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A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
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Mud, slime.
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A twig or shoot; a cutting.
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A descendant, a scion.
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A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
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She couldn't hurt a fly, young slip of a girl that she is.
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A long, thin piece of something.
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A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
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a salary slip
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(marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
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An act or instance of slipping.
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I had a slip on the ice and bruised my hip.
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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.
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A slipdress.
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A mistake or error.
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A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
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A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
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A slipway.
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A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
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He gave the warden the slip and escaped from the prison.
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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.
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A child's pinafore.
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An outside covering or case.
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a pillow slip
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A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.
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Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
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An aqueous suspension of minerals, usually clay, used, among other things, to stick workpieces together.
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A particular quantity of yarn.
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A narrow passage between buildings.
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A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
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A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
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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.
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The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
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A fish, the sole.
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To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
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To err.
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To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
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To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
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A bone may slip out of place.
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To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
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She thanked the porter and slipped a ten-dollar bill into his hand.
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To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
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To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
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Some errors slipped into the appendix.
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To move down; to slide.
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Profits have slipped over the past six months.
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To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
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To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
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To omit; to lose by negligence.
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To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
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to slip a piece of cloth or paper
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To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
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A horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar.
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To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
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To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
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The area of the field covered by fielders in the slip positions; the slip fielders collectively
Examples of slips in a Sentence
Slips in cuttings or embankments18 23.
The harbour admits vessels of all sizes and is provided with a pier and slips.
If the autograph of a work is not accessible, there is no means of distinguishing between the involuntary errors of a scribe and the involuntary errors- "slips of pen" - of an author.
When you open your mouth and something totally off the wall slips out.
In the top squares of the slips the ten digits are written, and each slip contains in its nine squares the first nine multiples of the digit which appears in the top square.
The slips are passed through an ordinary Wheatstone transmitter and actuate Wheatstone receiving apparatus which in turn controls a " Creed receiving perforator."
The propatagialis longus muscle is composed of slips from the deltoid, pectoral, biceps and cucullaris muscles.
The posterior patagium, the fold between trunk and inner surface of the upper arm, is stretched by the metapatagialis muscle, which is composed of slips from the serratus, superficialis, latissimus dorsi and the expansor secundariorum muscles.
All that do not happen to attach themselves to a bee of the genus Anthophora perish, but those that succeed in reaching the right host are carried to the nest, and as the bee lays an egg in the cell the triungulin slips off her body on to the egg, which floats on the surface of the honey.
Where, as in private herbaria, the specimens are not liable to be handled with great frequency, a stitch here and there round the stem, tied at the back of the sheet, or slips of paper passed over the stem through two slits in the sheet and attached with gum to its back, or simply strips of gummed paper laid across the stem, may be resorted to.
The inner harbour comprises the Cuyahoga, the old river bed, and connecting slips.
The most stirring episode in the history of the Peiraeus is the seizure of Munychia by Thrasybulus and the exiles from Phyle, and the consequent destruction of the "30 tyrants" in 404 B.C. The three chief arsenals of the Peiraeus were named Munychia, Zea and Cantharus, and they contained galley slips for 82, 196 and 94 slips respectively in the 4th century B.C.
Slips are specifically used with certain types of dresses.
The induction coil is carried upon the end of one portion of the test bar, and when this portion is suddenly drawn back the coil slips off and is pulled out of the field by an india-rubber spring.
Mort's dock, another large dry dock, is at Mort's Bay, Balmain, while there are five floating docks with a combined lifting power of 3895 tons, and the three patent slips in Mort's Bay can raise between them 3040 tons.
One of the few uses of crown-glass of this kind is the glass slides upon which microscopic specimens are mounted, as well as the thin glass slips with which such preparations are covered.
The metal slips are so placed that, as the disk revolves, the middle brush, connected to one terminal of the condenser C, is alternately put in conductive connexion with first one and then the other outside brush, which are joined respectively to the battery B and galvanometer G terminals.
The areas containing productive coal measures are usually known as coalfields or basins, within which coal occurs in more or less regular beds, also called seams or veins, which can often be followed over a considerable length of country without change of character, although, like all stratified rocks, their continuity may be interrupted by faults or dislocations, also known as slips, hitches, heaves or troubles.
The armature carries on its shaft a commutator made of silver slips, and the current is fed into the armature by means of brushes of silver wire.
The Latin stipendium (for stipipendium) is derived from slips, a gift, contribution (originally a heap of coins, stipare, to press; mass together) and pendere, to weigh out, pay.
