Case vs Slip - What's the Difference?

Case

Slip

Definitions

Definition as Noun
  • the actual state of things
  • a portable container for carrying several objects
  • a person requiring professional services
  • a problem requiring investigation
  • a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument
  • a specific state of mind that is temporary
  • the quantity contained in a case
  • the enclosing frame around a door or window opening
  • a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
  • (printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has his type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers
  • a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home
  • a special set of circumstances
  • a specific size and style of type within a type family
  • nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
  • an occurrence of something
  • a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
  • bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
  • an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part
  • the housing or outer covering of something
  • a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
Definition as Noun
  • potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
  • a young and slender person
  • bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
  • a woman's sleeveless undergarment
  • a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
  • the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
  • a socially awkward or tactless act
  • a place where a craft can be made fast
  • a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
  • an unexpected slide
  • a slippery smoothness
  • a small sheet of paper
  • a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
  • artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
  • an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
Definition as Verb
  • look over, usually with the intention to rob
  • enclose in, or as if in, a case
Definition as Verb
  • insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
  • move smoothly and easily
  • move easily
  • cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
  • move out of position
  • get worse
  • to make a mistake or be incorrect
  • move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
  • pass out of one's memory
  • pass on stealthily
  • move stealthily

Examples

  • "that was not the case"
  • "the musicians left their instrument cases backstage"
  • "a typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor"
  • "Perry Mason solved the case of the missing heir"
  • "he stated his case clearly"
  • "a case of the jitters"
  • "the casings had rotted away and had to be replaced"
  • "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"
  • "for English, a compositor will ordinarily have two such cases, the upper case containing the capitals and the lower case containing the small letters"
  • "in that event, the first possibility is excluded"; "it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled"
  • "it was a case of bad judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always the famous example of the Smiths"
  • "the family brought suit against the landlord"
  • "the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase"
  • "the clock has a walnut case"
  • "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"
  • "They men cased the housed"
  • "my feet were encased in mud"
  • "he's a mere slip of a lad"
  • "the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase"
  • "he could feel the slickness of the tiller"
  • "a receipt slip"; "a withdrawal slip"
  • "he blamed his slip on the ice"; "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills"
  • "He slipped some money into the waiter's hand"
  • "the bolt slipped into place"; "water slipped from the polished marble"
  • "slip into something comfortable"
  • "he slipped the bolt into place"
  • "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically"
  • "My grades are slipping"
  • "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk"
  • "He slipped me the key when nobody was looking"
  • "The ship slipped away in the darkness"

Parts of Speech

Noun, Verb
Noun, Verb

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