Graze vs Slip - What's the difference?
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The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1999:' Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever '''grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. — ''Stardust , Neil Gaiman, page 4 (2001 Perennial Edition).
(ambitransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
* Alexander Pope
* 1993 , John Montroll, Origami Inside-Out (page 41)
To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
* Shakespeare
To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
* 1851 ,
To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
To yield grass for grazing.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) Mud, slime.
(ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
A twig or shoot; a cutting.
(obsolete) A descendant, a scion.
* Shakespeare
A young person (now usually with (of) introducing descriptive qualifier).
A long, thin piece of something.
* Tennyson
A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide.
To lose one's traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
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To err.
* Bible, Eccl. xix. 16
To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out'', ''off , etc.
To pass (a note, money, etc.) often covertly.
To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
* Arbuthnot
To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
* Prior
* Dryden
* 1883 ,
(figuratively) To move down; to slide.
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(falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
* Shakespeare
(cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
(obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.
* Ben Jonson
To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
* Mortimer
To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
An act or instance of slipping.
A women's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress; a shift.
A mistake or error.
* Fuller
(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.
(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.
* Sir S. Baker
An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
(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.
A fish, the sole.
In transitive terms the difference between graze and slip
is that graze is to cause a slight wound to; to scratch while slip is to cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.In intransitive terms the difference between graze and slip
is that graze is to yield grass for grazing while slip is to move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.graze
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(graz)- a field or two to graze his cows
- Cattle graze in the meadows.
- The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.
- The bird [Canada goose] is more often found on land than other waterfowl because of its love for seeds and grains. The long neck is well adapted for grazing .
- when Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep
- the bullet grazed the wall
- But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.
- to graze one's knee
- The sewers must be kept so as the water may not stay too long in the spring; for then the ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose that year.
Derived terms
* overgrazeAnagrams
* ----slip
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) slype, of uncertain origin.Noun
(-)Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) slippe or (etyl) slippe. Compare Dutch slip, German Schlippe.Noun
(en noun)- a slip from a vine
- a native slip to us from foreign seeds
- She couldn't hurt a fly, young slip of a girl that she is.
- moonlit slips of silver cloud
Derived terms
* pink slip * sales slipEtymology 3
Apparently from (etyl) slippen (Dutch slippen, German ).Verb
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- There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart.
- A bone may slip out of place.
- She thanked the porter and slipped a ten-dollar bill into his hand.
- He tried to slip a powder into her drink.
- Some errors slipped into the appendix.
- Thus one tradesman slips away, / To give his partner fairer play.
- Thrice the flitting shadow slipped away.
- We slipped along the hedges, noiseless and swift
- Profits have slipped over the past six months.
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- Lucento slipped me like his greyhound.
- And slip no advantage / That may secure you.
- to slip a piece of cloth or paper
- The branches also may be slipped and planted.
- A horse slips''' his bridle; a dog '''slips his collar.
Noun
(en noun)- I had a slip on the ice and bruised my hip.
- a slip of the tongue
- This good man's slip mended his pace to martyrdom.
- We stalked over the extensive plains with Killbuck and Lena in the slips , in search of deer.
- He gave the warden the slip and escaped from the prison.
- (Shakespeare)
- a pillow slip
- the slip or sheath of a sword
- (Shakespeare)
- (Knight)