Atlas vs skid

Atlas

noun
  • A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line. 

name
  • The SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series. 

  • A subgroup of the Berber languages. 

  • A surname. 

  • A moon of Saturn. 

  • A crater in the last quadrant of the moon. 

  • The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis. 

  • A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri. 

skid

noun
  • A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels. 

  • A runner of a sled. 

  • (also losing skid) A losing streak. 

  • Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it when handling cargo. 

  • A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet. 

  • One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel. 

  • A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input. 

  • A stepchild. 

  • A script kiddie. 

  • A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose. 

  • An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car. 

  • A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill. 

verb
  • To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing. 

  • To protect or support with a skid or skids. 

  • To cause to move on skids. 

  • To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid. 

  • (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have. 

  • To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning. 

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