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Definition of Slipping
1. Adjective. Moving as on a slippery surface. "His slipping and slithering progress over the ice"
Definition of Slipping
1. Verb. (present participle of ''slip'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slipping
1. slip [v] - See also: slip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slipping
Literary usage of Slipping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Machine Design by William Cawthorne Unwin (1903)
"Design of riveted joints when the fractional resistance to slipping is considered.—In
this country the frictional resistance of riveted joints to slipping, ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1914)
"The Viscosity of a Rarefied Gas and slipping. Further it is important to observe
that for the case under consideration where the molecular mean free path is ..."
3. The Elements of Machine Design by William Cawthorne Unwin (1878)
"Then the pulley is toothed, the projections on the pulley fitting the links of
the chain and preventing any slipping, FLAT BF.LTS. 148. ..."
4. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1917)
"... and held from slipping by a cleat nailed to the platform, which is moved about
from car to car as needed, is not a "way" and therefore that the employer ..."
5. Daniel Defoe: How to Know Him by William Peterfield Trent (1916)
"... clouds and descended to the water level about eight times, in that little part
of the journey." The Trade of slipping Gentlemen's Swords Off From Their ..."
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