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Slip   /slɪp/   Listen
Slip

verb
(past & past part. slipped; pres. part. slipping)
1.
Move stealthily.  Synonym: steal.
2.
Insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly.
3.
Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner.  Synonyms: skid, slew, slide, slue.
4.
Get worse.  Synonyms: drop away, drop off, fall away.
5.
Move smoothly and easily.  "Water slipped from the polished marble"
6.
To make a mistake or be incorrect.  Synonyms: err, mistake.
7.
Pass on stealthily.  Synonym: sneak.
8.
Move easily.
9.
Cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion.
10.
Pass out of one's memory.  Synonym: slip one's mind.
11.
Move out of position.  Synonyms: dislocate, luxate, splay.  "The artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically"
noun
1.
A socially awkward or tactless act.  Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, solecism.
2.
A minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc..  Synonyms: miscue, parapraxis, slip-up.
3.
Potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics.
4.
A part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting.  Synonym: cutting.
5.
A young and slender person.
6.
A place where a craft can be made fast.  Synonyms: berth, moorage, mooring.
7.
An accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall.  Synonym: trip.  "The jolt caused many slips and a few spills"
8.
A slippery smoothness.  Synonyms: slick, slickness, slipperiness.
9.
Artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material.  Synonym: strip.
10.
A small sheet of paper.  Synonym: slip of paper.
11.
A woman's sleeveless undergarment.  Synonyms: chemise, shift, shimmy, teddy.
12.
Bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow.  Synonyms: case, pillow slip, pillowcase.
13.
An unexpected slide.  Synonyms: sideslip, skid.
14.
A flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air.  Synonym: sideslip.
15.
The act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning).  Synonyms: eluding, elusion.



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"Slip" Quotes from Famous Books



... slumber heavily. Virginie went. Pierre's heart beat fast. He was sure his cousin would try to intercept her; but how, he could not imagine. He longed to run out and see the catastrophe,—but he had let the moment slip; he was also afraid of reawakening his mother to her unusual state of ...
— My Lady Ludlow • Elizabeth Gaskell
... sleeve, so that it doesn't slip down!" he said with a glance up at Silla; he took her to be a member ...
— One of Life's Slaves • Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie
... him, shaking him till he could only cling to the lamp-post for support till it was over, and then slip down in a ...
— Wikkey - A Scrap • YAM
... He handed the slip to his chief, who ran his eye over the message. The words employed were few, but a journalist of McMurtrie's experience instinctively covered the bare bones with a respectable integument, and clothed this with a quite picturesque raiment by force ...
— Round the World in Seven Days • Herbert Strang
... of a lever, N. Plate 2. Fig. 7. with a wheel at one end of it, be hinged to the post of the frame, by means of a gudgeon driven or screwed into the post. To prevent this lever from deviating sideways, let a slip of wood be connected with it by a nail, which shall be fast in the lever, but which moves freely in a hole in the rail. The other end of this slip must be fastened to a stake driven into the ground at three or four feet from the lever, at one side of it, and towards the end ...
— Practical Education, Volume II • Maria Edgeworth


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