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slip

IPA(Pronunciation)

/slɪp/

Noun

obsolete

A twig or shoot; a cutting. / (obsolete) A descendant, a scion. / A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier). / A long, thin piece of something.

Japanese Meaning

小枝、若枝（枝の一部や切り株からの新芽） / （古語で）子孫、系統の末裔 / 若者や少年（現代では形容詞的な修飾が必要となることが多い） / 細長い一片、細い部位

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He took a slip from the rose bush to propagate a new plant.

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彼は新しい植物を増やすためにバラの茂みから挿し木を取った。

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Sense（1）

A twig or shoot; a cutting.

a slip from a vine

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Sense（2）

(obsolete) A descendant, a scion.

a native slip to us from foreign seeds

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Sense（3）

A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).

She couldn't hurt a fly, young slip of a girl that she is.

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Sense（4）

A long, thin piece of something.

Never, nevermore / Shall lone Œnone see the morning mist / Sweep thro' them—never see them overlaid / With narrow moonlit slips of silver cloud, / Between the loud stream and the trembling stars.

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Sense（5）

a salary slip

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Sense（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.

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