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Slip vs Blip - What's the difference?

slip | blip |

In intransitive terms the difference between slip and blip

is that slip is to move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding while blip is to change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.

In transitive terms the difference between slip and blip

is that slip is to cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly while blip is to skip over or ignore (with out).

slip

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) slype, of uncertain origin.

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete) Mud, slime.
  • (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.

    • Etymology 2

    Probably from (etyl) slippe or (etyl) slippe. Compare Dutch slip, German Schlippe.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A twig or shoot; a cutting.
    • a slip from a vine
  • (obsolete) A descendant, a scion.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a native slip to us from foreign seeds
  • A young person (now usually with (of) introducing descriptive qualifier).
    • She couldn't hurt a fly, young slip of a girl that she is.
  • A long, thin piece of something.
  • * Tennyson
    • moonlit slips of silver cloud
  • A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide.
    • Derived terms
    * pink slip * sales slip

    Etymology 3

    Apparently from (etyl) slippen (Dutch slippen, German ).

    Verb

    (slipp)
  • To lose one's traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 9 , author=Jonathan Wilson , title=Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Fernando Amorebieta seemed to have checked him, but a stepover created a fraction of room that became significant as the defender slipped , giving Falcao just enough space to curl a superb finish into the top corner.}}
  • To err.
  • * Bible, Eccl. xix. 16
    • There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart.
  • To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out'', ''off , etc.
    • A bone may slip out of place.
  • To pass (a note, money, etc.) often covertly.
    • She thanked the porter and slipped a ten-dollar bill into his hand.
  • To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • He tried to slip a powder into her drink.
  • To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
    • Some errors slipped into the appendix.
  • * Prior
    • Thus one tradesman slips away, / To give his partner fairer play.
  • * Dryden
    • Thrice the flitting shadow slipped away.
  • * 1883 ,
    • We slipped along the hedges, noiseless and swift
  • (figuratively) To move down; to slide.
    • Profits have slipped over the past six months.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Marc Vesty , title=Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The Cottagers had previously gone eight games without a win and had slipped into the relegation zone over Christmas, with boss Hughes criticised by fans after their 3-1 home defeat by fellow basement battlers West Ham on Boxing Day.}}
  • (falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Lucento slipped me like his greyhound.
  • (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
    • And slip no advantage / That may secure you.
  • To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
    • to slip a piece of cloth or paper
  • * Mortimer
    • The branches also may be slipped and planted.
  • To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
    • A horse slips''' his bridle; a dog '''slips his collar.
  • To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or instance of slipping.
    • I had a slip on the ice and bruised my hip.
  • A women's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress; a shift.
  • A mistake or error.
    • a slip of the tongue
  • * Fuller
    • This good man's slip mended his pace to martyrdom.
  • (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
    • We stalked over the extensive plains with Killbuck and Lena in the slips , in search of deer.
  • An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
    • He gave the warden the slip and escaped from the prison.
    (Shakespeare)
  • (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.
    • a pillow slip
    the slip or sheath of a sword
  • (obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • 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.
    • (Knight)
  • (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.
    • Synonyms
    * (a mistake) blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, stumble, thinko * (return to previous behaviour) lapse

    Derived terms

    * (undergarment) full slip, waist slip

    Related terms

    * Freudian slip * let something slip * nonslip * slippage * slippery * slipshod * slip of the tongue * slip one's mind * slip through one's fingers * slip away * slip down * slip into * slip road * slip out * slip up * slip-up * there's many a slip twixt cup and lip

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    blip

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
  • * 1985 , Frederick Forsyth, The Fourth Protocol
    • When the blip began to move up the oscilloscope screen, they followed again.
  • * 2004 , Asaf Degani, Taming HAL: Designing Interfaces Beyond 2001
    • At 6:45 pm, the chief officer saw a blip on the radar, approximately seven nautical miles away.
  • A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.
  • * 2000 , Ken Norton, Going the Distance
    • Blip ..Blip..Blip..Blip  There was that annoying noise again.
  • * 2002 , Richard Strozzi-Heckler, In Search of the Warrior Spirit: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets
    • The little “blip ” sound that happens when a balloon is shot down becomes a duet with the player. “Blip” “Damn!” “Blip” “Damn!”
  • A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.
  • * 2003 , Brett Grodeck, The First Year - HIV: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
    • There's a chance this is just a viral blip , an intermittent spike of low-level virus that just happens in people on successful HIV treatment.
  • * 2003 , Dany Spencer Adams, Lab Math: A Handbook of Measurements, Calculations, and Other Quantitative Skills for Use at the Bench
    • As a cell moves through the aperture it causes a blip (a brief change) in the voltage when the nonconductive cell briefly displaces the conductive medium.

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To skip over or ignore (with out ).
  • * 1990 , Hearing Before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Defining the Frontier: A Policy Challenge
    • If we look, for example, at Laramie County, with a population density of 26.8 per square mile, if you blipped out Cheyenne, Laramie County would change significantly.
  • * 1996 , John Dunning, The Bookman's Wake
    • He listened but his mind heard only words and blipped out meanings.
  • To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.
  • * 2003 , Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
    • And yet, they pulsed and glowed and shimmied and flared and stared at you, just like now—staring in at his and Whitey's own lights as they blipped past on the expressway....
  • * 2005 , Craig Lansford, Tales from Salome: Broken Angel
    • The screen blipped out as the connection was terminated.... A few seconds passed before the screen again blipped to life.