sled
See also: sleď
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English sledde, from Middle Dutch sledde or Middle Low German sledde (compare Dutch slee, slede, Low German Sleden), from Proto-Germanic *slidô (compare Saterland Frisian sliede, German Schlitten, Norwegian slede). Related to slide.
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ɛd
NounEdit
sled (plural sleds)
- A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice. (A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "sleigh" is.)
- The child zoomed down the hill on his sled.
- (US) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice. (contrast "sleigh", which is larger)
- "Mush!" he yelled at the dogs pulling the sled.
- (slang) A snowmobile.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
sledge — see sledge
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VerbEdit
sled (third-person singular simple present sleds, present participle sledding, simple past and past participle sledded)
- To ride a sled.
AnagramsEdit
CzechEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Czech footprint, Proto-Slavic *slědъ (“rail, sledge runner”), Proto-Indo-European *h₃sleidʰ (“slide”).[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sled m inan
- sequence, succession
- 2012, Radomír Čížek, Velké oživení, Praha: Grada Publishing, translation of The Great Reflation by J. Anthony Boeckh, →ISBN, page 15:
- Investoři musejí pochopit, že zde existuje určitý propojený sled událostí, které vedou k potenciální katastrofě.
- It is critical for investors to understand that there is a linked sequence of events that is leading to a potential disaster.
- Investoři musejí pochopit, že zde existuje určitý propojený sled událostí, které vedou k potenciální katastrofě.
DeclensionEdit
Declension
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from sled
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- sled in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- sled in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989