Difference between dress and slip
Definitions
verb
- put a finish on
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- kill and prepare for market or consumption
- provide with clothes or put clothes on
- put on clothes
noun
- clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
- clothing in general
- a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice
adjective
- (of an occasion) requiring formal clothes
- suitable for formal occasions
Examples
The brightly colored outfits may be made of either cotton or such dressy fabrics as velvet, satin, and lamé.
I blame it all on becca who called me in the middle of the night to talk to me all about how the two best friends names are Kate and Becca and that the main character lives in apartment 601 as my address and other kooky details that i have been trying to forget nightly since i saw that movie, And then every sound is that kid coming out of the television and im only writing about it now in order to expunge as i fear she will grab hold of my foot from under the desk and eat me or turn me into something decomposing or whatever it is she does.
Spinach, endive and romaine lettuce are great in salads; just dress with a little olive oil and red wine vinegar.
Definitions
noun
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- 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 slippery smoothness
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
verb
- move smoothly and easily
- pass on stealthily
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- move easily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
Examples
In this edition, such mistakes are corrected, and the original errata slips are also published.
'When I was a little girl I used to slip away from my nurse, climb to the top of my uncle's keep and sit in the crenel spaces.
Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really.
