Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A slip or twig taken from the side; an oblique offshoot: hence, an unacknowledged or illegitimate child.
- n. A division at the side of the stage of a theater, where the scenery is slipped off and on.
- n. The tendency of the rear or driving pair of wheels of a smooth-tired motor-vehicle to slip sidewise when the surface of the roadway is coated with a thin film of slippery mud. It occurs also on dirt roads when the mud has a certain consistency and the surface is crowned or high in the middle. When driving recklessly at high speed, side-slip is an occasion for dangerous accident, since the vehicle is for an instant, or until the wheels bite again, practically unmanageable. Many forms of tires to correct this evil have been proposed and patented.
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- v. slide sideways through the air in a downward direction in an airplane along an inclined lateral axis
- n. a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- n. an unexpected slide
Examples
“Monticellis would come again now that it was the fashion for a picture to be anything except a picture; and the future of Johns, with a side-slip into Buxton Knights.”
“Anderson was to side-slip to the right until he touched the left of Hoke, whose division would be in position before daylight.”
“On the bloody front where Lee's lieutenants had faced Grant for almost a fortnight it was apparent by the morning of May 21 that the Federals had undertaken another side-slip.”
“The whole operation, in fact, could be a swift side-slip to the right.”
“Unless met as Grant's flank march of May 7 was, the side-slip might put the Federals between Lee's army and Richmond.”
“The attenuated air gave no firm support to the wings, and the least tilt developed into side-slip, while she seemed sluggish on her controls.”
“The TR uses the Greek word paratoma, which refers to "a side-slip, lapse, deviation, faults" (Strong's Exhaustive Concordance).”
“Smith stared after the - rapidly disappearing figure and hoped to God that he didn't side-slip his way right over the edge of the precipice.”
“His left-hand cords were pulled too far down, air was spilling from the parachute, and, still swaying madly, he was side-slipping to his left faster than any man Smith had ever seen side-slip a parachute before.”
“Sometimes pilots have come out of a low cloud to find themselves dangerously close to the earth and in an awkward position, perhaps in a steep bank, a side-slip, or even in the terrifying nose-dive, and they have not had time to right themselves before crashing to earth.”
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