different between dash vs slip

English

Etymology

From Middle English daschen, dassen, from Danish daske (“to slap, strike”), related to Swedish daska (“to smack, slap, spank”), of obscure origin. Compare German tatschen (“to grope, paw”), Old English dw?s?an (“to quell, put out, destroy, extinguish”). See also adwesch, dush.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

dash (plural dashes)

1. (typography) Any of the following symbols: ? (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ? (horizontal bar).
   1. (computing) A hyphen or minus sign.
2. (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
3. A short run, flight.

4. A rushing or violent onset.
5. Violent strike; a whack.

6. A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.

   Add a dash of vinegar.

7. (figuratively, by extension) A slight admixture.

   There is a dash of craziness in his personality.

8. Ostentatious vigor.

   Aren't we full of dash this morning?

9. A dashboard.
   • 1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 31:

     The dash clock said 2:38 when […] I turned off a dirt road […] .

10. (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
    • 1992, George B. N. Ayittey, Africa betrayed (page 44)

      The traditional practice of offering gifts or "dash" to chiefs has often been misinterpreted by scholars to provide a cultural explanation for the pervasive incidence of bribery and corruption in modern Africa.

    • 2006, Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo, The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950 (page 99)

      Writing in 1924 on a similar situation in Ugep, the political officer, Mr. S. T. Harvey noted: "In the old days there was no specified dowry but merely dashes given to the father-in-law […]

    • 2008, Lizzie Williams, Nigeria: The Bradt Travel Guide (page 84)

      The only other times you'll be asked for a dash is from beggars.

11. (dated, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)
    • 1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Chapter VI, serialized in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, (VIII, no. 43, Dec 1853) p. 118

      Sir Thomas looks as if to ask what the dash is that to you! but wanting still to go to India again, and knowing how strong the Newcomes are in Leadenhall Street, he thinks it necessary to be civil to the young cub, and swallows his pride once more into his waistband.

      Comment: Some editions leave this passage out. Of those that include it, some change the 'you!' to 'you?'.

    • 1884, Lord Robert Gower, My Reminiscences, reprinted in "The Evening Lamp", The Christian Union, (29) 22, (May 29, 1884) p. 524

      Who the dash is this person whom none of us know? and what the dash does he do here?

Hypernyms

• punctuation mark

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:dash

Derived terms

• dashing
• (typography): em dash, en dash
• (dashboard): dashcam, dash cam

Translations

See also

Punctuation

Verb

dash (third-person singular simple present dashes, present participle dashing, simple past and past participle dashed)

1. (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
2. (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.

   I have to dash now. See you soon.

3. (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).

   He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     "`Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes.'

   • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 4

     Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.

4. (transitive) To throw violently.

   The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.

   • If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound.

5. (transitive, intransitive, sometimes figuratively) To sprinkle; to splatter.

   • On each hand the gushing waters play, / And down the rough cascade white-dashing fall.

   • The very source and fount of day / Is dash'd with wandering isles of night.
6. (transitive, dated) To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.

   to dash wine with water

7. (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.

   Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
8. (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.

   Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.

9. (transitive) To complete hastily, usually with down or off.

   He dashed down his eggs, she dashed off her homework

10. (transitive) To draw or write quickly; jot.
    • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

      "Scarborough," Mrs. Flanders wrote on the envelope, and dashed a bold line beneath; it was her native town; the hub of the universe.

    • 2003, Robert Andrews, A Murder of Promise (page 198)

      Going out the door, he grabbed a windbreaker and dashed a note to his father and left it on the entry table.

Derived terms

• dash off
• gas and dash

Translations

Interjection

dash

1. (euphemistic) Damn!

Translations

See also

• hyphen
• minus sign

Anagrams

• ADHs, SAHD, Sadh, dahs, shad

Albanian

Etymology

Disputed. Potentially from Proto-Albanian *dauša, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eusóm (compare English deer, Lithuanian da?sos (“upper air; heaven”)). Alternatively from Proto-Albanian *dalša, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?-l- (compare Ossetian ?????? (dalis?, “young lamb”)).

