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 and divides as sli-de-way under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.