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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slip/#m1)

2) To move or go quietly and quickly: «She slipped out of the room». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slip/#m2)

3) To put something somewhere quickly: «He slipped the note into his pocket». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slip/#m3)

4) A noun: a small mistake: a slip of the tongue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slip/#m4)

5) A noun: a small piece of paper: a permission slip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slip/#m5)

6) Slip on/off: to put on or take off clothes easily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slip/#m6)

7) To slip through someone's fingers means to escape from them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slip/#m7)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slip/#x1)
- I slipped on a banana skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slip/#x2)
- Walk, don't run, by the pool so you don't slip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slip/#x3)
- Slip, slop, slap: slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, slap on a hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slip/#x4)
- Bring your signed permission slip on Monday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slip/#x5)
- He slipped the letter under the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slip/#x6)
- I let the secret slip by accident. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slip/#x7)
- Saying «Mum» to the teacher was a slip of the tongue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slip/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/16/)
- [Back home, a coal slips in the fire and the Rat wakes up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/34-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood/8/)
- [«You backsliding animal» cries the Badger (backsliding = slipping back into bad ways).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/28/)
- [They slip into a hole in the river-bank.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/3/)
- [Helium atoms are so tiny they slip through the rubber skin of a party balloon, so it shrinks in a few days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «slip» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slip/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.