slipstream
/ˈslɪp.stɹiːm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The airflow over a propeller-driven aircraft generated by the motion of its propeller(s).
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.
Uncountable
verb
To take advantage of the suction produced by a slipstream by travelling immediately behind the slipstream generator.
verb
To incorporate additional software (such as patches) into an existing installer.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Monza was the seventh race in a row at which Leclerc had out-qualified Vettel. There were extenuating circumstances this time - Vettel did not have a slipstream on his first lap and the farcical end to qualifying prevented him doing another - but a clear pattern is emerging."
- "The Republicans, who in fact quintessentially represent what I understand to be private and special interests of a narrow economic kind, have nevertheless managed, flying in the slipstream of Ronald Reagan's rhetoric, to look like the true guardians of the nation's public interest."
- "Slipstream is not simply a mixture of fantasy and realism, but something which lies between or even beyond the two."
- "Although dangerous, over-the-road truck drivers sometimes slipstream with each other to save fuel."
- "You do this by slipstreaming the updates into the distribution folder."
- "A better solution is to create a bootable Windows XP installation CD slipstreamed with the current service pack..."