Word Meanings - SLIPPAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping.

Related words: (words related to SLIPPAGE)

• SLIPPY
  Slippery.
• SLIPPERILY
  In a slippery manner.
• SLIPPER
  A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib. Slipper animalcule , a ciliated infusorian of the genus Paramecium. -- Slipper flower. Slipperwort. -- Slipper
• SLIPPINESS
  Slipperiness. "The slippiness of the way." Sir W. Scott.
• SLIPPERY
  1. Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery. 2. Not affording firm ground for confidence;
• SLIPPAGE
  The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping.
• SLIPPERED
  Wearing slippers. Shak.
• SLIPPERWORT
  See CALCEOLARIA
• SLIPPERNESS
  Slipperiness.
• SLIPPERINESS
  The quality of being slippery.
• AMOUNT
  L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See 1. To go up; to ascend. So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser. 2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come in the aggregate or
• LADY'S SLIPPER
  Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam .
• TANTAMOUNT
  Equivalent in value, signification, or effect. A usage nearly tantamount to constitutional right. Hallam. The certainty that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin. De Quincey.
• CATAMOUNT
  The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx.
• PARAMOUNT
  Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preëminent; as, a paramount duty. "A traitor paramount." Bacon. Lady paramount , the lady making the best score. -- Lord paramount, the king. Syn. Superior;
• COWSLIPPED
  Adorned with cowslips. "Cowslipped lawns." Keats.
• PARAMOUNTLY
  In a paramount manner.