Synonyms of the word

slip

• n. (obsolete) Mud, slime.
• n. (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
• n. A twig or shoot; a cutting.
• n. (obsolete) A descendant, a scion.
• n. A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
• n. A long, thin piece of something.
• n. A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide.
• n. (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It…
• v. (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
• v. (intransitive) To err.
• v. (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
• v. (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
• v. (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
• v. (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or…
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
• v. (transitive, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly…
• v. (obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.
• v. To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
• v. To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
• v. To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
• n. An act or instance of slipping.
• n. A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed…
• n. A slipdress.
• n. A mistake or error.
• n. (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
• n. (nautical) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and…
• n. (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
• n. (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the…
• n. A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field…
• n. A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or…
• n. An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
• n. (printing, dated) A portion of the columns of a newspaper etc. struck off by itself; a proof from a column…
• n. (dated) A child's pinafore.
• n. An outside covering or case.
• n. (obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.
• n. Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
• n. (ceramics) An aqueous suspension of minerals, usually clay, used, among other things, to stick workpieces…
• n. A particular quantity of yarn.
• n. (Britain, dated) A narrow passage between buildings.
• n. (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
• n. (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
• n. (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an…
• n. (electrical) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
• n. A fish, the sole.

anchorage

• n. (nautical) A harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine,…
• n. (nautical) A fee charged for anchoring.
• n. That into which something is anchored or fastened.
• n. (medicine) The surgical fixation of prolapsed organs.
• n. The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
• n. The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
• n. (figuratively) Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.

artefact

• n. (British spelling, Australian spelling) alternative form of artifact.

artifact

• n. An object made or shaped by human hand.
• n. (archaeology) An object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, of archaeological or historical interest,…
• n. Something viewed as a product of human conception or agency rather than an inherent element.
• n. A structure or finding in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under…
• n. (biology) A structure or appearance in protoplasm due to death, method of preparation of specimens, or…
• n. An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
• n. (computing) A perceptible distortion that appears in a digital image, audio or video file as a result…

berth

• n. A fixed bunk for sleeping in (caravans, trains, etc).
• n. Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.).
• n. A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park.
• n. (nautical) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
• n. A job or position, especially on a ship.
• n. (sports) Position or seed in a tournament bracket.
• n. (sports) position on the field of play.
• v. (transitive) to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth.
• v. (transitive) to assign a berth (bunk or position) to.

block

• n. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
• n. A chopping block; cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
• n. A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
• n. A residential building consisting of flats.
• n. The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
• n. Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
• n. (slang) The human head.
• n. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
• n. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
• n. A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.
• n. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
• n. (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
• n. (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
• n. (rigging) A case with one or more sheaves/pulleys, used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for…
• n. (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present…
• n. Something that prevents something from passing (see blockage).
• n. (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball,…
• n. (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum…
• n. (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s…
• n. (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
• n. A section of split logs used as fuel.
• n. (Britain) Solitary confinement.
• n. A cellblock.
• n. (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
• n. (printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
• n. (obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
• n. A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
• n. (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
• n. (cricket) A blockhole.
• n. (cricket) The popping crease.
• n. Misspelling of bloc.
• v. (transitive) To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
• v. (transitive, sports) To impede an opponent.
• v. (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
• v. (transitive) To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with an undesirable someone.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To wait.
• v. (transitive) To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.

bloomer

• n. An ironworker.
• n. A circular loaf of white bread.
• n. A blooming flower.
• n. One who blooms, matures, or develops.
• n. (historical) A costume for women, consisting of a short dress with loose trousers gathered around the…
• n. (historical) A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.

blooper

• n. (informal) An error.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s) A fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders.
• n. (informal) A film or videotaped outtake that has recorded an amusing mistake and/or accident during the…
• n. (nautical) A kind of sail, a spanker.

blunder

• n. A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
• v. (intransitive) To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.
• v. (intransitive) To move blindly or clumsily.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a mistake.
• v. (transitive) To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

boner

• n. (literally) One who or that which bones (removes bones).
• n. (dated, baseball, slang) A blunder; a silly mistake.
• n. (vulgar, slang) An erect penis.

