slip

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 slipdress.

A mistake or error.

(nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.

(nautical) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.

(nautical) A slipway.

(medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.

(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.)

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.

An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.

(aviation) Clipping of sideslip.

(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.

(dated) A child's pinafore.

An outside covering or case.

(obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.

Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.

A particular quantity of yarn.

(UK, dated) A narrow passage between buildings.

(US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.

(mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.

(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.

(electrical) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.

(telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.

A fish, the sole.