slip has definitions from the fields of transportation,clothing,nautical,botany,geology
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[ verb ] move stealthily

Synonyms

steal

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 .

Related terms

move elapse slip_away stealth skid

2
[ 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

insert

3
[ verb ] move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner

Synonyms

slide slue slew skid

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 .

4
[ 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

blunder

5
[ 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 .

Related terms

worsen lapse slump

6
[ 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 .

Related terms

escape elapse slip_away

7
[ noun ] a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.

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

mistake freudian_slip stumble

8
[ verb ] to make a mistake or be incorrect

Synonyms

err mistake

Used in print

(Thomas Anderson, Here Comes Pete Now....)

But it was not easy for him and he often slipped .

9
[ noun ] artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material

Synonyms

strip

10
[ noun ] a small sheet of paper

Synonyms

slip_of_paper

Examples

"a receipt slip"

Related terms

sheet

11
[ noun ] a slippery smoothness

Examples

"he could feel the slickness of the tiller"

Related terms

smoothness slick

12
[ noun ] an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall

Synonyms

trip

Examples

"he blamed his slip on the ice" "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills"

Related terms

mishap spill trip

13
[ noun ] an unexpected slide

Synonyms

sideslip skid

Related terms

slide skid skid dislocate

14
[ noun ] (transportation) a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air

Synonyms

sideslip

Related terms

flight_maneuver

15
[ verb ] pass on stealthily

Synonyms

sneak

Examples

"He slipped me the key when nobody was looking"

Related terms

pass

16
[ noun ] a young and slender person

Examples

"he's a mere slip of a lad"

Related terms

young_person

17
[ verb ] move out of position

Examples

"dislocate joints" "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically"

18
[ verb ] pass out of one's memory

Synonyms

slip_one's_mind

Related terms

forget forget

19
[ noun ] (nautical) a place where a craft can be made fast

Synonyms

moorage berth mooring

Related terms

anchorage berth moor

20
[ noun ] (botany) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting

Synonyms

cutting

Related terms

stalk quickset

21
[ noun ] (geology) potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics

Related terms

potter's_clay

22
[ noun ] (clothing) a woman's sleeveless undergarment

Related terms

undergarment strap

23
[ noun ] bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow

Examples

"the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase"

Related terms

bed_linen

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[ noun ] the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)

Synonyms

eluding elusion

Related terms

evasion elude

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