| chase | | |
| n. (act) | 1. chase, following, pursual, pursuit | the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture.; "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit" |
| ~ movement, move, motion | the act of changing location from one place to another.; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path" |
| ~ tracking, trailing | the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind. |
| ~ shadowing, tailing | the act of following someone secretly. |
| ~ stalking, stalk | the act of following prey stealthily. |
| n. (person) | 2. chase, salmon p. chase, salmon portland chase | United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873). |
| ~ chief justice | the judge who presides over a supreme court. |
| ~ pol, political leader, politico, politician | a person active in party politics. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. chase | a rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time. |
| ~ frame | the framework for a pair of eyeglasses. |
| v. (motion) | 4. chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail | go after with the intent to catch.; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit" |
| ~ tree | chase an animal up a tree.; "the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it"; "her dog likes to tree squirrels" |
| ~ pursue, follow | follow in or as if in pursuit.; "The police car pursued the suspected attacker"; "Her bad deed followed her and haunted her dreams all her life" |
| ~ quest | search the trail of (game).; "The dog went off and quested" |
| ~ hound, hunt, trace | pursue or chase relentlessly.; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him" |
| ~ run down | pursue until captured.; "They ran down the fugitive" |
| v. (social) | 5. chase, chase after | pursue someone sexually or romantically. |
| ~ court, romance, solicit, woo | make amorous advances towards.; "John is courting Mary" |
| v. (contact) | 6. chase | cut a groove into.; "chase silver" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| v. (contact) | 7. chamfer, chase, furrow | cut a furrow into a columns. |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| slip | | |
| n. (act) | 1. faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, slip, solecism | a socially awkward or tactless act. |
| ~ blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, bloomer, fuckup, pratfall | an embarrassing mistake. |
| n. (act) | 2. miscue, parapraxis, slip, slip-up | a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.. |
| ~ error, fault, mistake | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" |
| ~ freudian slip | a slip-up that (according to Sigmund Freud) results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals. |
| n. (substance) | 3. slip | potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics. |
| ~ potter's clay, potter's earth | clay that does not contain any iron; used in making pottery or for modeling. |
| n. (plant) | 4. cutting, slip | a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting. |
| ~ quickset | cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines.; "a quickset of a vine planted in a vineyard" |
| ~ stalk, stem | a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ. |
| n. (person) | 5. slip | a young and slender person.; "he's a mere slip of a lad" |
| ~ spring chicken, young person, younker, youth | a young person (especially a young man or boy). |
| n. (location) | 6. berth, moorage, mooring, slip | a place where a craft can be made fast. |
| ~ anchorage ground, anchorage | place for vessels to anchor. |
| n. (event) | 7. slip, trip | an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall.; "he blamed his slip on the ice"; "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills" |
| ~ fall, tumble, spill | a sudden drop from an upright position.; "he had a nasty spill on the ice" |
| ~ misadventure, mischance, mishap | an instance of misfortune. |
| n. (attribute) | 8. slick, slickness, slip, slipperiness | a slippery smoothness.; "he could feel the slickness of the tiller" |
| ~ smoothness | a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch.; "admiring the slim smoothness of her thighs"; "some artists prefer the smoothness of a board" |
| n. (artifact) | 9. slip, strip | artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material. |
| ~ artefact, artifact | a man-made object taken as a whole. |
| ~ band | a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body). |
| ~ ring, band | a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration). |
| ~ band | a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration. |
| ~ cramp iron, cramp | a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together. |
| ~ reef | one of several strips across a sail that can be taken in or rolled up to lessen the area of the sail that is exposed to the wind. |
| ~ leading, lead | thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing. |
| ~ mullion | a nonstructural vertical strip between the casements or panes of a window (or the panels of a screen). |
