What's the difference between sled and slid?

Sled


Definition:

  • (n.) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice; -- in England called sledge.
  • (n.) A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice.
  • (v. t.) To convey or transport on a sled; as, to sled wood or timber.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The two completely different total knee-endoprostheses (hinge type and sled or runner type) have been compared concerning construction and ability for take up or transmission of forces and moments.
  • (2) In order to assess the effect of extravestibular gravity receptors on perception and control of body position against that of the otoliths, the subject (S) is exposed to gravitoinertial forces along the spinal (Z) axis on a tiltable board and on a sled centrifuge.
  • (3) Eighteen young male subjects with NAMRL sled test experience to 15 G in --Gx acceleration were measured for physical characteristics of the head and neck and general body anthropometry.
  • (4) A Teflon sled, Proplast malar implant and ptosis correction acheived the desired results.
  • (5) No difference in risk of injury was found regarding the type of sled used, the number of children, or their position on the sled or for those children with a history of prior sledding experience.
  • (6) A state law enforcement agency, SLED, has taken over the investigation into the shooting along with the Justice Department and FBI.
  • (7) Each year, the winning team takes a special trip with him: this year’s winners will go dog-sledding on a glacier in Iceland; when Reilly and the DeAngeluses won in 2012, their team spent a weekend in a Scottish castle.
  • (8) These burs were tested utilizing custom-built equipment consisting of a frictionless air sled to which the Macor substrate was attached.
  • (9) In February he will leave northern Canada to trek more than 1,000km to the North Pole; what's different this time is that he is travelling with two fellow polar explorers, his friends Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley, and they will be dragging with them not just food and repair kits but 100kg sleds each, laden with equipment to take up to 12m readings of the depth and density of snow and ice beneath their feet.
  • (10) Gross examination revealed that the sleds were secured in position until well encapsulated.
  • (11) Over 150 Navy enlisted men have been subjected to impact acceleration on a sled propelled by a nitrogen-powered horizontal accelerator.
  • (12) By a systematic analysis of the so called sled-prostheses is to be shown to differantiate between real sled-prostheses with rotation and sliding mobility and pseudo-sled-prostheses (better rotation-segment-prostheses).
  • (13) When the MAbs produced against CDV were tested, 37 of 39 antibodies reacted with a virus isolated from a sled dog diseased in an outbreak of distemper in Greenland prior to the epizootic among seals in the North Sea.
  • (14) Some were mounted in a rearward firing sled; others were placed in standard cars during collisions.
  • (15) David Cameron was a master stunt-artist: the husky-sledding in the Arctic circle, the bicycle-riding to Westminster.
  • (16) They had provisions for several more weeks on the ice, the first leg of a year-long expedition (named "180 Degrees") from geomagnetic north pole to geomagnetic south pole by dog sledding, sailing and cycling.
  • (17) So, even after a massive snow fall, we don’t get much time to enjoy its pleasures – digging out igloos once the storm has passed, pretending we’re Laura Ingalls Wilder and trying to make maple candy in the snow , sledding down that one big hill.
  • (18) Coming from the position of being a high Tory with great personal wealth and aristocratic family ties, Cameron needed to ride a husky sled across a glacier and go on about global warming to persuade people he was half-way normal.
  • (19) Posterior fixation of the sled may be difficult, as the sled tends to migrate anteriorly.
  • (20) A canine distemper outbreak in a highly susceptible sled dog population of Northern Greenland was recognized in the beginning of January 1988.

Slid


Definition:

  • () imp. & p. p. of Slide.
  • (imp.) of Slide
  • () of Slide

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I remember the way I slid sideways through rows of desks, my arms crossed over my chest.
  • (2) The unemployment rate among 16- to 24-year-olds slid to 19.3%, from 20.7% in the three months to March.
  • (3) Gerard Piqué slid in and inexplicably handled Marcelo’s cross.
  • (4) The defender took a quick throw-in on the right wing in the 17th minute back to Hugo Lloris and, after a comical exchange of passes with the Tottenham goalkeeper, he inadvertently slid the ball back inside to Lee Cattermole, who finished precisely into the bottom corner from 25 yards out.
  • (5) Then Wigan were level, as Sammon slid between two West Ham defenders to turn home his shot, and all the desire and inspiration drained from Grant's side.
  • (6) A Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman, Kathleen Bergen, said the CRJ2 aircraft had landed safely and was turning off the runway on to a taxiway when it slid into the snow.
  • (7) We trained just a little bit, but Ramires slid and has a muscular injury.
  • (8) The prosthetic testicle is inserted through an inguinal incision and slid into the scrotum.
  • (9) After picking up an early booking, Ramos spent the rest of the match apparently chasing another, though it took until the 84th minute for Alejandro Hernández to finally reach to his pocket and and show the second yellow, when Ramos needlessly slid through the back of Luis Suárez.
  • (10) The graft is slid under this bridge, placed onto the roughened surface of the carpus and pushed under the operculum raised at the base of the 2nd and 3rd metacarpals.
  • (11) In the 10.40m column, the snails slid downward to a depth of 4m or descended suddenly all the way to the bottom.
  • (12) Interestingly, honest individuals were initially shielded from taking antisocial decisions – but, with time, even they slid down the slippery, corrupting slope of power.
  • (13) Cameron Borthwick-Jackson had played Costa onside and slid in desperately to try and intercept, only for his tackle to take the ball away from an on-rushing De Gea and neatly into the striker’s path.
  • (14) The fighting has often slid into horror and depravity over the past 22 months.
  • (15) So he slid farther forward and got hold of Rob's waist and pulled him the rest of the way out.
  • (16) Abe says he wants to raise the number of women in the workforce to revive the economy, which has slid back into recession for the fifth time in seven years.
  • (17) He's staying at Stoke, who presumably wanted a bit more than the £5m that was slid across the table by QPR suits.
  • (18) Giggs and Bardsley slid in, with the United man winning the race but not preventing a goal.
  • (19) Ronald Koeman accused Sadio Mané and Victor Wanyama of “lacking focus” and letting the club down as Saints slid further down the table with a fourth consecutive away defeat.
  • (20) The study showed that the number of PFCs by the Cunningham slid was greater than that observed by the gel technique of Trump at the same lymphocyte concentration.

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