slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slĭp
ipa: /slɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: slips
Etymology: From Middle English slippen, probably from Middle Low German slippen, from Old Saxon *slippian, from Proto-West Germanic *slippjan, from Proto-Germanic *slipjaną (“to glide”), an iterative form of *slīpaną (“to slip, slide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyb- (“slimy; to slide”). Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”), or related to Proto-Germanic *slībaną (“to split”); related to Old English slipor (“slippery”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian slipje (“to slip”), Dutch slippen (“to slip”), German Low German slippen.
Senses: examples: text: I had a slip on the ice and bruised my hip.
glosses: An act or instance of slipping.
glosses: A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
glosses: A slipdress.
examples: text: a slip of the tongue
text: This good man's slip mended his pace to martyrdom.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
text: In quoting this passage I have taken the liberty to correct a grammatical slip.
ref: 1906, James George Frazer, Attis, Otis, Osiris, volume 1, page 295:
glosses: A mistake or error.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
glosses: A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A slipway.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
examples: text: He took a screamer at slip.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
glosses: A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
examples: text: We stalked over the extensive plains with Killbuck and Lena in the slips, in search of deer.
ref: 1852, Samuel Baker, The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon:
glosses: A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
examples: text: He gave the warden the slip and escaped from the prison.
text: This morning I made a slip from the Office to White Hall.
ref: 1669 February 14 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 4th, 1668–1669”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume (please specify |volume=I to X), London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893–1899, →OCLC:
glosses: An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Clipping of sideslip.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A portion of the columns of a newspaper, etc., struck off by itself; a proof from a column of type when set up and in the galley.
glosses: A child's pinafore.
examples: text: a pillow slip
text: the slip or sheath of a sword
glosses: An outside covering or case.
examples: text: ROMEO:[…]Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you?
MERCUTIO:The slip, sir, the slip. Can you not conceive?
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
glosses: A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.
examples: text: the Grindstone, commonly called Slipp, is used to the same purpose in dying of Silks.
ref: 1667, William Petty, An apparatus to the history of the common practices of dying:
glosses: Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
glosses: A particular quantity of yarn.
glosses: A narrow passage between buildings.
examples: text: The gallery contains nine rows of seats, besides those in the slips.
ref: 1826, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Theatres of London, page 65:
glosses: Either side of the gallery in a theater.
glosses: A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
glosses: A fish, the sole.
examples: text: After about a dozen competitions someone suggested that a slip should be sent round to those who applied for it, containing in full the clues of all prizewinners and of those highly commended (there was only room for the first prizewinner’s clue in the paper).
ref: 1966, Ximenes, Ximenes On The Art Of The Crossword:
text: Manley is also a regular at the top of the Azed slip. As the two men talked, they quoted memorable clues as if they were lines of poetry.
ref: 2009 June 23, Dean Olsher, From Square One: A Meditation, with Digressions, on Crosswords, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: Over the years I have given my views several times on this issue, both in the slips and in my 2006 book A-Z of Crosswords, but it will do no harm to repeat them yet again.
ref: 2013 March 25, Jonathan Crowther, “Azed slip No 2,126”, in The Guardian:
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
Synonyms: sense: a mistake
word: blooper
sense: a mistake
word: blunder
sense: a mistake
word: boo-boo
sense: a mistake
word: defect
sense: a mistake
word: error
sense: a mistake
word: fault
sense: a mistake
word: faux pas
sense: a mistake
word: fluff
sense: a mistake
word: gaffe
sense: a mistake
word: lapse
sense: a mistake
word: mistake
sense: a mistake
word: stumble
sense: a mistake
word: thinko
sense: return to previous behaviour
word: lapse
Hyponyms: sense: undergarment
word: full slip
sense: undergarment
word: waist slip
Derived terms: Albany slip
antislip
anti-slip
bank slip
blue slip
brick slip
buck slip
cover slip
fly slip
forward slip
Freudian slip
give someone the slip
green slip
half slip
incontinence slip
leg slip
let slip
let something slip
limited-slip differential
line slip
long-slip
mag-slip
mag slip
mouse slip
nip-slip
nip slip
nonslip
non-slip
off-slip
on-slip
pay-in slip
payslip
permission slip
psychological slip
route slip
routing slip
side-slip
sideslip
slip-and-slide
slip and slide
slip away
slip back
slip back to old ways
slip box
slip by
slip-case
slip case
slip coach
slip-cueing
slip dock
slip down
slip dress
slip face
slip-halter
slip in
slip into
slip into something more comfortable
slip it to
slip knot
slip lane
slip noose
slip off
slip off someone's tongue
slip of the pen
slip of the tongue
slip-on
slip one past
slip one's mind
slip one's wind
slip opinion
slip out
slippage
slip past
slipped disc
slippery
slip rail
slip ring
slip road
slips and capture
slip sheet
slip sheet paper
slipshod
slip someone a length
slip someone's mind
slip steward
slip stitch
slip the cable
slip through
slip through one's fingers
slip through someone's fingers
slip through the cracks
slip through the net
slip under
slip under the radar
slip-up
slip up, slip-up
slype
snowslip
stick-slip
strike-slip fault
tardy slip
there's many a slip between the cup and the lip
there's many a slip twixt cup and lip
there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip
trip slip
two slips of latinum
voting slip