Skid vs Slip - What's the difference?
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An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car.
A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan.
(by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
# A runner of a sled.
# A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.
# A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
# (nautical, in the plural) Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it when handling cargo.
# One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel.
To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard.
To protect or support with a skid or skids.
To cause to move on skids.
To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
(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 intransitive terms the difference between skid and slip
is that skid is to slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard while slip is to move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.In transitive terms the difference between skid and slip
is that skid is to check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid while slip is to cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.skid
English
Noun
(en noun)- Just before hitting the guardrail the driver was able to regain control and pull out of the skid .
- In the hours before daylight he sharpened the skids and tightened the lashings to prepare for the long dogsled journey.
- Due to frequent arctic travel, the plane was equipped with long skids for snow and ice landings.
- He unloaded six skids of boxes from the truck.
- (Totten)
Derived terms
* on the skids * skid markVerb
- They skidded around the corner and accelerated up the street.
- (Charles Dickens)
Anagrams
* * ----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)