"slipstick" meaning in All languages combined

See slipstick on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: slipsticks [plural]
Etymology: slip + stick Etymology templates: {{compound|en|slip|stick}} slip + stick Head templates: {{en-noun}} slipstick (plural slipsticks)
  1. (informal) A slide rule. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-slipstick-en-noun-pfv3Tr~Q Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for slipstick meaning in All languages combined (0.7kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "slip",
        "3": "stick"
      },
      "expansion": "slip + stick",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "slip + stick",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "slipsticks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "slipstick (plural slipsticks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A slide rule."
      ],
      "id": "en-slipstick-en-noun-pfv3Tr~Q",
      "links": [
        [
          "slide rule",
          "slide rule"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A slide rule."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "slipstick"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "slip",
        "3": "stick"
      },
      "expansion": "slip + stick",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "slip + stick",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "slipsticks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "slipstick (plural slipsticks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A slide rule."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "slide rule",
          "slide rule"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A slide rule."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "slipstick"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.