slip

«slip» in Mova's school dictionary: To slide by accident and fall or nearly fall, especially… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (slip, slips, slipped, slipping); noun (a slip, slips)

meaning for a pupil

1) To slide by accident and fall or nearly fall, especially on something wet or smooth. tree →

2) To move or go quietly and quickly: «She slipped out of the room». tree →

3) To put something somewhere quickly: «He slipped the note into his pocket». tree →

4) A noun: a small mistake: a slip of the tongue. tree →

5) A noun: a small piece of paper: a permission slip. tree →

6) Slip on/off: to put on or take off clothes easily. tree →

7) To slip through someone's fingers means to escape from them. tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety: wet floors, ice and spills make people slip — wipe spills, walk don't run by the pool, wear shoes with grip; «Caution: wet floor» signs. In Australian sun safety: «Slip, slop, slap» (slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, slap on a hat). In school: a permission slip for a trip. Phrases: slip over, slip on, slip away, slip up (make a mistake), a slip of the tongue, let it slip (tell a secret by accident), permission slip, slippery.

examples

• Be careful — you might slip on the ice. tree →
• I slipped on a banana skin. tree →
• Walk, don't run, by the pool so you don't slip. tree →
• Slip, slop, slap: slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, slap on a hat. tree →
• Bring your signed permission slip on Monday. tree →
• He slipped the letter under the door. tree →
• I let the secret slip by accident. tree →
• Saying «Mum» to the teacher was a slip of the tongue. tree →

note

Regular verb: slipped, slipping (double p). «Slippery» = easy to slip on. «Slip up» = make a small mistake. «Slippers» (house shoes) come from the same word.

In the corpora

• Hard deer hooves grip soil and snow but slip on smooth ice, so real deer avoid frozen ponds where they can.
• Back home, a coal slips in the fire and the Rat wakes up.
• «You backsliding animal» cries the Badger (backsliding = slipping back into bad ways).
• They slip into a hole in the river-bank.
• Helium atoms are so tiny they slip through the rubber skin of a party balloon, so it shrinks in a few days.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «slip» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.