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slip
English
- 🔊 the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
- 🔊 a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- 🔊 a flight maneuver
- 🔊 a small sheet of paper“a receipt slip”
- 🔊 an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall“he blamed his slip on the ice”
- 🔊 a young and slender person“he's a mere slip of a lad”
- 🔊 potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- 🔊 an unexpected slide
- 🔊 artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- 🔊 a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- 🔊 bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow“the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase”
- 🔊 a socially awkward or tactless act
- 🔊 a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- 🔊 a slippery smoothness“he could feel the slickness of the tiller”
- 🔊 a place where a craft can be made fast
- 🔊 insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly“He slipped some money into the waiter's hand”
- 🔊 get worse“My grades are slipping”
- 🔊 pass out of one's memory
- 🔊 move smoothly and easily“the bolt slipped into place”
- 🔊 cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion“he slipped the bolt into place”
- 🔊 move easily“slip into something comfortable”
- 🔊 pass on stealthily“He slipped me the key when nobody was looking”
- 🔊 move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner“the wheels skidded against the sidewalk”
- 🔊 move stealthily“The ship slipped away in the darkness”
- 🔊 to make a mistake or be incorrect
- 🔊 move out of position“dislocate joints”
Spanish
- 🔊 esbarar to slip
- 🔊 resbalar to slip
- 🔊 desliz slip, lapse
- 🔊 aleznar slip, slide.
- 🔊 patinar to slip, slide
- 🔊 pantaleta slip, underpants
- 🔊 despiste slip, slip-up (error)
- 🔊 patinazo slip, error, mistake, cock-up
- 🔊 resbalón slip, skid, slide (accidental)
- 🔊 deslizar to slip, to slither (to move stealthily or discreetly, to move with ease)