English-French translations for slip

• barbotine
• bordereau
• empirer
• faire erreur
• faire passer
  On tente toujours de faire passer subrepticement ces mesures sous forme d'amendements, et même dans le corps des rapports, et je m'y opposerai à chaque fois que j'en aurai l'occasion. There is a constant attempt to slip these measures in as amendments, and even in the body of reports, and I will oppose them at every opportunity.
• fiche
  Je vous prie de contrôler qui a signé la fiche ! Please look into this very carefully and check who signed the slip.
  Dans mon pays, derrière le rideau de fer, les femmes n’attendaient pas de recevoir une fiche de salaire, ni les allocations chômage pour entretenir ceux qui leur étaient proches. In my country, behind the Iron Curtain, women did not expect to receive a pay slip, nor unemployment benefit to support those close to them.
• glissade
• glisser
  La triste affaire de la banane nous rappelle que l'on peut facilement glisser dans les excès du libéralisme. The sad banana affair reminds us that it is easy to slip on the excesses of liberalism.
  Nous avons pu glisser dans ce mandat de négociation de nombreux éléments auxquels nous tenons. We were able to slip a lot of things that are important to us into this negotiating mandate.
  Il est tout à fait inopportun de glisser ces pouvoirs considérables dans le sillage d'une mesure de libéralisation. Slipping through these huge powers in the slipstream of a liberalisation measure is quite inappropriate.
• jupon
• se tromper

Definition of slip

• A thin, slippery mix of clay and water
• A twig or shoot; a cutting
• A descendant, a scion
• A young person (now usually with introducing descriptive qualifier
• A long, thin piece of something
• A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information
• A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters
• To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction
• To err
• To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional
• To pass , often covertly
• To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly
• To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding
• To move down; to slide
• To release to go after a quarry
• 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
• To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of
• To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place
• To bring forth prematurely; to slink
• An act or instance of slipping
• A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift
• A mistake or error
• A berth; a space for a ship to moor
• A slipway
• 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 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
• An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion
• 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
• An outside covering or case
• A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver
• Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools
• An aqueous suspension of minerals, usually clay, used, among other things, to stick workpieces together
• A narrow passage between buildings
• A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity
• 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

Examples

• a slip from a vine
• She couldnt hurt a fly, young slip of a girl that she is.
• a salary slip
• A bone may slip out of place.
• She thanked the porter and slipped a ten-dollar bill into his hand.
• Some errors slipped into the appendix.
• Profits have slipped over the past six months.
• to slip a piece of cloth or paper
• A horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar.
• I had a slip on the ice and bruised my hip.
• a slip of the tongue
• He gave the warden the slip and escaped from the prison.
• a pillow slip
• the slip or sheath of a sword

Related words

• slipper
• slippery
• cowslip
• payslip
• slipover
• pillowslip
• slipknot
• landslip
• slippy