slip
has definitions from the fields of transportation,clothing,nautical,botany,geology
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[ verb ] move stealthily
Synonyms Examples "The ship slipped away in the darkness" Used in print (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)Stevie was constantly slipping into the church . (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)Then he slipped and went_down on his hands and knees in the melting snow . (Robert L. Duncan, The Voice of Strangers....)He beckoned to her from the door and she slipped quietly outside . (Whit Masterson, Evil Come, Evil Go....)And once Bake slipped in , pale and drawn , last night 's liquor still on his breath with some of today 's added to_it . |
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[ verb ] insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
Examples "He slipped some money into the waiter's hand" Used in print (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)No_one told_on Ludie , not even when he slipped live grasshoppers into the mite-box . (Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)The light supper over , Claire went to him and , slipping an arm about his shoulder , sat on his knee . Related terms |
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[ verb ] move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
Examples "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" Used in print (The Family Fallout Shelter. Office of Civil and Defence...)The first one or two roof boards ( marked `` E '' in fig. 6 ) are slipped into place across the roof beams , from outside the shelter . (Breni James, Nights of the Kill....)Killpath leaned forward ; his foot slipped off the chair and he put it back again , frowning now . |
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[ noun ] a socially awkward or tactless act
Used in print (Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)Journalism supplies us with an endless run of such slips . Readers of the Reader_'s_Digest are familiar_with such items which often appear in its lists of verbal slips , like the ad in a California paper that advertised `` House for rent . This slip is so-called because its semi ambiguous English always seems to refer to a person 's anatomy but never quite means what it seems to say . It wit is a misnomer because it covers slips as_well as wit . Related terms |
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[ verb ] get worse
Examples "My grades are slipping" Used in print (William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)According_to his own testimony , he never actually saw things as shaped but only as generally amorphous `` blots '' of color of a more_or_less indefinite size ; at their edges they slipped pretty_much out_of_focus altogether . |
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[ verb ] move smoothly and easily
Used in print (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)Noticing Russell 's horse in_front_of the long log building , he assumed his friend had slipped inside and would be able to put_up a good fight , so he began working his way down the ditch to join him . |
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[ noun ] a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
Synonyms Used in print (Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)I am usually filled with an uneasiness that through some unwitting slip all hell may break_loose . Related terms |
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[ verb ] to make a mistake or be incorrect
Used in print (Thomas Anderson, Here Comes Pete Now....)But it was not easy for him and he often slipped . Related terms misjudge stumble misremember fall_for stumble mistake erroneousness errancy |
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[ noun ] a small sheet of paper
Synonyms Examples "a receipt slip" Related terms |
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[ noun ] a slippery smoothness
Synonyms Examples "he could feel the slickness of the tiller" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (transportation) a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
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[ verb ] move out of position
Examples "dislocate joints" "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (geology) potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
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[ noun ] bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
Synonyms Examples "the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase" Related terms |
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