Slide vs. Slipping — What's the Difference?

To move over a surface while maintaining smooth continuous contact.

Slipping is a technique used in boxing that is similar to bobbing. It is considered one of the four basic defensive strategies, along with blocking, holding, and clinching.

To participate in a sport that involves such movement

To move smoothly, easily, and quietly

To lose a secure footing or positioning; slip

To move stealthily; steal

To pass smoothly and quietly; glide

To escape, as from a grasp, fastening, or restraint

(Baseball) To drop down from a running into a lying or diving position when approaching a base so as to avoid being tagged out.

To put on or remove a piece of clothing smoothly or quietly

To be ignored or not dealt with; drop

To slide involuntarily and lose one's balance or foothold.

To decrease

To move accidentally out of place or fail to gain traction

To become less favorable or less desirable

To pass gradually, easily, or imperceptibly into a different state

To cause to slide or slip

To decline from a former or standard level; fall off

To place covertly or deftly

To elapse, especially quickly or without notice

A sliding movement or action.

To fall into fault or error. Often used with up.

A smooth, usually inclined surface or track for sliding

To place or insert smoothly and quietly

A playground apparatus for children to slide on, typically consisting of a smooth chute climbed onto by means of a ladder.

To insert (a remark, for example) unobtrusively

A part that operates by sliding, as the U-shaped section of tube on a trombone that is moved to change the pitch.

To put on or remove (clothing) easily or quickly

A period of decline or loss

To get loose or free from; elude

An image on a transparent base for projection on a screen.

To fail to be remembered by

One of a series of images projected digitally as part of a presentation.

To release, loose, or unfasten

A small glass plate for mounting specimens to be examined under a microscope.

To unleash or free (a dog or hawk) to pursue game.

A fall of a mass of rock, earth, or snow down a slope; an avalanche or landslide.

To give birth to prematurely. Used of animals.

A backless shoe with an open toe.

To dislocate (a bone).

A slight portamento used in violin playing, passing quickly from one note to another.

To pass (a knitting stitch) from one needle to another without knitting it.

An ornamentation consisting of two grace notes approaching the main note.

To make a slip from (a plant or plant part).

A small metal or glass tube worn over a finger or held in the hand, used in playing bottleneck-style guitar.

The act or an instance of slipping or sliding.

The bottleneck style of guitar playing.

An accident or mishap, especially resulting in a fall.

(ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.

An error in conduct or thinking; a mistake.

(intransitive) To move on a low-friction surface.

A slight error or oversight, as in speech or writing

To drop down and skid into a base.

A docking place for a ship between two piers.

(intransitive) To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.

A slipway.

(transitive) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.

(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.

(transitive) To subtly direct a facial expression at (someone).

A woman's undergarment of dress length with shoulder straps.

To pass inadvertently.

A half-slip.

(intransitive) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.

A pillowcase.

To decrease in amount or value.

A smooth crack at which rock strata have moved on each other.

(music) To smoothly pass from one note to another by bending the pitch upwards or downwards.

A small fault.

(regional) To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.

The relative displacement of formerly adjacent points on opposite sides of a fault.

To go; to move from one place or to another.

The difference between optimal and actual output in a mechanical device.

(soccer) To kick so that the ball slides along the ground with little or no turning.

Movement between two parts where none should exist, as between a pulley and a belt.

An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.

A sideways movement of an airplane when banked too far.

A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.

A part of a plant cut or broken off for grafting or planting; a scion or cutting.

The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.

A long narrow piece; a strip.

An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.

A slender youthful person

A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.

A small piece of paper, especially a small form, document, or receipt

The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.

A narrow pew in a church.

A lever that can be moved in two directions.

The act of something that slips; a slip; a skidding or sudden loosening motion.

A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.

Moving as on a slippery surface;

(photography) A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.

A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.

(sciences) A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.

(baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base

A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.

A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.

(geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.

(music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.

(phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.

A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.

A pocket in one's pants (trousers).

(footwear) A shoe that is backless and open-toed.

(speech therapy) A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.

A promiscuous woman, slut.

To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.

Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet.

To pass inadvertently.

To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.

To slip when walking or standing; to fall.

To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.

To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.

To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.

To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.

The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.

Smooth, even passage or progress.

That on which anything moves by sliding.

That which operates by sliding.

A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope.

The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide.

A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.

A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.

A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.

Same as Guide bar, under Guide.

A small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study

(geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.

(music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale;

Plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide

The act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it;

A transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector

Sloping channel through which things can descend

Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner;

To pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly;

Move smoothly along a surface;