different between tree vs slip

English

Etymology

From Middle English tre, tree, treo, treou, trew, trow, from Old English tr?o, tr?ow (“tree, wood, timber, beam, log, stake, stick, grove, cross, rood”), from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trew? (“tree, wood”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?i?/, [t???????i?]
• (General American) enPR: tr?, IPA^(key): /t?i/, [t??????i]
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophone: three (with th-stopping)

Noun

tree (plural trees or (obsolete) treen)

1. A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage.
   • 1992 April 5, "The Full House", Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 2:

     B. Wooster: Of all the places on this great planet of ours, West Neck, Long Island, has chosen to be the most unexciting. The last time anything remotely interesting happened here was in 1842, when a tree fell over. They still talk about it in the village.
2. Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense).

3. An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.

4. A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.

5. The structural frame of a saddle.
6. (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n?1 edges.
7. (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
8. (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.

9. Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.

11. The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
12. (in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
13. (obsolete) A cross or gallows.
14. (obsolete) Wood; timber.

    • In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth.

15. (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
16. (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
17. (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.

Synonyms

Hypernyms

• plant
• (in graph theory): graph

Hyponyms

• See also Category:en:Trees

Meronyms

Derived terms

Proverbs

• money doesn't grow on trees
• see the forest for the trees

Descendants

• Jamaican Creole: chrii

Translations

See also

• Thesaurus:tree
• Category:Trees
• arboreal

References

• Tree (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

tree (third-person singular simple present trees, present participle treeing, simple past and past participle treed)

1. (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
   • 1897, Henry Howard et al. (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Sport, London: Lawrence & Bullen, Volume I, p. 599,^[2]

     When hunted it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed.

2. (transitive) To place in a tree.

   Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.

3. (transitive) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.
   • 1930, Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Chapter 14, p. 165,^[3]

     Two suits and an overcoat hung in the closet over three pairs of carefully treed shoes.

4. (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.

Translations

Anagrams

• reet, rete, teer

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch tree, syncopic form of trede, from Middle Dutch trede. Equivalent to a deverbal from treden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr???/

Noun

tree (plural treë)

1. step (single act of placing the foot when walking)
2. yard (unit of length)

Dutch

Alternative forms

• trede

Etymology

From syncope of trede, from Middle Dutch trede. Equivalent to a deverbal from treden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tre?/, [tre?], [tre??]
• Hyphenation: tree
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

tree m (plural treden or treeën or trees, diminutive treetje n)

1. step (of a staircase), stair
2. step (distance of one step when walking)
3. (archaic, also tred) a unit of length of about 2 to 3 feet, roughly equivalent to a yard

Derived terms

• traptree

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tree

Anagrams

• eert, eter, reet, teer, tere

Manx

Alternative forms

• three

Etymology

From Old Irish trí, from Proto-Celtic *tr?s, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?ri?/

Numeral

tree

1. three

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “trí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Middle English

Noun

tree

1. Alternative form of tre

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian thr?.

Numeral

tree

1. (Heligoland) three

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