boo-boo

• n. (countable, colloquial, often childish) A mistake or error.
• n. (countable, colloquial, childish, by or to young children) A minor injury, such as a cut or a bruise.
• n. (uncountable, colloquial, childish, by or to young children) Feces.
• v. (colloquial, childish, by or to young children) To defecate.

botch

• v. (transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something;…
• v. To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
• v. To repair or mend clumsily.
• n. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly.
• n. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
• n. A ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work; mess; bungle.
• n. A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
• n. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
• n. (obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
• n. A case or outbreak of boils or sores.

bungle

• n. A botched or incompetently handled situation.
• v. To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly.

case

• n. An actual event, situation, or fact.
• n. (now rare) A given condition or state.
• n. A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
• n. (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
• n. (law) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
• n. (grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.
• n. (grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within…
• n. (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
• n. (programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
• v. (obsolete) To propose hypothetical cases.
• n. A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
• n. A box, sheath, or covering generally.
• n. A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
• n. An enclosing frame or casing.
• n. A suitcase.
• n. A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be…
• n. The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
• n. (printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally…
• n. (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case)…
• n. (poker slang) Four of a kind.
• n. (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid…
• n. (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
• n. A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
• adj. (poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
• v. (transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
• v. (transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
• v. (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for…

chemise

• n. (historical) A loose shirtlike undergarment, especially for women.
• n. A short nightdress, or similar piece of lingerie.
• n. A woman's dress that fits loosely; a chemise dress.
• n. A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.

coast

• n. (obsolete) The side or edge of something.
• n. The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake.
• n. (obsolete) A region of land; a district or country.
• n. (obsolete) A region of the air or heavens.
• v. (intransitive) To glide along without adding energy.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail along a coast.
• v. Applied to human behavior, to make a minimal effort, to continue to do something in a routine way. This…
• v. (obsolete) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.
• v. (obsolete) To sail by or near; to follow the coastline of.
• v. (obsolete) To conduct along a coast or river bank.
• v. (US, dialect) To slide downhill; to slide on a sled upon snow or ice.

cutting

• v. present participle of cut.
• n. (countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut.
• n. (countable) A section removed from the larger whole.
• n. (countable) A newspaper clipping.
• n. (countable) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
• n. (countable) An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
• n. (uncountable) The editing of film or other recordings.
• n. (uncountable) Self-harm; the act of cutting one's own skin.
• n. (machining) The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
• n. (countable) A narrow passage, dug for a road, railway or canal to go through.
• adj. (not comparable) That is used for cutting.
• adj. Of remarks, criticism, etc., potentially hurtful.

decline

• n. Downward movement, fall.
• n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
• n. A weakening.
• n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
• v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
• v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
• v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
• v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
• v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
• v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
• v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
• v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

dislocate

• v. to put something out of its usual place.
• v. (medicine) to (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint.

displace

• v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
• v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
• v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
• v. (psycology) to repress.

eluding

• v. present participle of elude.

elusion

• n. The act of eluding.

enclose

• v. (transitive) To surround with a wall, fence, etc.
• v. (transitive) To insert into a container, usually an envelope or package.
• v. (intransitive) To hold or contain.

err

• v. (intransitive) To make a mistake.
• v. (intransitive) To sin.
• v. (archaic) to stray.

error

• n. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
• n. (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
• n. (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
• n. (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
• n. (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
• n. (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
• n. Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
• v. (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
• v. (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
• v. (nonstandard) To err.

escape

• v. (intransitive) To get free, to free oneself.
• v. (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
• v. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
• v. (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
• v. (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted…
• v. (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
• n. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
• n. (computing) escape key.
• n. (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
• n. (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
• n. (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
• n. (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
• n. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
• n. (obsolete) A sally.
• n. (architecture) An apophyge.

evasion

• n. The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation;…

fault

• n. A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
• n. A mistake or error.
• n. A weakness of character; a failing.
• n. A minor offense.
• n. Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
• n. (seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
• n. (mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
• n. (tennis) An illegal serve.
• n. (electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
• n. (obsolete) want; lack.
• n. (hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
• v. (transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
• v. (intransitive, geology) To fracture.
• v. (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.

flub

• n. (informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
• v. (transitive) To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.

