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grass
English
Etymology
From Middle English gras, gres, gers, from Old English græs, gærs (“grass, blade of grass, herb, young corn, hay, plant; pasture”), from Proto-West Germanic *gras (“grass”), from Proto-Germanic *gras? (“grass”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?reh?- (“to grow”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: gräs, IPA(key): /????s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [?????s]
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): [???ä?s], [?????s]
- Rhymes: -??s
- enPR: gr?s, IPA(key): /??æs/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): [???æs], [?????s], [???e?s]
- (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): [???as], [???æs]
- Rhymes: -æs
Noun
grass (countable and uncountable, plural grasses)
- (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:grass
- (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
- (uncountable) A lawn.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
- (countable, Britain, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:informant
- (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
- (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
- 1960, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Radarman 3 & 2 (volume 1, page 49)
- The problem in radar detection is to have a signal to noise ratio that will allow the echo to be seen through the grass on the radar screen. The use of a long pulse allows a greater average signal strength to be returned in the target echoes.
- 1963, Analysis of Weapons (page 61)
- Some of the scattered waves can be picked up by the receiver and may show up as "grass" on the radar presentation. Weather radars make use of this phenomenon to chart the progress of storms.
- 1960, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Radarman 3 & 2 (volume 1, page 49)
- The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
- Synonyms: breakup, spring, springtime
- (obsolete, figuratively) That which is transitory.
- Synonym: ephemera
- (countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
- (mining) The surface of a mine.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: gras, garas
- ? Fiji Hindi: giraas
Translations
See also
- Poaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Grass (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
grass (third-person singular simple present grasses, present participle grassing, simple past and past participle grassed)
- (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
- Synonyms: flatten, floor, lay low, lay out, knock down, knock out, knock over, strike down
- (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:rat out
- (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
- (transitive) To feed with grass.
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
- (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
- 1903, John Buchan, The African Colony
- Let him hook and land a tigerfish of 20 lb., at the imminent risk of capsizing and joining the company of the engaging crocodiles, or, when he has grassed the fish, of having a finger bitten off by his iron teeth […]
- 1903, John Buchan, The African Colony
Translations
Cimbrian
Alternative forms
- gras (Sette Comuni)
Etymology
From Middle High German gras, from Old High German gras, from Proto-West Germanic *gras, from Proto-Germanic *gras?. Cognate with German Gras, English grass.
Noun
grass m
- (Luserna, Tredici Comuni) grass
References
- “grass” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Romansch
Etymology
From Latin crassus. Compare French graisse.
Noun
grass m
- fat
grass From the web:
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slip
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)
- (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- (obsolete) Mud, slime.
Translations
Etymology 2
Probably from Middle Dutch slippe or Middle Low German slippe.
Noun
slip (plural slips)
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- (obsolete) A descendant, a scion.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- A long, thin piece of something.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Oenone
- moonlit slips of silver cloud
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Oenone
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- (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)
- (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- (intransitive) To err.
- There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart.
- (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
- (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- (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.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- (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 […]
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Alma, Canto II
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
- Profits have slipped over the past six months.
- (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind; to sideslip.
- (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.
- (obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.
- And slip no advantage / That may secure you.
- 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.
- 1707, John Mortimer, The whole Art of Husbandry
- To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
Translations
Noun
slip (plural slips)
- An act or instance of slipping.
- I had a slip on the ice and bruised my hip.
- 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 slipdress.
- A mistake or error.
- a slip of the tongue
- 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.
- (nautical) A slipway.
- (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.
- 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.
- 1852, Samuel Baker, The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (aviation) Sideslip.
- (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.
- (obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir W. Petty to this entry?)
- (ceramics) An aqueous suspension of minerals, usually clay, used, among other things, to stick workpieces together.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- (Britain, 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (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.
- (electrical) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- 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)
- A pair of briefs, a short type of underpants which covers the buttocks but nothing below
- (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)
- tail, part of an upper garment hanging below the waist
Etymology 3
Deverbal from slippen (etymology 4).
Noun
slip m (uncountable)
- skid, an act or instance of slipping.
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: slip
Etymology 4
Verb
slip
- first-person singular present indicative of slippen
- imperative of slippen
Anagrams
- pils
French
Etymology
From English to slip.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /slip/
Noun
slip m (plural slips)
- 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)
- slip:
- an act or instance of slipping.
- Synonyms: tergelincir, selip
- small piece of paper.
- an act or instance of slipping.
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)
- (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)
- Men's or women's underwear (knickers, panties)
- swimming trunks
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
slip
- imperative of slipe
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- (Ijekavian, standard): slij?p
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *sl?p?.
Adjective
slip (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- (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.
- Zato slipi, koji sri?i tamjan nose
- 1762, Matija Antun Relkovi?, Satir iliti divji ?ovik:
- Zar ste slipi, tere ne vidite?
- 1375, N.N., Muka svete Margarite (transcribed from Glagolitic original):
Etymology 2
Neologism, from English slip (of paper).
Noun
slip m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- Credit or debit card receipt
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?lip/, [es?lip]
Noun
slip m (plural slip)
- male briefs
- 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
- sleep
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from English sleep.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /slip/
Noun
slip (nominative plural slips)
- sleep
Declension
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