The souls of members of the tribe who have died survive in these slips of wood, which are treasured up for long generations and repaired if they decay.
Editors of journals remove the slips of the pens of their contributors; editors of books, nowadays usually in footnotes, the similar lapses of their authors.
He also found that chickens that had been given meal moistened with quinine and placed upon glass slips banded black and yellow, afterwards refused to touch meal moistened with water and spread upon the same slips, although they had previously eaten it with readiness off plain coloured slips.
The spaces between the walls and the outer fence are called " slips."
The slips are also convenient as affording a variety of aspects, and thus helping to prolong the season of particular vegetable crops.
Belts of shrubbery may be placed round the slips outside the walls; and these may in many cases, or in certain parts, be of sufficient breadth to furnish pleasant retired promenades, at the same time that they serve to mask the formality of the walled gardens, and are made to harmonize with the picturesque scenery of the pleasure ground.
Edgings may also be formed of narrow slips of sandstone flag, slate, tiles or bricks.
Standard Fruit Trees should not be planted, if it can be avoided, in the borders of the kitchen garden, but in the outer slips, where they either may be allowed to attain their full size or may be kept dwarfed.
Propagate by slips, or by earthing up the old stems, the various pot-herbs.
Gather and dry herbs; also propagate these by slips and cuttings.
Propagate herbaceous and other plants that have gone out of flower, by means of cuttings and slips, especially those required for spring bedding; propagate also the various summer bedding plants increased by cuttings.
Propagate all sorts of herbaceous plants by rooted slips or suckers; take off layers of carnations, picotees and pansies.
His enemies watched for slips and failures; the physicians maintained that he had no degree, and insisted that he should give proof of his qualifications.
There is wharf accommodation on both banks of the river, a graving dock which can be used by vessels up to 5000 tons, and two patent slips which can take up ships of 1000 and 400 tons respectively.
The three entrances to the old and new harbours are sheltered by long and massive moles; and the whole complex of docks, building slips, machine shops, &c., forms the government dockyard, which is enclosed by a lofty wall with fourteen iron gates.
There are slips and shipbuilding yards, and a manufacture of sail-cloth.
The Latin MS. (Codex lxvii.) at Magdalen College, Oxford, is probably a copy of another Latin text, for it contains obvious slips.
There we are told that for purposes of divination certain signs were scratched on slips of wood from a fruit-bearing tree (including, no doubt, the beech; cp. book, German Buck, and Buchstabe, a letter of the alphabet); the slips were thrown down promiscuously on a white cloth, whence the expert picked them up at random and by them interpreted fate.
In these slips we have the origin of the Norse kefli, the Scots kaivel, which were and are still used as lots.
The principal docks are at Gothenburg, Stockholm, Malmo, Oskarshamn and Norrkoping, besides the naval docks at Karlskrona; and the principal ports where large vessels can be accommodated on slips are Malmo, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Karlskrona and Gefle.
There are also four building slips opposite the Apollo Bandar (landing-place) on the south-east side of the enclosure.
The accommodation for shipping includes two graving docks, two patent slips, &c. The entrance to the river is protected by two breakwaters named respectively the North Gare and South Gare.
To prevent being blamed by him or others for any disingenuity in not acknowledging my oversights or slips in the first edition, I believe it will not be amiss to print next after the old Praefatio ad Lectorem, the following account of this new Edition.
The pterygoids are delicate slender slips of bone attached to the hinder border of the palatines, and supported externally by, and generally welded with, the rough pterygoid plates of the alisphenoid, with no pterygoid fossa between.
He sat behind a low desk, with a few jottings on slips of paper, or textbooks marked on the margin, before him, and delivered an extemporaneous address, opening up the subject by partial glimpses, and with many anecdotes or familiar illustrations, till a complete idea of it was presented.
In this case the large vibrating mirror must be oscillated by a current from an alternator, on the shaft of which is a disk of nonconducting material with brass slips let into it and so arranged with contact brushes that in each period of the alternator a contact is made, charging say a condenser and discharging it through the oscillograph.
It was one of those Freudian slips that caused her to blush fiercely.
Yes, navy blue gym slips, beige cream blouses and blue and green striped tie collars.
I use oxides, pigments and colored slips on unfired clay, employing various techniques, which include brushwork, sponging and sgraffito.
Includes letterhead, compliments slips, business cards, fax headers and other material.