forget

• v. (transitive) To lose remembrance of.
• v. (transitive) To unintentionally not do, neglect.
• v. (transitive) To unintentionally leave something behind.
• v. (intransitive) To cease remembering.
• v. (slang) euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).

foul-up

• n. A disastrous mistake.

fuckup

• n. (vulgar) A serious mistake.
• n. (vulgar, pejorative) One who continually makes mistakes.
• n. (vulgar, pejorative) An ineffective person.

gaffe

• n. A foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public.

gaucherie

• n. (countable) A socially tactless or awkward act.
• n. (uncountable) Lack of tact; tactlessness; awkwardness.

give

• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
• v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
• v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
• v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
• v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
• v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
• v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
• v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
• v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
• v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
• v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
• v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
• v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
• v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
• v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
• v. To be going on, to be occurring.
• n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

glide

• v. (intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
• v. (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
• v. (transitive) To cause to glide.
• v. (phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
• n. The act of gliding.
• n. (phonology) Semivowel.
• n. (fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant…
• n. A bird, the glede or kite.
• n. A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor.

hand

• n. The part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other…
• n. (heading) That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.
• n. (heading) In linear measurement.
• n. A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
• n. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
• n. An agent; a servant, or manual laborer, especially in compounds; a workman, trained or competent for special…
• n. An instance of helping.
• n. Handwriting; style of penmanship.
• n. A person's autograph or signature.
• n. Personal possession; ownership.
• n. (usually in the plural, hands) Management, domain, control.
• n. (heading) That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.
• n. Applause.
• n. (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar,…
• n. (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
• n. A whole rhizome of ginger.
• n. The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of…
• n. (archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
• n. (archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another.
• n. (obsolete) Rate; price.
• v. (transitive) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
• v. (transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To manage.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To seize; to lay hands on.
• v. (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
• v. (transitive, nautical, said of a sail) To furl.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To cooperate.

inclose

• v. (now uncommon) Alternative form of enclose.

insert

• v. (transitive) To put in between or into.
• n. An image inserted into text.
• n. A promotional leaflet inserted into a magazine, newspaper, etc.
• n. (linguistics) An expression, such as "please" or an interjection, that may occur at various points in…
• n. (genetics) A sequence of DNA inserted into another DNA molecule.

introduce

• v. (transitive, of people) To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
• v. (transitive) To make (something or someone) known by formal announcement or recommendation.
• v. (transitive) To add (something) to a system, a mixture, or a container.
• v. (transitive) To bring (something) into practice.

luxate

• v. To dislocate.
• adj. Dislocated.

misadventure

• n. An accidental mishap or misfortune.

mischance

• n. Bad luck, misfortune.
• n. A mishap, an unlucky circumstance.
• v. (transitive) To undergo (a misfortune); to suffer (something unfortunate).

miscue

• n. (sports) In a cue sport, an error in hitting the ball with the cue.
• n. (theater) The act of missing one's cue or of responding to a cue intended for another actor.
• n. A miss of the object one intended to hit.
• v. (theater) To give an incorrect cue.
• v. (transitive) to mishit, strike incorrectly.

mishap

• n. An accident, mistake, or problem.
• n. Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
• v. (archaic) To happen through misfortune; to mishappen.

mistake

• n. An error; a blunder.
• n. (baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in…
• v. (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
• v. (intransitive) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.

moorage

• n. The act of mooring.
• n. A place where a ship or an aircraft may be moored.
• n. The fee for mooring.

mooring

• v. present participle of moor.
• n. A place to moor a vessel.
• n. The act of securing a vessel with a cable or anchor etc.
• n. (figuratively) Something to which one adheres to, or the means that help one maintain a stable position…

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

parapraxis

• n. a mistake, such as a slip of the tongue, that reveals a concealed thought or motive.

pass

• v. (heading) Physical movement.
• v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
• v. (heading) To move through time.
• v. (heading) To be accepted.
• v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
• v. (heading) To do or be better.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
• n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
• n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• n. An attempt.
• n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
• n. A sexual advance.
• n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
• n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
• n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
• n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
• n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
• n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

pillowcase

• n. A washable, easily removable cloth cover for pillows.