Noun

dash m (indefinite plural desh, definite singular dashi, definite plural deshtë)

1. ram (male sheep)

Derived terms

• Dash
• Dashnor

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English dash

Noun

dash m (definite singular dashen, indefinite plural dasher, definite plural dashene)

1. a dash (small amount)
2. short for dashbord.

References

• “dash” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English dash

Noun

dash m (definite singular dashen, indefinite plural dashar, definite plural dashane)

1. a dash (small amount)
2. short for dashbord.

References

• “dash” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Ojibwe

Alternative forms

• idash
• -sh

Adverb

dash

1. and, and then, then

2. but

Usage notes

dash comes in the second position in a clause, indicating that one thing happened after another. It can also have a contrastive meaning and then may be translated with but.

Derived terms

• aaniin dash (“why?”)
• mii dash (“and then”)

See also

• aanawi (“although, but”)
• apii (“then”)
• gaye (“as for, also”)
• miinawaa (“and again”)

References

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/dash-adv-conj

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sl?p, IPA^(key): /sl?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English slyp, slep, slyppe, from Old English slyp, slyppe, slipa (“a viscous, slimy substance”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sleupan? (“to slip, sneak”), possibly connected with Proto-Indo-European *slewb-, *slewb?- (“slip, slide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak, crawl”); or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *slippijan? (“to glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyb- (“slimy; to glide”). Compare Old English sl?pan (“to slip, glide”), Old English c?slyppe, c?sloppe (“cowslip”).

Noun

slip (countable and uncountable, plural slips)

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

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from Middle Dutch slippe or Middle Low German slippe.

Noun

slip (plural slips)

1. A twig or shoot; a cutting.

2. (obsolete) A descendant, a scion.
3. A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).

4. A long, thin piece of something.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Oenone

     moonlit slips of silver cloud

5. A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.

6. (marine insurance) 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.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Apparently from Middle Low German slippen. Cognate to Dutch slippen, German schlüpfen. Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *slewb?- (“slip, slide”).

Verb

slip (third-person singular simple present slips, present participle slipping, simple past and past participle slipped or (obsolete) slipt)

1. (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
2. (intransitive) To err.

   • There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart.

3. (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
4. (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.

5. (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.

6. (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull

     He tried to slip a powder into her drink.

7. (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Alma, Canto II

     Thus one tradesman slips away, / To give his partner fairer play.

   • Thrice the flitting shadow slipped away.

   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     We slipped along the hedges, noiseless and swift […]

8. (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.

   Profits have slipped over the past six months.
9. (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
10. (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind; to sideslip.
11. (transitive, 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.
12. (obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.

    • And slip no advantage / That may secure you.

13. To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
    • 1707, John Mortimer, The whole Art of Husbandry

      The branches also may be slipped and planted.

14. To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.

15. To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
16. (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.

Translations

Noun

slip (plural slips)

1. An act or instance of slipping.

   I had a slip on the ice and bruised my hip.

2. 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.
3. A slipdress.
4. A mistake or error.

   a slip of the tongue

   • This good man's slip mended his pace to martyrdom.

5. (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
6. (nautical) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
7. (nautical) A slipway.
8. (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
9. (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.)
10. 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.
11. 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.
    • 1852, Samuel Baker, The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon

      We stalked over the extensive plains with Killbuck and Lena in the slips, in search of deer.

12. An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.

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13. (aviation) Sideslip.
14. (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.
15. (dated) A child's pinafore.
16. An outside covering or case.

17. (obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.

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18. Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.

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19. (ceramics) An aqueous suspension of minerals, usually clay, used, among other things, to stick workpieces together.
20. A particular quantity of yarn.
21. (Britain, dated) A narrow passage between buildings.
22. (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
23. (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.

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24. (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.
25. (electrical) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
26. 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

Translations

Derived terms

• (undergarment): full slip, waist slip

Related terms

References

• slip at OneLook Dictionary Search
• slip in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• LIPs, LISP, LSPI, Lisp, lips, lisp, pils

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?p/
• Hyphenation: slip
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From English slip, probably via French slip. The English word may itself be derived from Middle Dutch slippen (etymology 3 and 4) below.

