(n.) To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.
(n.) To slide; to lose one's footing or one's hold; not to tread firmly; as, it is necessary to walk carefully lest the foot should slip.
(n.) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; -- often with out, off, etc.; as, a bone may slip out of its place.
(n.) To depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding; to go or come in a quiet, furtive manner; as, some errors slipped into the work.
(n.) To err; to fall into error or fault.
(v. t.) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
(v. t.) To omit; to loose by negligence.
(v. t.) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of; as, to slip a piece of cloth or paper.
(v. t.) To let loose in pursuit of game, as a greyhound.
(v. t.) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place; as, a horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar.
(v. t.) To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
(n.) The act of slipping; as, a slip on the ice.
(n.) An unintentional error or fault; a false step.
(n.) A twig separated from the main stock; a cutting; a scion; hence, a descendant; as, a slip from a vine.
(n.) A slender piece; a strip; as, a slip of paper.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion; as, to give one the slip.
(n.) A portion of the columns of a newspaper or other work struck off by itself; a proof from a column of type when set up and in the galley.
(n.) Any covering easily slipped on.
(n.) A loose garment worn by a woman.
(n.) A child's pinafore.
(n.) An outside covering or case; as, a pillow slip.
(n.) The slip or sheath of a sword, and the like.
(n.) A counterfeit piece of money, being brass covered with silver.
(n.) Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
(n.) Potter's clay in a very liquid state, used for the decoration of ceramic ware, and also as a cement for handles and other applied parts.
(n.) A particular quantity of yarn.
(n.) An inclined plane on which a vessel is built, or upon which it is hauled for repair.
(n.) An opening or space for vessels to lie in, between wharves or in a dock; as, Peck slip.
(n.) A narrow passage between buildings.
(n.) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
(n.) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
(n.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she 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.
(n.) A fish, the sole.
(n.) A fielder stationed on the off side and to the rear of the batsman. There are usually two of them, called respectively short slip, and long slip.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
(2) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(3) But in each party there are major issues to be dealt with as the primary phase of the contests slips gradually into the rear-view mirror.
(4) You could easily replicate the biggest threat he faces in the film by slipping off your shoes and taking a broom handle to a greenhouse.
(5) Whenever Fox meets someone for the first time, he slips on this look as instinctively as others shuck on a jacket when they leave the house.
(6) Had not Jaggers summoned me to see him on the day of my majority some years later, I might have wondered at the psychological implausibility of an old woman training a child to be a psychopath, but luckily I was so caught up by the possibility of my benefactor's name being revealed that the thought quite slipped my mind.
(7) The pigeon's metapatagialis muscle consists of three slips, two twitch and one tonic, and these slips are distinguishable at the gross anatomical level.
(8) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
(9) Ivanovic simply seemed to pull a muscle when he slipped on the greasy surface.
(10) Updated at 5.11pm BST 5.07pm BST 68th over: Sri Lanka 251-9 (Herath 10, Pradeep 11) Plunkett sends one towards Herath's visage, and he fidgets it down without looking happy in the process, before Pradeep guides one over the slips and gets two.
(11) Suddenly he would be picking up speed, scurrying past opponents and, in one instance, slipping the ball through Laurent Koscielny’s legs for a nutmeg that was so exquisitely executed he might have been tempted to ruffle his opponent’s hair.
(12) In the UK, the manufacturing PMI also slipped to 49, its lowest level in more than two years, pointing to a second successive month of contraction in the sector the area that Osborne hoped could lead the UK economy back to sustainable growth with a "march of the makers".
(13) Dotcom's legal team repeated that he denies the charges, adding he was suffering from diabetes and hypertension, and receiving treatment for a slipped disc.
(14) Those who fear poverty, look it straight in the eye at the end of every month, face a constant battle to avoid it or slip in and out of it while struggling to retain every semblance of middle-class stability.
(15) In between the two sets, we slip to the Silverlake Lounge ( foldsilverlake.com ), where Silversun Pickups used to play, to listen to Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, a six-piece that meshes folk rock with the Beach Boys with Yes.
(16) "The rise of trainers and slip-ons, the Birkenstock … Certain designers are shifting our perception of chic," she says.
(17) Intermittent movement of slides during incubation in buffer as well as the details of mounting and removal of cover slips were found to be important.
(18) But some environmental leaders said they feared those opportunities could slip away, with Obama caught up in other pressing issues such as gun control or immigration.
(19) His story - which he was led through on Monday by his lawyer - is that he was outside his house cleaning Sadie, his dog, when the girls came down the road; that he took Holly and Jessica into his house because Holly had a nosebleed; took them upstairs into the bathroom where Holly sat on the edge of the full bath and he gave her tissues to staunch it; took Holly into his bedroom, to sit on the bed while Jessica used the toilet, took Holly back into the bathroom where she could finish cleaning up her nosebleed; accidentally slipped beside Holly and the full bath, and heard a splash; froze in panic; placed his hand over Jessica's mouth because she was screaming, 'You pushed her'.
