slip

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Thinned potter's clay used for decorating or coating ceramics.
• noun A part of a plant cut or broken off for grafting or planting; a scion or cutting.
• noun A long narrow piece; a strip.
• noun A slender youthful person.
• noun A small piece of paper, especially a small form, document, or receipt.
• noun A narrow pew in a church.
• transitive verb To make a slip from (a plant or plant part).
• intransitive verb To move smoothly, easily, and quietly.
• intransitive verb To move stealthily; steal.
• intransitive verb To escape, as from a grasp, fastening, or restraint.
• intransitive verb To put on or remove a piece of clothing smoothly or quietly.
• intransitive verb To slide involuntarily and lose one's balance or foothold. synonym: slide.
• intransitive verb To move accidentally out of place or fail to gain traction.
• intransitive verb To pass gradually, easily, or imperceptibly into a different state.
• intransitive verb To decline from a former or standard level; fall off.
• intransitive verb To elapse, especially quickly or without notice.
• intransitive verb To fall into fault or error. Often used with up.
• intransitive verb To place or insert smoothly and quietly.
• intransitive verb To insert (a remark, for example) unobtrusively.
• intransitive verb To put on or remove (clothing) easily or quickly.
• intransitive verb To get loose or free from; elude.
• intransitive verb To fail to be remembered by.
• intransitive verb To release, loose, or unfasten.
• intransitive verb To unleash or free (a dog or hawk) to pursue game.
• intransitive verb To give birth to prematurely. Used of animals.
• intransitive verb To dislocate (a bone).
• intransitive verb To pass (a knitting stitch) from one needle to another without knitting it.
• noun The act or an instance of slipping or sliding.
• noun An accident or mishap, especially resulting in a fall.
• noun An error in conduct or thinking; a mistake.
• noun A slight error or oversight, as in speech or writing.
• noun A docking place for a ship between two piers.
• noun A slipway.
• noun Nautical The difference between a vessel's actual speed through water and the speed at which the vessel would move if the screw were propelling against a solid.
• noun A woman's undergarment of dress length with shoulder straps.
• noun A half-slip.
• noun A pillowcase.
• noun A smooth crack at which rock strata have moved on each other.
• noun A small fault.