slideway

Other forms of slideway

plural

slideways·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about slideway

What does slideway mean?

slideway means "sloping channel through which things can descend".

How many syllables are in slideway?

slideway has 3 syllables: sli-de-way. The stress falls on "sli".

What is another word for slideway?

Close synonyms include chute, slide, sloping trough. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slideway a common word?

slideway is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.