If a fighter is knocked down during the fight, determined by whether the boxer touches the canvas floor of the ring with any part of their body other than the feet as a result of the opponent's punch and not a slip, as determined by the referee, the referee begins counting until the fighter returns to his or her feet and can continue.

Also known as a slip clutch or safety clutch, this device allows a rotating shaft to slip when higher than normal resistance is encountered on a machine.

The chain is either turned and worked in rows, or joined to the beginning of the row with a slip stitch and worked in rounds.

Each stitch in slip stitch crochet is formed the same way as a knit or purl stitch which is then bound off.

Many earthquakes are caused by movement on faults that have components of both dip-slip and strike-slip ; this is known as oblique slip.

Coulomb observed that, at failure, a distinct slip plane would form behind a sliding retaining wall and he suggested that the maximum shear stress on the slip plane, for design purposes, was the sum of the soil cohesion,, and friction, where is the normal stress on the slip plane and is the friction angle of the soil.

However, as cache reviewers typically cannot see exactly where and how every particular cache is hidden, problematic hides can slip through.

David Hume famously argued in A Treatise of Human Nature that people invariably slip between describing that the world is a certain way to saying therefore we ought to conclude on a particular course of action.

Adding a " slip stitch " ( where a loop is passed from one needle to the other ) allows for a wide range of textures, including heel and linen stitches, and a number of more complicated patterns.

Sometimes, the use of a stopper knot or, even better, a backup knot can prevent the working end from passing through the knot ; but if a knot is observed to slip, it is generally preferable to use a more secure knot.

With the onset of Ragnarök, Loki is foretold to slip free from his bonds and to fight against the gods among the forces of the jötnar, at which time he will encounter the god Heimdallr and the two will slay each other.

Screw dislocations may slip in the direction of any lattice plane containing the dislocation, while the principal driving force for " dislocation climb " is the movement or diffusion of vacancies through a crystal lattice.

A combination of these stories is given by the French traveler Pouqueville, who writes that when the cord was thrown over his neck, Osman ' had the presence of mind to slip it with his hand, and knock down the principal executioner ; on which his grand vizier seized him by the most sensible part of his body, when Osman fainted with pain, and was strangled.

He takes the slip to the shopkeeper, who opens the drawer marked ' apples ', then he looks up the word ' red ' in a table and finds a colour sample opposite it ; then he says the series of cardinal numbers — I assume that he knows them by heart — up to the word ' five ' and for each number he takes an apple of the same colour as the sample out of the drawer .— It is in this and similar ways that one operates with words —" But how does he know where and how he is to look up the word ' red ' and what he is to do with the word ' five '?

Movement along faults can result in folding, either because the faults are not planar, or because the rock layers are dragged along, forming drag folds, as slip occurs are along the fault.

When Richard Pryor came back from Africa, and decided to stop using the word onstage, he would sometimes start to slip up, because he was so used to speaking that way.

This is dangerous because the granny knot can slip when heavily loaded.

The maxillae do not slip back because the toothed blades grip the skin.

This method should be avoided because while sleeves can work well on repairs in the middle of the fence where there is not enough wire for hand knotting, they tend to slip when under tension.

The dance is performed high on the toes, and is often considered the " ballet of Irish dance " because of its graceful movements that seem to slip the performers across the floor.

He would also slip in spoof commercials and sponsor's announcements for " Dobbiroids ", the wonder horse rejuvenator, or " Dobbimist " horse deodorant ( a cure for UFO: under-fetlock odour ), or " Dobbitex " horse cummerbunds-he would claim that he'd been " got at ": paid money to plug the product, because he claimed to be only paid a pittance as a senior BBC announcer, " I want things, I need things, things the other radio announcers have got!

Paquette's name was misread because of a slip of a pen, and read as Poynette.

Stabs to the face are not allowed because the thin rattan core may penetrate the padding and slip through the grills of the headgear and go into the player's eye.

It is called limited slip because it does just that ; it limits the amount that one wheel can " slip " ( spin ).

Brinke and others established that participants appeared surprised because they could only raise their eyebrows when trying to appear sad, which then caused the participants to feel embarrassed, feel genuine happiness, and let a smile slip.

These earthquakes often occur at the location of ancient failed rifts, because such old structures may present a weakness in the crust where it can easily slip to accommodate regional tectonic strain.

