noun
definition
A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
definition
Mud, slime.
Examples of slip in a Sentence
We all are, as if we let him slip away.
Then he could slip out unnoticed.
It was some sort of trick to get her to slip up.
She tried to slip by quietly, but he glanced up as she passed.
I tried frantically to slip out of my blunder.
Feel free to slip one on for other activities.
She certainly wasn't going to slip him any herbs.
The opportunity was allowed to slip by.
Spirulina sp. (From Engler and Prantl, Pflanzenfamilien, by permission of Wilhelm Engelman.) or because of the decay of a cell, becomes interrupted by breaking, and the free ends slip past one another.
In the Roman period a larger stone was used, with a rectangular slab (96) sliding on it, in which a long trough held the grain and let it slip out below for grinding.
The thin watery "slip" or slurry flows into large settling tanks ("backs") where the solids in suspension are deposited; the water is drawn off, leaving behind an intimate mixture of chalk and clay in the form of a wet paste.
On the 19th of March 1286 Alexander died, in consequence of a slip made by his horse on a cliff near Kinghorn during a night ride.
The negotiations for the Leicester marriage were prolonged till March 1565, when Elizabeth had let slip on Mary Henry Darnley (the young son of Lennox, who himself had been allowed to return to Scotland), and at the same time made it clear that she had never been honest in offering Leicester.
He himself did not take the field, but remained in Medina with the exception of his visit to Syria in 638; he never, however, suffered the reins to slip from his grasp, so powerful was the influence of his personality and the Moslem community of feeling.
Had Ibrahim marched at once against Kufa he might have crushed Mansur, but he let slip the opportunity.
There is a floating dock to lift 2000 tons, and at Stockton there is a patent slip to take large vessels for repair.
Hence if F is the force by which the slip BB is pulled towards AA, F =d b T ab =Ta,..
Nearly half of the power of the engines was lost in the screw slip. This showed that the diameter of the screws was not great enough; it should have been at least 22 ft.
It possesses a floating dock capable of lifting a vessel of 850o tons, a floating workshop, a patent slip for small craft, hydraulic cranes, &c. The minimum depth alongside the quays at low water is 23 ft., increased at places to over 30 ft.
Quays and a slip for launching vessels have been constructed.
Against this disk press two springs which are connected together at each revolution by the contact of the slip at an assigned instant during the phase of the alternating current.
Most stations had one of the Guardians—or Naturals—capable of Traveling great distances the way he did, by using magic to slip through space and time and end up elsewhere.
Feeling rather peckish I thought I'd slip inside and treat myself to a slap up meal.
Slip on a t-shirt, slap on a hat and slop on the sun lotion.
At this moment King Henry thought it necessary to nterfere; if he let more time slip away, Earl Richard would ecome a powerful king and forget his English allegiance.
By 1374 little was left of the great possessions which the English had held beyond the Channel save Calais, and the coast slip from Bordeaux to Bayonne, which formed the only loyal part of the duchy of Guienne.
As he grew older he let the power slip into their hands, as it was they who were mainly responsible for the truce of 1444.
At Ferrybank, on the Kilkenny side of the river, there is a shipbuilding yard with patent slip and graving dock.
How Herodotus came to think that the bird was like an eagle is quite unexplained; perhaps this is merely a slip of memory.
In the fore-leg the tendon of this muscle (which corresponds with the extensor minimi digiti of man) receives a slip from that of the principal extensor, and is inserted into the first phalanx.
Especially powerful achromatic condensers are really only magnified microscope objectives, with the difference that they are not corrected for the thickness of the cover slip, but for the thickness of the glass on which the object is placed.
In the point-by-point method the shaft of an alternator, or an alternating current motor driven in step with it, is furnished with an insulating disk having a metallic slip inserted in its edge.
In the Hospitalier ondograph, 1 a synchronous electric motor driven in step with the periodic current in the circuit being tested drives a cylinder of insulating material having a metallic slip let into its edge.
We held closed door meetings cautioning one another against the slightest slip that might cause someone to develop the slimmest suspicion about our true activities.
You, dear sir or madam, are making mistakes while I would never slip so blatantly.
Call it a macho thing, but this time I'm not going to screw up and slip.
He struggled for some slip of discipline, but there was something about this woman that drove him mad.
The concept of handing their cash into a bank or building society in exchange for a slip of paper may seem alien to them.
A state television announcer let slip the news that ' catastrophic moods ' had seized hold of the campaign staff.
The compression which formed the anticline will have been accompanied by flexural slip which would have " planed off " any bottom structures.
A nomadic army of horse archers might slip away to turn up somewhere else.
Industrial disease asbestosis Accident in a public place Accident caused by a product purchased Slip, trip or fall Any other type of accident.
He was a hard hitting right-hand batsman, who fielded at slip.
A lower order right-hand batsman and a right-hand fast round-arm bowler who fielded mostly at point or slip.
They specialize in smart traditional styles including brogues, formal lace ups and slip ons, and styles with toe caps.
There weren't many better slip catchers, either.
For this reason, we prefer to tie the cystic duct using a catgut Roeder external slip knot.
Hoggard pops Malinga to slip off the arm, and the drunken clowns in the crowd are screaming no-ball every time he bowls.
Use one request slip per item as even consecutive reference numbers may not be stored consecutively on our shelves.
We have been concerned about this as very large and sometimes controversial buildings slip through without committee approval.