different between scoot vs slide

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sku?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Norse skjóta (“to shoot”), or perhaps related to Middle English scottlynge (“moving one's feet quickly, scampering”, literally “scuttling”), see scuddle, scuttle.

Noun

scoot (plural scoots)

1. (slang) A dollar.
2. (slang) a scooter.
3. A sideways shuffling or sliding motion.

Verb

scoot (third-person singular simple present scoots, present participle scooting, simple past and past participle scooted)

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (intransitive) To walk fast; to go quickly; to run away hastily.

   They scooted over to the window.

2. (intransitive) To ride on a scooter.
3. (of an animal) To move with the forelegs while sitting, so that the floor rubs against its rear end.

   The dog was scooting all over our new carpet.
4. (intransitive) To move sideways (especially along a seat for multiple people), usually to make room for someone else (to sit, stand, etc.).

   Do you mind scooting a bit to the left?

5. (transitive) To dispatch someone or something at speed.
   • 1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet, Prout's Lovely Black Eye

     He scooted us out of the study and turned off the light […]

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:scoot.

Derived terms

• scoot over

Translations

Etymology 2

Variant of shoot.

Verb

scoot (third-person singular simple present scoots, present participle scooting, simple past and past participle scooted)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To squirt.

Noun

scoot (plural scoots)

1. (Scotland) A sudden flow of water; a squirt.

Anagrams

• Cotos, Scoto-, coost, coots, costo-, cotso, scoto-, tocos

English

Etymology

From Middle English sliden, from Old English sl?dan (“to slide”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?dan? (“to slide, glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sléyd?-e-ti, from *sleyd?- (“slippery”). Cognate with Old High German sl?tan (“to slide”) (whence German schlittern), Middle Low German sl?den (“to slide”), Middle Dutch sl?den (“to slide”) (whence Dutch slijderen, frequentative of now obsolete slijden), Vedic Sanskrit ??????? (srédhati, “to err, blunder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sla?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Verb

slide (third-person singular simple present slides, present participle sliding, simple past slid, past participle slid or (archaic) slidden)

1. (ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface

2. (intransitive) To move on a low-friction surface.
   • c. 1685, Edmund Waller, Of the Invasion and Defeat of the Turks

     They bathe in summer, and in winter slide.

3. (intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.

4. (intransitive) To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.

5. (transitive) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To pass inadvertently.
7. (intransitive) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
   • 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy

     Ages shall slide away without perceiving.
8. (music) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cessation of sound.
9. (regional) To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.

   Synonyms: toboggan, sled

Derived terms

• aslide
• let slide

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (suraido)

Translations

Noun

slide (plural slides)

1. An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.

2. A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
3. The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.

4. An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
5. A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
6. The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
7. A lever that can be moved in two directions.
8. A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
9. (photography) A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
10. (by extension, computing) A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.

11. (sciences) A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.
12. (baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
13. (music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
14. (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
15. (geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.

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16. (music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
17. (phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
18. A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
19. (clothing) A shoe that is backless and open-toed.
20. (speech therapy) A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.
21. (vulgar slang) a promiscuous woman, slut

Synonyms

• (item of play equipment): slippery dip
• (inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity): chute
• (mechanism of a part which slides on or against a guide): runner

Hyponyms

• helter-skelter

Derived terms

• (transparent plate bearing an image): slide projector, slide viewer

Descendants

• ? Czech: slajd
• ? Japanese: ???? (suraido)
• ? Portuguese: slide

Translations

Anagrams

• Diels, Seidl, delis, idles, isled, leids, sidle, siled, sleid

Danish

Etymology

from Old Norse slíta, from Proto-Germanic *sl?tan?, cognate with Swedish slita, English slit, German schleißen, Dutch slijten,

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sli?ð?]

Verb

slide (imperative slid, infinitive at slide, present tense slider, past tense sled, perfect tense har slidt)

1. labour; work hard
2. chafe

Inflection

Middle English

Verb

slide

1. Alternative form of sliden

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English slide.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /iz.?laj.d??i/, /?slajd??/, /?zlajd??/, /?slajd/

Noun

slide m (plural slides)

1. slide (transparent image for projecting)

   Synonyms: transparência, diapositivo

2. slide (a frame in a slideshow)
3. (music) slide (device for playing slide guitar)
4. (music) slide (guitar technique where the player moves finger up or down the fretboard)