pratfall

• n. A fall onto the buttocks.
• n. A humiliating mistake.
• n. A staged trip or fall, often for comedic purposes.
• v. To fall on to the buttocks.

reach

• v. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
• v. (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand;…
• v. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
• v. (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something…
• v. (intransitive) To strike or touch with a missile.
• v. (transitive) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
• v. (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
• v. (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
• v. (transitive) To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.
• v. (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
• v. (obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.
• v. To strain after something; to make efforts.
• v. (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from…
• v. (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
• v. To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.
• n. The act of stretching or extending; extension.
• n. The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
• n. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management;…
• n. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
• n. (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
• n. (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
• n. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one…
• n. (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
• n. (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
• n. The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
• n. An effort to vomit; a retching.

sheet

• n. A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
• n. A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping,…
• n. A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.
• n. A thin, flat layer of solid material.
• n. A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface.
• n. (nautical) A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.
• n. (nautical, nonstandard) A sail.
• n. (curling) The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.
• n. (nonstandard) A layer of veneer.
• n. (figuratively) Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.
• n. (geology) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
• n. (nautical) The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.
• v. To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.
• v. Of rain, or other precipitation, to pour heavily.
• v. (nautical) To trim a sail using a sheet.

shift

• n. (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
• n. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
• n. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
• n. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
• n. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
• n. (computing) A bit shift.
• n. (baseball) The infield shift.
• n. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of sexual petting.
• n. (archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.
• n. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
• n. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed…
• n. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
• v. (transitive) To change, swap.
• v. (transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
• v. (intransitive) To change position.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
• v. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
• v. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
• v. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
• v. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare…
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of.
• v. (intransitive) To hurry.
• v. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
• v. (obsolete) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
• v. To practice indirect or evasive methods.

shimmy

• n. A dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
• n. An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
• n. A dance that was popular in the 1920s.
• n. (rare) A sleeveless chemise.
• v. (dance) To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
• v. To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
• v. (intransitive) To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
• v. (intransitive, video games) To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on…

sideslip

• n. (aviation) A flight manoeuvre that moves the aircraft sideways without turning it.
• v. (aviation) To perform a flight manoeuvre that moves the aircraft sideways without turning it.

skid

• n. An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car.
• n. A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its…
• n. (by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
• n. A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
• v. (intransitive) To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard.
• v. (transitive) To protect or support with a skid or skids.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move on skids.
• v. (transitive) To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.

slew

• n. (US) A large amount.
• n. The act, or process of slaying.
• n. A device used for slaying.
• n. A change of position.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
• v. (transitive) To veer a vehicle.
• v. (transitive) To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
• v. (intransitive) To pivot.
• v. (intransitive) To skid.
• v. (transitive, rail transport) to move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
• v. (transitive, Britain, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
• v. simple past tense of slay.
• n. A wet place; a river inlet.

slick

• adj. Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
• adj. Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
• adj. Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
• adj. (often used sarcastically) Clever, making an apparently hard task easy.
• adj. (US, West Coast slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
• adj. sleek; smooth.
• n. A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
• n. Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
• n. A tool used to make something smooth or even.
• n. (sports, automotive) A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
• n. (US, military slang) A helicopter.
• n. (printing) A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative…
• n. A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
• v. To make slick.

slickness

• n. The property of being slick.

slide

• v. (ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To move on a low-friction surface.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.
• v. (intransitive) To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
• v. (transitive) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To pass inadvertently.
• v. (intransitive) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
• v. (music) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cessation of sound.
• v. To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
• n. An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
• n. A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
• n. The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
• n. An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a…
• n. A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
• n. The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
• n. A lever that can be moved in two directions.
• n. A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
• n. A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
• n. (sciences) A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may…
• n. (baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base.
• n. (music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
• n. (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
• n. (geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
• n. (music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal…
• n. (phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly…
• n. A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
• n. (footwear) A shoe that is backless and open-toed.

slip-up

• n. (idiomatic) A mistake or error; a minor misstep.

slipperiness

• n. (uncountable) The property of being slippery.
• n. (countable) The result or product of being slippery.

