different between piste vs slush

English

Etymology

From French piste.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st, -i?st

Noun

piste (plural pistes)

1. (skiing) A downhill trail.
2. (fencing) The field of play of a fencing match.
3. (archaic) The track left by somebody riding a horse.

Translations

Anagrams

• IP set, piets, septi-, spite, stipe

Dutch

Etymology 1

From French piste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pist?/

Noun

piste f (plural pistes, diminutive pistetje n)

1. (skiing) piste
2. (circus) circus ring
3. (Belgium) trail, track

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?st?/

Verb

piste

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of pissen

Finnish

Etymology

pistää +? -e. Originally a synonym of pisto (“sting; prick, puncture”). First used to mean "period, full stop, dot" by Gustaf Renvall and "point" in geometry by Wolmar Schildt; other meanings derive from those two.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?piste?/, [?pis?t?e?(?)]
• Rhymes: -iste
• Syllabification: pis?te

Noun

piste

1. (typography) point, dot, full stop, period
2. (mathematics) point (zero-dimensional object)
3. point (particular location)
4. point (something tiny)
5. point (mark or stroke above a letter)
6. point (unit of scoring)

   Synonyms: (colloquial) pojo, (colloquial) pinna

7. (typography) point (unit of font size or spacing)

Declension

Derived terms

• pisteyttää

Compounds

Related terms

Anagrams

• pesit, pesti, petsi, tepsi

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pist/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian pista, variant of pesta (“footprint”).

Noun

piste f (plural pistes)

1. track or trail (left by an animal or person)
2. track (road or other similar beaten path)

3. (figuratively) lead, hint (e.g. in a police investigation)

4. (aviation) runway

5. (music) track (on a recording)
6. racecourse
7. ring in a circus
8. floor (various activities such as dancing, skating, or fencing)

9. (skiing) piste

Derived terms

• brouiller les pistes
• piste courte
• piste cyclable
• piste de danse

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

piste

1. inflection of pister:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “piste” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iste

Noun

piste f

1. plural of pista

Anagrams

• pesti

Latin

Participle

piste

1. vocative masculine singular of pistus

References

• piste in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Lithuanian

Participle

piste

1. "manner of action" b?dinys participle of pisti.

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pist?/

Noun

piste m

1. plural of pisto

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Compare Persian ????? (peste).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?s?t?/

Noun

piste f (Arabic spelling ?????)

1. pistachio

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “piste”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• pissa, pisset

Verb

piste

1. simple past of pisse

English

Etymology

Most likely imitative; related to slosh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

slush (usually uncountable, plural slushes)

1. Half-melted snow or ice.

   As the skiing season drew to an end, there was nothing but slush left on the piste.

2. Liquid mud or mire.
3. Flavored shaved ice served as a drink.
4. A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
5. The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
6. (engineering) A mixture of white lead and lime, used as a paint to prevent oxidation.
7. (publishing) Unsolicited manuscripts, as in slush pile.

Synonyms

• (snow): slush ice
• (flavored shaved ice served as a drink): slushy, slushie, slurpee, Slurpee, slush puppy, Slush Puppie

Derived terms

• slushy
• slush fund
• slush puppy (non-alcoholic)
• Slush Puppy (alcoholic drink)
• slushbreaker

Translations

Verb

slush (third-person singular simple present slushes, present participle slushing, simple past and past participle slushed)

1. To smear with slushy liquid or grease.
2. To slosh or splash; to move as, or through, a slushy or liquid substance.
3. To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.

Derived terms

• slusher
• slush up

Anagrams

• shuls

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?slus/, [?s?lus?]
• IPA^(key): /?slu?/, [?s?lu?]

Noun

slush

1. slush (icy drink)

Declension

Synonyms

• jäähilejuoma