The huge stone city of Minauros the Sinking is located here, so called because the weight of the city causes it to continually slip beneath the slimy waters ; only the endless efforts of thousands of slaves prevents it from doing so.

During a Hogwarts visit to Hogsmeade, a wizard village which Harry is unable to visit because he has no permission slip, Harry has tea with Professor Lupin.

During the next Hogsmeade visit, from which Harry is forbidden because he didn't get his permission slip signed, Fred and George Weasley give Harry the Marauder's Map, written by the mysterious quartet of Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs.

It can be differentiated from other wares because it was made with a harder paste and a glossier slip.

Moreover there were adhesion stability problems where the front engine tended to slip and then stall uncontrollably because of an imbalance of tractive effort and axle load, accentuated by the drawbar reaction, and inability of the intermediate steam receiver to accommodate the sudden pressure change.

At first the token was a slip of paper called a " flimsy " because of its thickness.

She is known by the nickname Honey Girl, in deference to her brother, who calls himself Honey Boy because of a reputation for being able to slip punches from opponents.

Dislocation propagation is impeded because of the stress field of the grain boundary defect region and the lack of slip planes and slip directions and overall alignment across the boundaries.

Reducing grain size is therefore a common way to improve strength, often without any sacrifice in toughness because the smaller grains create more obstacles per unit area of slip plane.

It did not take me long to slip the bolt securely and return to the rear and its couch.

Russia preparing to let slip the " Dogs of War ," its imminent engagement in the growing Balkan Russo-Turkish War ( 1877 – 1878 ) | conflict between Slavic states and Turkey, while policeman John Bull ( United Kingdom | Britain ) warns Russia to take care.

After the Archivist receives the Act, he or she provides for its publication as a slip law and in the United States Statutes at Large.

Its course and the Heathrow Airport slip road and its junction took much of Sipson Farm's remaining land.

It is played by holding the free end of the string ( usually by inserting one finger in a slip knot ) allowing gravity or the force of a throw to spin the yo-yo and unwind the string ( similar to how a pullstring works ), then allowing the yo-yo to wind itself back to one's hand, exploiting its spin ( and the associated rotational energy ).

Others had had similar ideas, but Bouch put them into effect, and did so with an attention to detail ( such as design of the ferry slip ) which led a subsequent President of the Institution of Civil Engineers to settle any dispute over priority of invention with the observation that “ there was little merit in a simple conception of this kind, compared with a work practically carried out in all its details, and brought to perfection ”

In fact, for lack of any serious competition in the 1920s, the LSO allowed its standards of playing to slip.

In regards to lyrics he says " a lyric allows its speaker to slip in and out of pastoral guise and reveal directly the sophistication which prompted him to assume it in the first place ″.

A fibrous slip usually passes from the upper border of the tendon of the Latissimus dorsi, near its insertion, to the long head of the triceps brachii.

As its beleaguered riparian fortresses at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Port Hudson were about to slip from its grasp, the Confederacy was struggling desperately to maintain some hold on the river.

Finally at a slip of around 20 % the motor reaches its maximum torque, called the " breakdown torque ".

Australia's international tourism campaigns have focused on Australia's laid-back style, such as an 1980s advertising campaign featuring actor Paul Hogan telling American tourists " I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you ", or its cheeky side, as in its controversial 2006 campaign in the United Kingdom using the Australian colloquialism slogan " So where the bloody hell are you?

Dun Mountain is separated from its sister massif, Red Mountain, at the southern end of South Island, New Zealand, by the Alpine Fault, an approximately 600 km long right lateral strike slip fault similar to the San Andreas fault in California, USA.

One of these ferries, the Westfield, came to grief when its boiler exploded while sitting in its slip at South Ferry at about 1: 30 in the afternoon of July 30, 1871 The New York Times described the disaster.

* On April 12, 1995, the Andrew J. Barberi rammed its slip at St. George due to a mechanical malfunction.

A high ratio of piston strokes to wheel revolutions allowed them to run at partial slip, where a conventional rod engine would spin its drive wheels and burn rails, losing all traction.

# The referee gives each a slip of paper with the same word ( found in this dictionary ) written on each slip — word chosen so that it has synonyms in its definition, but ( preferably ) the definition of any synonym does not ( in that dictionary ) list a synonym which is the originally assigned word ;

The amendment seems well on its way to passing, despite the entreaties of the Chief Whip, but Alan's plan is mooted when Piers accidentally lets slip to Georgina the real reason for Alan's interest in the Marshes.