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(noun) the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) |
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Synonyms: eluding, elusion |
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Related Words: evasion |
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| 2. |
(noun) an inadvertent mistake |
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Synonyms: miscue, slipup |
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Related Words: error, fault, mistake |
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(noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air |
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Synonyms: sideslip |
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Related Words: airplane maneuver, flight maneuver |
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(verb) insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly |
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Related Words: enclose, inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in |
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(verb) get worse; "My grades are slipping" |
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Synonyms: drop away, drop off, fall away |
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Related Words: backslide, decline, lapse, worsen |
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(verb) pass out of one's memory |
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Synonyms: slip one's mind |
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(verb) move smoothly and easily |
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Related Words: break loose, escape, get away |
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(verb) pass on stealthily; "He slipped me the key when nobody was looking" |
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Synonyms: sneak |
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Related Words: give, hand, pass, pass on, reach, turn over |
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(noun) a small piece of paper; "a receipt slip" |
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Synonyms: slip of paper |
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Related Words: piece of paper, sheet, sheet of paper |
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(noun) an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall; "he blamed his slip on the ice"; "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills" |
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Synonyms: trip |
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Related Words: fall, misadventure, mischance, mishap, spill, tumble |
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(noun) a young and slender person; "he's a mere slip of a lad" |
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Related Words: young person, younker, youth |
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(noun) potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics |
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Related Words: potter's clay, potter's earth |
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(noun) an unexpected slide |
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Synonyms: sideslip, skid |
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Related Words: glide, slide |
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(verb) slide sideways |
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Synonyms: skid, slew, slide, slue |
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Related Words: glide, side-slip, skid |
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(verb) move stealthily; "The ship slipped away in the darkness" |
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Synonyms: steal |
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Related Words: move |
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(noun) a narrow flat piece of material |
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Synonyms: strip |
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Related Words: artefact, artifact, band, cramp, cramp iron, edge, lead, leading, margin, mullion, ribbon, stay, tape, tickertape, typewriter ribbon, weather strip, weather stripping |
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(noun) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting |
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Synonyms: cutting |
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Related Words: quickset, stalk, stem |
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(verb) move out of position; "dislocate joints" |
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Synonyms: dislocate, splay |
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Related Words: displace, move |
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(verb) to make a mistake or be incorrect |
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Synonyms: err, mistake |
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Related Words: blunder, fall for, misjudge, misremember, slip up, stumble, trip up |
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(noun) a cover for a pillow; "the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase" |
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Synonyms: case, pillow slip, pillowcase |
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Related Words: bed linen |
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(noun) a socially awkward or tactless act |
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Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, solecism |
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Related Words: blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, misdoing |
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(noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment |
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Synonyms: chemise, shift, shimmy, teddies, teddy |
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Related Words: undergarment |
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(noun) a slippery smoothness; "he could feel the slickness of the tiller" |
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Synonyms: slick, slickness, slipperiness |
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Related Words: smoothness |
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(noun) a place where a craft can be made fast |
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Synonyms: berth, moorage, mooring |
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Related Words: anchorage, anchorage ground |
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