slip

slip

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English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: slĭp, IPA(key): /slɪp/
  • Rhymes: -ɪp

Etymology 1

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, slupen (“to slip”), German schlüpfen (“to slip”).

Verb

slip (third-person singular simple present slips, present participle slipping, simple past and past participle slipped or (obsolete) slipt)

  1. (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
  2. (intransitive) To err.
  3. (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
  4. (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
  5. (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
  6. (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
  7. (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
  8. (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
  9. (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
  10. (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
  11. (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”)..
  12. (transitive, cooking) 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.
  13. (obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.
  14. (transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
  15. (transitive) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
  16. To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
  17. (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
Translations

Noun

slip (plural slips)

  1. An act or instance of slipping.
  3. 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.
  4. A slipdress.
  5. A mistake or error.
  6. (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
  7. (nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
  8. (nautical) A slipway.
  9. (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
  10. (cricket) 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.)
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
  14. (aviation) Clipping of sideslip.
  15. (printing, dated) 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.
  16. (dated) A child's pinafore.
  17. An outside covering or case.
  18. (obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.
  19. Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
  20. A particular quantity of yarn.
  21. (UK, dated) A narrow passage between buildings.
  22. Either side of the gallery in a theater.
  23. (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
  24. (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
  25. (engineering) 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.
  26. (electrical) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
  27. (telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
  28. A fish, the sole.
  29. (crosswording) A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
Synonyms
  • (a mistake): blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, stumble, thinko
  • (return to previous behaviour): lapse
Hyponyms
  • (undergarment): full slip, waist slip
Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Probably from Middle Dutch slippe or Middle Low German slippe, probably ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *slīban (“to split”).

Noun

slip (plural slips)

  1. A twig or shoot; a cutting.
  2. (obsolete) A descendant, a scion.
  3. A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
  4. A long, thin piece of something.
  5. A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
  6. (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.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English slyp, slep, slyppe, from Old English slyp, slyppe, slipa (“a viscous, slimy substance”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *sleupan, from Proto-Germanic *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”), possibly connected with Proto-Indo-European *slewb-, *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak, crawl”); or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *slippijaną (“to glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyb- (“slimy; to glide”).

Compare Old English slūpan (“to slip, glide”), Old English cūslyppe, cūsloppe (“cowslip”).

Noun

slip (countable and uncountable, plural slips)

  1. (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
  2. (obsolete) Mud, slime.
Translations

References

  • “slip”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “slip”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • lisp, Lisp, LSPI, lips, LIPs, pils, PILs, LISP, Lips, LPIs

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slɪp/
  • Hyphenation: slip
  • Rhymes: -ɪp

Etymology 1

From English slip, probably via French slip. The English word may itself be derived from Middle Dutch slippen (etymology 3 and 4) below.

Noun

slip f (plural slips, diminutive slipje n)

  1. a pair of briefs, a short type of underpants which covers the buttocks but nothing below
  2. (by extension, for women) a pair of knickers or panties, any female underpants

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch slippe, sleppe, probably ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *slīban (“to split”). Related with German Schlips (“necktie”).

Noun

slip f (plural slippen, diminutive slipje n)

  1. tail, part of an upper garment hanging below the waist
Descendants
  • → Papiamentu: slip (dated)

Etymology 3

Deverbal from slippen.

Noun

slip m (uncountable)

  1. skid, an act or instance of slipping
Descendants
  • → Indonesian: slip

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

slip

  1. inflection of slippen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Anagrams

  • pils

French

Etymology

From English slip.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slip/

Noun

slip m (plural slips)

  1. briefs (men's underpants)

Derived terms

  • slip de bain

Descendants

  • → Vietnamese: xi-líp

Further reading

  • “slip”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • plis

Indonesian

Etymology 1

  • From Dutch slip, the deverbal of slippen. Apparently from Middle Low German slippen. Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”).
  • Semantic loan from English slip (“small piece of paper”) for sense of small piece of paper, which came from above.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈslip]
  • Hyphenation: slip

Noun

slip (plural slip-slip)

  1. slip:
    1. an act or instance of slipping
      Synonyms: tergelincir, selip
    2. small piece of paper

Etymology 2

From English slip, from Middle English slyp, slep, slyppe, from Old English slyp, slyppe, slipa (“a viscous, slimy substance”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”), possibly connected with Proto-Indo-European *slewb-, *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak, crawl”); or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *slippijaną (“to glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyb- (“slimy; to glide”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈslip]
  • Hyphenation: slip

Noun

slip (plural slip-slip)

  1. (archaeology, ceramics) slip: a thin, slippery mix of clay and water

Further reading

  • “slip” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French, from English slip.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzlip/
  • Rhymes: -ip
  • Hyphenation: slìp

Noun

slip m (invariable)

  1. men's or women's underpants (knickers, panties)
  2. swimming trunks

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

slip

  1. imperative of slipe

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French slip or English slip.

Noun

slip n (plural slipuri)

  1. bikini bottom

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • slijȇp (Ijekavian, standard)

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *slěpъ.

Adjective

slip (Cyrillic spelling слип)

  1. (Chakavian, Ikavian) blind
    • 1375, N.N., Muka svete Margarite (transcribed from Glagolitic original):
    • late 15th century or early 16th century, Šiško Menčetić, Ako ćeš, Stijepo moj, za mene što stvorit:
    • 1630s, Ivan Gundulić, Osman:
    • 1759, Antun Kanižlić
      Zato slipi, koji srići tamjan nose
      i u tugah svojih pomoć od nje prose;
      slipi, koji scine, da je ona kuća,
      gdi ona prosine, svitla i moguća,
      i da dili blago slipa vila svima,
      i kad joj je drago, opet uzme njima.

Etymology 2

Neologism, from English slip (of paper).

Noun

slip m (Cyrillic spelling слип)

  1. Credit or debit card receipt

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French, from English slip.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /esˈlip/ [esˈlip]
  • Rhymes: -ip

Noun

slip m (plural slip)

  1. male briefs
  2. female underpants(less usual meaning)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

  • “slip”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English slip. Attested since 1872.

Noun

slip c

  2. (nautical) a slipway, a slip
Declension
See also
  • stapel (“stocks”)

Etymology 2

Deverbal from slipa.

Noun

slip c

  1. a grinder, a sander (tool)
Declension
Derived terms
  • slipmaskin (“sander”)
  • vinkelslip (“angle grinder”)

References

  • slip in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • slip in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • slip in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  • slip in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English sleep.

Verb

slip

  1. sleep

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English sleep.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slip/

Noun

slip (nominative plural slips)

  1. sleep

Declension

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