slip

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  1. intransitive verb To move smoothly, easily, and quietly: slipped into bed.
  2. intransitive verb To move stealthily; steal.
  3. intransitive verb To pass gradually, easily, or imperceptibly: "It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by” (Vita Sackville-West).
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  • I now know that the signing of the slip is a legal requirement, with which every patient is supposed to comply upon entering such an institution—private in character—unless he has been committed by some court. —  A Mind That Found Itself
  • She tore at it madly, and got it off, but her slip was afire. —  GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION
  • - The Palm Pre is already in mass production if a slip from a Chinese wholesaler proves true. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • The man held a small slip of paper in his hand, and Dick instantly surmised that the slip might be a communication from either the captain or the chief officer to the purser The lad paused in his walk, awaiting results. —  In Search of El Dorado
  • It's the last clutch at the grass as they go slip--slip--slipping down. —  Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete
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slip:   slips ·  slipping ·  slipped
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  1. Middle English slippen, probably of Middle Low German or Middle Dutch origin; see lei- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch slippe.
  3. Middle English, slime, from Old English slypa; see sleubh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Under this form are merged several orig. different verbal forms: (a) from Middle English slippen (preterit slipte, past participle slipped), from Anglo-Saxon *slippan (Somner, Lye) (preterit *slipte, past participle *slipped), slip, = Middle Dutch, Dutch slippen, slip, escape, = Middle Low German slippen = Old High German sliffan, slipfan, Middle High German slipfen, German schlipfen (mixed with schlüpfen), slip, glide, = Icelandic sleppa, let slip, = Swedish slippa = Danish slippe, slip, let go, get off, escape; causal of (b) Anglo-Saxon slīpan (Lye) (preterit *slāp, past participle *slipen), slip, glide, pass away, = Old High German slīfan, Middle High German slīfen, German schleifen, slide, glance; this group being identical in form with the transitive verb (c) Middle English slipen = Middle Dutch, Dutch slijpen = Middle Low German slīpen = Middle High German slīfen, German schleifen = Icelandic slīpa = Norwegian slipa = Swedish slipa = Danish slibe, make smooth, polish; cf. (d) Icelandic sleppa (preterit slapp, past participle slyppinn), slip, slide, escape, fail, miss, = Norwegian sleppa = Swedish slippa = Danish slippe (preterit slap), let go, escape (no exactly corresponding Anglo-Saxon form appears); (e) Anglo-Saxon as if *slyppan = Old High German slupfen, Middle High German slüpfen, German schlüpfen, slip, glide; (f) Anglo-Saxon as if *sly¯pan = Old Saxon slōpjan = Old High German sloufan, Middle High German sloufen, slöufen, slip, slide, push, = Gothic (Moesogothic) *slaupjan, in comp, af-slaupjan, put off; (g) Anglo-Saxon slūpan,*sleóp-an (preterit sleáp, past participle slopen), slip, fall away (also in comp. ā-slūpan, tō-slūpan, fall apart), = Dutch sluipen, sneak, = Old High German sliofan, Middle High German sliefen, German schliefen, slip, crawl, sneak, = Gothic (Moesogothic) sliupan (preterit slaup, past participle *slupans), slip, also in comp. ufsliupan, creep in. These forms belong to two roots, √ slip, √ slup, the first four groups to √slip, which is prob. an extension of the √ sli in slide, sling, slink, etc., Sanskrit √ sar, flow, and the last three groups to √ slup, perhaps akin to L. lubricus (for *slubricus), smooth, slippery, Lith, slubnas, weak. The forms and uses in Teutonic are confused, and overlap. From the same root or roots are ult., slipper, slipper, slippery, slop, slope, sleeve, sloven, etc
  2. from Middle English slip, slyp, a garment (= Middle Dutch Middle Low German slippe, a garment), slippe (= Old High German sliph, slipf, Middle High German slif slipf), a descent: see slip, v. Cf. slop. The noun uses are very numerous, mostly from the modern verb.
  3. from Middle English slyp, slype, slypp (= Middle Low German slip), slime; see slip v. (g).
  4. A particular use of slip (?).
 

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