Slipping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLIPPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SLIP, to slide suddenly and accidentally
• fail to grip or make proper contact with a surface
• go or move quietly or quickly, without attracting notice
• put (something) in a particular place or position quietly, quickly, or stealthily
• put on or take off (a garment) quickly and easily
• pass or change to a lower, worse, or different condition, typically in a gradual or imperceptible way
• escape or get loose from (a means of restraint)
• release (an animal, typically a hunting dog) from restraint
• move (a stitch) to the other needle without knitting it
• release (the clutch of a motor vehicle) slightly or for a moment
• (of an animal) produce (dead young) prematurely; abort
• lose one's footing and slide unintentionally for a short distance
• (of an object) accidentally slide or move out of position or from someone's grasp
• be behaving in a way that is not up to one's usual level of performance
• (of a thought or fact) fail to be remembered by (one's mind or memory); elude (one's notice)
• disengage (a ship's anchor) when leaving a port in haste
NOUN:
• an act of sliding unintentionally for a short distance
• relative movement of an object or surface and a solid surface in contact with it.
• a reduction in the movement of a pulley or other mechanism due to slipping of the belt, rope, etc.
• a sideways movement of an aircraft in flight, typically downwards towards the centre of curvature of a turn
• the extent of relative horizontal displacement of corresponding points on either side of a fault plane
• a fall to a lower level or standard
• a minor or careless mistake
• a loose-fitting garment, typically a short petticoat
• a fielding position (often one of two or more in an arc) close behind the batsman on the off side, for catching balls edged by the batsman
• a fielder at slip.
• a leash which enables a dog to be released quickly
• a small piece of paper, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information
• a long, narrow strip of a thin material such as wood.
• a cutting taken from a plant for grafting or planting; a scion.
• a creamy mixture of clay, water, and typically a pigment of some kind, used especially for decorating earthenware.
• a printer's proof on a long piece of paper; a galley proof.
ADJECTIVE:
• moving as on a slippery surface
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• present participle of slip

Words related to SLIPPING

slip6 slipped12 slips7 slipt7

Words that contain SLIPPING

unslipping15 overslipping20 sideslipping18

How to use SLIPPING in a sentence

• Grayson that Jane was breaking the rules by slipping out nights and setting a bad example to the younger girls if any of them knew about it.
• If the Skis are slipping back, you are going too steep and should turn off and traverse instead.
• In arguing this dialectic thesis, one must avoid slipping from the logical into the physical point of view.
• The only alarming incident was the slipping of the chains when Day tried to start on some ice very thinly covered with snow.
• Once he had hated both, but now he thought of them tenderly as links with, the peaceful boyhood that was slipping away.
• Was it pure hallucination? He knew he was slipping, and he battled for his sanity with the same silent energy he had formerly displayed against Pawkins.
• Carefully slipping our rope from the tree, we let the tide carry us out a little way before starting an engine.
• Once or twice he fell, as though slipping on the rocks, for the rain had begun again.
• Down the road his eye caught a movement as if someone were slipping into the bushes.
• Was it the storm or the army that had frightened them? Slipping and sliding in his haste, he descended the slope without care for the sound he made.
• To escape from five mounted men by slipping off the horse and running for it was manifestly impossible.
• The waist was too short and always slipping from the belt of wrinkled cloth beneath which she kept trying to stuff it.
• There was much screaming and calling, slipping from the rocks into the pool and clambering from the pool back on to the rocks.
• But at the same time he felt the rope slipping over his hands.
• To use that fire escape one must catch the branch, and hold it without slipping, while he swung and groped with his feet for another limb below.
• He handles the nets lovingly, as if he were glad to feel them slipping through his fingers again.
• To his intense joy, he found that after a little while, he was slipping off the slime and getting into deeper water.
• All at once he turned his battery on the students gathering below the crush, trying to find a way through the kicking, slipping mass on the narrow stairs.
• Make a short bend in the wire at the lower point of the blossom on the outside to prevent its slipping down on the wire.
• Oh, if he could only wipe his palm and that rim with a dry handkerchief! He tightened his slipping fingers again and again.
• And to follow meant slipping right out of all the world he had ever known.
• Here was the opportunity, the unhoped-for opportunity, and it was slipping away.
• So, slipping, struggling, fighting, he forced his way, and, like Diamond, he was guided by an instinct that could not err.
• And yet, in spite of all his efforts, he knew himself to be slipping, slowly but surely slipping.
• She was already slipping into the background of my interest.
• The dwelling was inviting, at once slipping into the dusk and emerging by reason of the warm glow within.
• The afternoon sun would soon be slipping down behind the mountains.
• In ever-growing excitement I watched the houses slipping behind us as we swept along.

Similar words containing SLIPP without suffix ing

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