slue

• v. (transitive, nautical) To rotate something on an axis.
• v. (transitive) To turn something sharply.
• v. (intransitive) To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
• v. (intransitive) To slide off course; to skid.
• n. The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
• n. A slough; a run or wet place.

smoothness

• n. The condition of being smooth.

sneak

• n. One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
• n. A cheat; a con artist; a trickster.
• n. An informer; a tell-tale.
• n. (obsolete, cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter.
• n. (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
• v. (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who…
• v. (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
• v. (transitive, dated) To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
• v. (intransitive) (informal, especially with on) To inform an authority about another's misdemeanours; to…
• adj. In advance; before release to the general public.
• adj. In a stealthy or surreptitious manner.

solecism

• n. An erroneous or improper usage.
• n. (grammar) Error in the use of language.
• n. A faux pas or breach of etiquette; a transgression against the norms of expected behavior.

splay

• v. To display; to spread.
• v. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
• v. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To spay; to castrate.
• v. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
• v. (computing theory, transitive) To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the…
• adj. spread out; turned outward.
• adj. flat and ungainly.
• n. A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at…

stalk

• n. The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
• n. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
• n. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
• n. (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes…
• n. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
• n. (zoology).
• n. (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
• v. (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
• v. (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.^Wp.
• v. (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
• v. (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed…
• n. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
• n. A hunt (of a wild animal).
• v. (intransitive) To walk haughtily.

steal

• v. (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
• v. (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
• v. (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
• v. (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding…
• v. (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
• v. To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the…
• v. (sports, transitive) To dispossess.
• v. (humorous, transitive) To acquire; to get.
• n. The act of stealing.
• n. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
• n. (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball…
• n. (baseball) A stolen base.
• n. (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
• n. (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written…

stem

• n. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
• n. A branch of a family.
• n. An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
• n. (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar,…
• n. A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy,…
• n. A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
• n. (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of…
• n. (slang) A person's leg.
• n. (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
• n. (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
• n. (nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of…
• n. Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
• n. (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
• n. (slang) A crack pipe.
• v. To remove the stem from.
• v. To be caused or derived; to originate.
• v. To descend in a family line.
• v. To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
• v. (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
• v. To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
• v. To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
• v. (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed…
• n. Alternative form of steem.
• n. Alternative form of STEM.

strip

• n. (countable, uncountable) Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
• n. A comic strip.
• n. A landing strip.
• n. A strip steak.
• n. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
• n. (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
• n. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
• n. Striptease.
• n. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
• n. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
• v. (transitive) To remove or take away.
• v. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
• v. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
• v. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
• v. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
• v. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze…
• v. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure…
• v. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the…
• v. (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to…
• v. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
• v. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
• v. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
• v. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
• v. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

teddy

• n. Abbreviation of teddy bear.
• n. By extension, any stuffed toy.
• n. A type of all-in-one piece of women's underwear.

trip

• n. A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
• n. A stumble or misstep.
• n. (figuratively) An error; a failure; a mistake.
• n. A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
• n. A faux pas, a social error.
• n. Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
• n. (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
• n. (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
• n. A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
• n. (obsolete) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
• n. The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
• n. (nautical) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, Scotland, dialect) A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
• n. (obsolete) A troop of men; a host.
• n. A flock of wigeons.
• v. (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot.
• v. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble.
• v. (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety,…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
• v. (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
• v. (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event.
• v. (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
• v. (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
• v. (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
• v. (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
• adj. (poker slang) Of or relating to trips.

undergarment

• n. Any garment worn underneath others, especially one worn next to the skin; an item of underwear.
• n. (religion, in the plural) Temple garments worn by the followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…

unmentionable

• adj. Not mentionable.

worsen

• v. (transitive) To make worse; to impair.
• v. (intransitive) To become worse; to get worse.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get the better of; to worst.

younker

• n. a young man; a lad, youngster.
• n. (obsolete) a young gentleman or knight.
• n. (obsolete) a novice; a simpleton; a dupe.
• n. junker.

youth

• n. (uncountable) The quality or state of being young.
• n. (uncountable) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age;…
• n. (countable) A young person.
• n. (countable) A young man.
• n. (uncountable) (used in plural form) Young persons, collectively.