A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
A long, thin piece of something.
A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
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.
An act or instance of slipping.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind; to sideslip.
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.
To omit; to lose by negligence.
To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
From Middle English slyp, slep, slyppe, from Old English slyp, slyppe, slipa, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sleupaną, possibly connected with Proto-Indo-European *slewb-, *slewbʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-; or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *slippijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sleyb-. Compare Old English slūpan, Old English cūslyppe, cūsloppe.
Probably from Middle Dutch slippe or Middle Low German slippe.
Apparently from Middle Low German slippen. Cognate to Dutch slippen, German schlüpfen. Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ-.
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