Slip
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To lose one's traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction. To err. To pass (a note, money, etc.) often covertly To move quickly and often secretively To worsen. To release a bird of prey to go after a quarry.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An act or instance of slipping. A women's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress; a shift. A small piece of paper. A mistake or error (slip of the tongue.) A berth; a space for a ship to moor. A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel. A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure. In ceramics, a thin, slippery mix of clay and water. 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.) 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.
Example sentence: What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.
Splay
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To display; to spread.To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.To spay; to castrate.To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.