| ~ typewriter ribbon, ribbon | a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter. |
| ~ screed | an accurately levelled strip of material placed on a wall or floor as guide for the even application of plaster or concrete. |
| ~ stay | a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset). |
| ~ tab | a short strip of material attached to or projecting from something in order to facilitate opening or identifying or handling it.; "pull the tab to open the can"; "files with a red tab will be stored separately"; "the collar has a tab with a button hole"; "the filing cards were organized by cards having indexed tabs" |
| ~ tape | a long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening.; "he used a piece of tape for a belt"; "he wrapped a tape around the package" |
| ~ weather strip, weather stripping, weatherstrip, weatherstripping | a narrow strip of material to cover the joint of a door or window to exclude the cold. |
| n. (artifact) | 10. slip, slip of paper | a small sheet of paper.; "a receipt slip" |
| ~ piece of paper, sheet of paper, sheet | paper used for writing or printing. |
| n. (artifact) | 11. chemise, shift, shimmy, slip, teddy | a woman's sleeveless undergarment. |
| ~ shoulder strap, strap | a band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag. |
| ~ undergarment, unmentionable | a garment worn under other garments. |
| n. (artifact) | 12. case, pillow slip, pillowcase, slip | bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow.; "the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase" |
| ~ bed linen | linen or cotton articles for a bed (as sheets and pillowcases). |
| n. (act) | 13. sideslip, skid, slip | an unexpected slide. |
| ~ glide, coast, slide | the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it.; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope" |
| n. (act) | 14. sideslip, slip | a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air. |
| ~ airplane maneuver, flight maneuver | a maneuver executed by an aircraft. |
| n. (act) | 15. eluding, elusion, slip | the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning). |
| ~ evasion | the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver. |
| v. (motion) | 16. slip, steal | move stealthily.; "The ship slipped away in the darkness" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| v. (change) | 17. slip | insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly.; "He slipped some money into the waiter's hand" |
| ~ put in, inclose, insert, stick in, introduce, enclose | introduce.; "Insert your ticket here" |
| v. (motion) | 18. skid, slew, slide, slip, slue | move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner.; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" |
| ~ submarine | move forward or under in a sliding motion.; "The child was injured when he submarined under the safety belt of the car" |
| ~ skid | slide without control.; "the car skidded in the curve on the wet road" |
| ~ side-slip | slide sideways through the air in a downward direction in an airplane along an inclined lateral axis. |
| ~ glide | move smoothly and effortlessly. |
| v. (change) | 19. drop away, drop off, fall away, slip | get worse.; "My grades are slipping" |
| ~ decline, worsen | grow worse.; "Conditions in the slum worsened" |
| ~ backslide, lapse | drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards. |
| v. (motion) | 20. slip | move smoothly and easily.; "the bolt slipped into place"; "water slipped from the polished marble" |
| ~ escape, get away, break loose | run away from confinement.; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison" |
| v. (cognition) | 21. err, mistake, slip | to make a mistake or be incorrect. |
| ~ misremember | remember incorrectly.; "I misremembered the date" |
| ~ slip up, trip up, stumble | make an error.; "She slipped up and revealed the name" |
| ~ misjudge | judge incorrectly. |
| ~ fall for | be deceived, duped, or entrapped by.; "He fell for her charms"; "He fell for the con man's story" |
| v. (possession) | 22. slip, sneak | pass on stealthily.; "He slipped me the key when nobody was looking" |
| ~ hand, pass on, turn over, pass, reach, give | place into the hands or custody of.; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers" |
| v. (motion) | 23. slip | move easily.; "slip into something comfortable" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| v. (motion) | 24. slip | cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion.; "he slipped the bolt into place" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ slip | move smoothly and easily.; "the bolt slipped into place"; "water slipped from the polished marble" |
| v. (cognition) | 25. slip, slip one's mind | pass out of one's memory. |
| ~ blank out, draw a blank, forget, block | be unable to remember.; "I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!" |
| v. (change) | 26. dislocate, luxate, slip, splay | move out of position.; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
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