different between sweep vs slip

English

Etymology

From Middle English swepen, and perhaps from Old English sw?op, the past tense form of Old English sw?pan, from Proto-West Germanic *swaipan, from Proto-Germanic *swaipan?. Cognate with Early Modern West Frisian swiepe (“whip, cleanse, sweep”), from Old Frisian sw?pa, suepa (“sweep”). See also swoop.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sw?p, IPA^(key): /swi?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Verb

sweep (third-person singular simple present sweeps, present participle sweeping, simple past and past participle swept)

1. (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.

   • I will sweep it with the besom of destruction.

2. (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
   • 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Sophist by Plato, 236d:

     [H]as the course of the argument so accustomed you to agreeing that you were swept by it into a ready assent?

3. (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
5. (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
6. (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
7. (transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
8. (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
9. (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
10. (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
11. To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.

    Their long descending train, / With rubies edg'd and sapphires, swept the plain.

    • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

12. To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
13. To strike with a long stroke.
14. (rowing) To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
15. (nautical) To draw or drag something over.

16. To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.

17. (US, regional, including Ohio and Indiana) to vacuum a carpet or rug

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

sweep (plural sweeps)

1. A single action of sweeping.

2. The person who steers a dragon boat.
3. A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
4. A chimney sweep.
5. A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
6. (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.

7. A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.

8. A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
9. (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
10. Violent and general destruction.

11. (metalworking) A movable templet for making moulds, in loam moulding.
12. (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
13. The compass of any turning body or of any motion.

14. Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
15. A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
16. (rowing) A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.

17. (refining, obsolete) The almond furnace.
18. A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
19. Any of the blades of a windmill.
20. (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
21. Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
    • 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador 2014, p. 28:

      Octopus clambered about from hole to hole and startled sweep blurred away as we passed.

22. An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• sweep in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “sweep”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• weeps

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zweep, from Middle Dutch swepe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sv???p/

Noun

sweep (plural swepe, diminutive swepie)

1. A whip.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English sweep.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?swip/

Noun

sweep m (plural sweeps)

1. (electric guitar) sweep (arpeggio played with a single movement of the picking hand)

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