SLIPS

"SLIPS" is a plural of: slip.

Date "SLIPS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Computing

Building & Civil Engineering

Mining

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: SLIPS

Danish (necktie, tie), Faeroese (necktie, tie), French (briefs, slip), Norwegian (necktie, tie), Swedish (necktie, neck-tie, tie).

It stalks me, slips in bringing with it the smell of wet dirt and a confined space. (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor)

As the shadow falls and the daylight slips away to the night -- the night that lasts forever -- the night that is your friend, a friend of pain and pleasure. (Rockula; writing credit: Luca Bercovici; Jefery Levy)

We'd love to join you and Scooby in the Mystery Machine for another zany adventure, but we have to turn in our permission slips before homeroom (Smallville; writing credit: Richard Pinto; Sharat Sardana)

She's packed a bag she slips the keys out of his pocket (Birmingham; performing artist: Amanda Marshall)

When the one that I'm lovin' slips around (The Circle Is Small; performing artist: Gordon Lightfoot)

Just because my composure sort of slips ("Chances Are"; performing artist: Johnny Mathis)

It slips away, all your money won't another minute buy (Dust in the Wind; performing artist: KANSAS)

Stools keep changin' faces and the night just slips away (Midnight At The Lost & Found; performing artist: Meat Loaf)

Ti slips og et hjerte (1967)

Fish and Slips (1962)

Sales Slips (1939)

Wedding Slips (1928)

Slips and Slackers (1917)

Funny How Time Slips Away (performing artist: Joe Hinton)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Plant Cuttings and Slips; Live Trees and Plants; and Bulbs, Tubers, and Rhizomes of Flowering or of Foliage Plants: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Batasystems-Order Slips 3 Part 84-0256 (3-Part/84-0256) (reference)

• Menopause and the Mind: The Complete Guide to Coping With Cognitive Effects of Perimenopause and Menopause, Including Memory Loss, Foggy Thinking, and Verbal Slips (reference)

• Opportunity Slips (reference)

• Slips of the Ear: Errors in the Perception of Casual Conversation (reference)

• Slips of the Tongue and Language Production (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Focus on Safety: Slips, Trips & Falls (reference)

• Freeride Revolution: The Best Tricks, Whips, Slips and Slams of the Freestyle Moto-X Championship (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Backyard boat slips along Ocean Avenue. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Interior of the wet slips, with the incomplete USS Putnam (Destroyer # 287, builder's Hull # 367) visible just behind the structural framework at left. Note barrels and other components for 4"/50 guns, in the left foreground, and railroad tank cars. Some of the material present is marked for Hulls 369 and 370 (respectively USS Flusser, Destroyer # 289, and USS Dale, Destroyer # 290). Photograph is dated 18 November 1919. Credit: NAVY.

An LST slips into Inchon harbor in the early hours of 15 September 1950, just prior to the landings there. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Great mistakes in the ruling part, many wrong and inconvenient laws, and all the slips of human frailty, will be born by the people without mutiny or murmur. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

At this time, the patient must present a number of previously collected tickets, registration slips (gua hao), and referrals which authorize care; those without such paperwork will be turned away. In addition, patients must maintain and update their own personal medical records. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

A major program, the "Nautical Route of the Sea of Cortes" plans 10,500 hotel rooms, 22,000 marina slips and 53,000 new jobs. (references)

Ecuador

Through this system, sales receipts (sales slips, commercial invoices, bank credit notes, etc.) must be submitted for any transaction over USD 4. (references)

Venezuela

When several organizations are involved in the final selection, the deadline frequently slips and bidders are asked to provide a date up to which they will hold their prices. (references)

Trade

India

The authorized dealer handles documents: (a) in cases where the exporter has received the export proceeds directly from the overseas buyer in the form of a bank draft, pay order, bankers check, and foreign currency traveler's checks without any monetary limit, and (b) in cases where the exporter has received export proceeds, from goods sold to overseas buyers in the Indian currency, from the credit card servicing banks either by way of reimbursement against charge slips signed by the overseas buyer or as instantaneous credit to the exporters bank account in India. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "SLIPS": time slips away. Additional references.

Ending with "SLIPS": betting-slips, call-slips, pay-slips.