(20) While the setback should have little impact on AstraZeneca's future revenues and profits, investors and analysts are watching closely for any slip-up in its R&D efforts.
Streaky
Definition:
(a.) Same as Streaked, 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of our favourite things to stir in include: chickpeas and fried chorizo pieces; crisply fried smoked streaky bacon and frozen peas; chunks of aubergine fried in a pan, crumbled ricotta or cream cheese on top; capers and basil; chopped anchovies, a little cream and chopped rosemary; wilted rocket with crumbled feta on top; or chopped basil, a knob of butter, and a little balsamic.
(2) Excretory urography of a patient with an early stage of medullary cystic disease demonstrated an inhomogeneous, streaky nephrogram confined to the medulla, presumably due to accumulation of contrast material in dilated tubules.
(3) Let’s wind him up by cleaning the condensation off the inside of the windows using our bare hands.” That grey-haired guy in Sherlock would get really angry if you cleaned the condensation off the inside of his car windows with your bare hands; he’d shout-talk something about streaky finger marks.
(4) Full English breakfast SERVES 4 sausages 4 vegetable oil smoked streaky bacon 200g plum tomatoes 2 salt Portobello mushrooms 4 butter chicken stock 200ml thyme 1 sprig garlic 2 cloves, crushed black pudding 4 thick (1.5cm) slices free-range eggs 4 bread toasted Start with the sausages For me, it's about finding great ingredients and treating them with respect, as if you were building a wall or making a beautiful piece of furniture.
(5) In addition to a nodular pattern, reticulo-nodular, reticular, diffuse infiltrative and streaky shadowing due to fibrosis could be recognised.
(6) Low molecular weight proteins were resolvable into a few diffuse and streaky bands by dodecyl sulfate and chloral hydrate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the former giving superior reso-ution.
(7) Twenty-one of these (3 symptomatic, 18 asymptomatic) developed subpleural pulmonary abnormalities which were streaky or reticular in 7, homogeneous with a broad base against pleura in 3 and had a mixed pattern in 11 patients.
(8) Popovich pulls Green, AGAIN, one good way to break up a streaky player's confidence that.
(9) Skylarks are smallish, brown birds with a perky crest and streaky plumage.
(10) Yet Danny Rose’s streaky goal sparked the Spurs fightback and although this was not the result that they wanted in the race for a top-four finish – and to capitalise on Manchester United’s loss at Swansea City on Saturday – they were more than happy to take it.
(11) The only sketch comedian who really preceded them was Spike Milligan, and his work was streaky, too.
(12) If you slap on too many coats it goes all streaky, too few and it just looks weak.
(13) The CT findings were linear and streaky densities in the pericecal fat compatible with pericecal inflammation (seven cases), intramural abscess (one case), thickening of the cecal wall (two cases), and cecal diverticulum (one case).
(14) As a result, the press had approximately 200m images of crying Brazilian faces to choose from: players, politicians, fans with streaky face paint, families in favelas, children wearing glasses, old men with moustaches clutching replica trophies, jaguars in the rainforest.
(15) The distinctive radiographic feature in the child was an endosteal pattern of hyperostosis marked by streakiness of the long bones and spotting of the small.
(16) The radiographic pattern in the course of experimentally infected Rhesus monkeys with the two African fluke species Paragonimus africanus and P. uterobilateralis consist of hilar dilatation, streaky, patchy or diffuse shadows, cavities, atelectases and pleural reactions.
(17) We needed a different way to try to penetrate, and David found more room in the second half.” Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling: I did not say I was too tired to play for England Read more While there was a touch of good fortune about Agüero’s second, a deflection off Yoan Gouffran making life difficult for Krul when the goalkeeper might otherwise have had the shot covered, there was nothing streaky about the rest.
(18) Serves 4 1.2kg potatoes, preferably Maris Piper or King Edward, peeled and cut into roughly 4cm chunks 1 small green savoy cabbage (about 450g), trimmed and finely shredded 75g butter, cubed 6 rindless smoked streaky bacon rashers, cut into 3cm pieces 6 spring onions, trimmed and finely sliced 125ml double cream 4 large fridge-cold eggs Flaked sea salt Freshly ground black pepper 1 Put the potatoes in a large saucepan and cover with cold water.
(19) When your city’s default backdrop is drizzle, streaky concrete and endless branches of Greggs, it’s easy to yearn wistfully for sparkling skyscrapers, chrome-plated diners and avenue canyons stretching to infinity.
(20) In addition to predominating basally localized streaky-nodular lung changes all patients had hepatosplenomegaly and granulomatous infections of other organs.