Noun

slip f (plural slips, diminutive slipje n)

1. A pair of briefs, a short type of underpants which covers the buttocks but nothing below
2. (by extension, for women) A pair of knickers, any female underpants

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch slippe, sleppe. Related with German Schlips (“necktie”).

Noun

slip f (plural slippen, diminutive slipje n)

1. tail, part of an upper garment hanging below the waist

Etymology 3

Deverbal from slippen (etymology 4).

Noun

slip m (uncountable)

1. skid, an act or instance of slipping.

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: slip

Etymology 4

Verb

slip

1. first-person singular present indicative of slippen
2. imperative of slippen

Anagrams

• pils

French

Etymology

From English to slip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slip/

Noun

slip m (plural slips)

1. briefs (men's underwear)

Derived terms

• slip de bain

Further reading

• “slip” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• plis

Indonesian

Etymology 1

• From Dutch slip, the deverbal of slippen. Apparently from Middle Low German slippen. Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *slewb?- (“slip, slide”).
• Semantic loan from English slip (“small piece of paper”) for sense of small piece of paper, which came from above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?slip]
• Hyphenation: slip

Noun

slip (first-person possessive slipku, second-person possessive slipmu, third-person possessive slipnya)

1. slip:
   1. an act or instance of slipping.

      Synonyms: tergelincir, selip

   2. small piece of paper.

Etymology 2

From English slip, from Middle English slyp, slep, slyppe, from Old English slyp, slyppe, slipa (“a viscous, slimy substance”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sleupan? (“to slip, sneak”), possibly connected with Proto-Indo-European *slewb-, *slewb?- (“slip, slide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak, crawl”); or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *slippijan? (“to glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyb- (“slimy; to glide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?slip]
• Hyphenation: slip

Noun

slip (first-person possessive slipku, second-person possessive slipmu, third-person possessive slipnya)

1. (archaeology, ceramics) slip: a thin, slippery mix of clay and water.

Further reading

• “slip” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

slip m (invariable)

1. Men's or women's underwear (knickers, panties)
2. swimming trunks

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

slip

1. imperative of slipe

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian, standard): slij?p

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *sl?p?.

Adjective

slip (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (Chakavian, Ikavian) blind
   • 1375, N.N., Muka svete Margarite (transcribed from Glagolitic original):

     Slipi jeste [luduju?i],

     vaše boge veruju?i

     kî nigdare vas ne sliše

     ni vas koga [kad] utiše.

   • late 15th century or early 16th century, Šiško Men?eti?, Ako ?eš, Stijepo moj, za mene što stvorit:

     Ter je prem sasma slip tko ne zri suna?ce

   • 1546, Petar Zorani?, Planine:

     To j' uzrok da travi tako slip bog ljubven,

     a ne kako pravi tkogod nenau?en.

   • 1559, Marin Drži?, Hekuba:

     Ma ovo nadvor gre u srdžbi i u gnijevu vas,

     krv s o?i slipih tre, s oružjem gre put nas;

   • 1630s, Ivan Gunduli?, Osman:

     I gdi unutri o mrak slipi

     Nepoznat se junak hvata

   • 1759, Antun Kanižli?

     Zato slipi, koji sri?i tamjan nose

     i u tugah svojih pomo? od nje prose;

     slipi, koji scine, da je ona ku?a,

     gdi ona prosine, svitla i mogu?a,

     i da dili blago slipa vila svima,

     i kad joj je drago, opet uzme njima.

   • 1762, Matija Antun Relkovi?, Satir iliti divji ?ovik:

     Zar ste slipi, tere ne vidite?

Etymology 2

Neologism, from English slip (of paper).

Noun

slip m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. Credit or debit card receipt

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?lip/, [es?lip]

Noun

slip m (plural slip)

1. male briefs
2. female underpants(less usual meaning)

References

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[3]

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English sleep.

Verb

slip

1. sleep

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English sleep.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slip/

Noun

slip (nominative plural slips)

1. sleep

Declension