Bulgarian 

бански, плувки. (various references)

Chinese 

滑动 (Glided, Gliding, Skidded, Skidding, SLIP). (various references)

Danish

kiler til borerør (drill-pipe slips), kiler (keys and pins, rolling dog). (various references)

Dutch

wig (wedge), buisklemkeggen, boorpijpkeggen (drill-pipe slips). (various references)

Finnish

teljet (drill-pipe slips, rolling dog), poraustelki (rolling dog), poraputken teljet (drill-pipe slips), kiilapuristin. (various references)

French

coins grippeurs, coins de tige de forage (drill-pipe slips), coins de retenue, coins (drill-pipe slips). (various references)

German

Rohrklemmkeile, Rohrkeilklemmen, Haltekeil (rolling dog), Drehkeil (rolling dog), Bohrrohrrutscher (drill-pipe slips), Bohrrohrgleiter (drill-pipe slips). (various references)

Greek 

κυκλικοί σφιγκτήρες γεωτρητικού στελέχους (drill-pipe slips), κυκλικοί σφιγκτήρες. (various references)

Hungarian

színfalak (wings), kulisszák (wings), háromszögnadrág. (various references)

Italian

tre o quattro uomini del piano sonda addetti all'impianto di perforazione rotary per fissare i cunei di tenuta delle aste,per manovrare le chiavi di avvitamento-svitamento delle stesse,aprire e chiudere gli elevatori etc.,e in generale per manovrare attre (and generally handle equipment around the rig floor, etc., handle the tongs or wrenches for screwing up or unscrewing the drill pipe, latch and unlatch the elevators, ployed on the rotary drilling rig to set the slips to hold the drill pipe, three or four floormen are e), rettifica delle evidenti inesattezze (rectify obvious slips), per evitare l'introduzione di un punto debole nella batteria,é necessario fra l'altro sorvegliare la deformazione del materiale di rivestimento della tavola rotante e dei cunei di manovra (to avoid introducing a weak point into the drill string it is necessary to check the condition of the kelly bushing and handling slips), innesto di vite (slips from vines). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

切り枝 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きりえ� . (various references)

Korean 

슬립 (SLIP). (various references)

Manx

er ny sthockyn (on the slips). (various references)

Pig Latin

ipsslay

Portuguese

garra de retenção (rolling dog), cunhas (drill-pipe slips, spider, wedge ring), cunha de retenção (rolling dog). (various references)

Romanian

slip (slip), chiloţi (drawers, knickers, pants, trunks). (various references)

Russian 

скользить (glide, scud, sideslipped, skid, slid, slide, slip, slipped, slipping, slither). (various references)

Spanish

cuñas de sujeción, cuñas de las varillas de perforación (drill-pipe slips), cuña de retención (rolling dog). (various references)

Swedish

slips till borrör (drill-pipe slips), rörklämkil, kil (chock, cleat, cotter, Gib, Gore, gusset, quoin, wedge), glidare (drill-pipe slips). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "SLIPS": slipshod, slipslop, slipslops, slipsole, slipsoles, slipstream, slipstreamed, slipstreaming, slipstreams. (additional references)

Words ending with "SLIPS": coverslips, cowslips, landslips, overslips, sideslips. (additional references)

Misspellings

"SLIPS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alips, elips, glips, saleps, scisp, slids, slios, sliph, slipp, slipt, slipy, Slisz, Slupsk, slys. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lisps.

-1 letter: lips, lisp, piss, psis, sips, slip.

-2 letters: lip, lis, pis, psi, sip, sis.

-3 letters: is, li, pi, si.

+1 letter: plisse, slipes, spails, speils, spiels, spiles, spills, splits, spoils.

+2 letters: dispels, espials, hipless, lapises, lipases, lipless, lispers, palsies, pastils, pelisse, pensils, pistils, pistols, plisses, salpids, simples, slimpsy, slipups, spilths, spinals, spinels, spirals, spitals, splices, spliffs, splines, splints, stipels, swiples, tipless, zipless.

+3 letters: alphosis, aplasias, apostils, cowslips, despoils, diploses, diplosis, displays, disposal, dripless, eclipses, eclipsis, ellipses, ellipsis, epistles, epsilons, glimpses, haplosis, impulses, inclasps, insculps, limpness, milksops, misplans, misplays, misspell, misspelt, painless, paisleys, palmists, palships, pasquils, passible, pelisses, pelvises, phylesis, pileless, pilsners, pipeless, pistoles, pithless, pitiless, plasmids, plasmins, plastics, plastids, plenisms, plenists, plimsols, pliskies, plosions, plosives, polishes, pollists, poloists, possible, possibly, prissily, psalmist, psiloses, psilosis, psyllids, pulsions, pusslies, pusslike, resplits, salpians, saplings, sculpins, shiplaps, sideslip, simplest, simplism, simplist, slipcase, slipless, slipouts, slippers, slipshod, slipslop, slipsole, slipways, spaniels, specials, spicules, spiegels, spielers, spilings, spillers, spindles, spinless, spinules, spirulas, spittles, splenius, splicers, spoilers, stipples, stipules, sulphids, supplies, swipples, sylphids, sylphish, syphilis, topsails, topsoils, upsilons.