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slips

n. 1 (plural of slip English) 2 (context cricket English) the area of the field covered by fielders in the slip positions; the slip fielders collectively vb. (en-third-person singular of: slip)

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Slips

Slips or SLIPS may refer to:

  • Slips (oil drilling)
  • SLIPS ( Slippery Liquid Infused Porous Surfaces)
  • SLIPS (company)
  • SLIPS ( Sri Lanka Interbank Payment System)
  • Slip (cricket), often used in the plural form
  • The Slips, a UK electronic music duo

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Slip (disambiguation)

Slips (oil drilling)

Slips is a device used to grip and hold the upper part of a drill string to the drill floor on an oil rig. The slips are constructed as a collection of metal wedges, hinged together to form a circular shape around the drill pipe. On the inside surface, the slips normally has replaceable steel teeth that grips the pipe. The outsides of the slips are tapered and meets a similar taper on the drill floor. Usually the pipe goes through a Rotary table - machinery that makes the pipe rotate.

After the slips is placed around the drill pipe, it is lowered so that the teeth on the inside grip the pipe and the slips are pulled down. The wedges then holds the drill pipe by the compressive force.

After work is completed, the drill string is raised, thereby unlocking the gripping action. The slips are then lifted away.

Usage examples of "slips".

For the next two or three minutes the view swirled about and was often obscured as the woman, complaining bitterly at first, then sulking silently, was put into her various slips, blouses and gown.

Thursday, 18870811:2024 The queen rode astride the horizontally oriented ornvis, her blue silks no impediment to the anchor despite the copious slips and underfittings.

The queen straightened, regal in her golden circlet and blue silk blouse despite the tattered slips that remained as skirts.

Time slips away from us, and we must act quickly if we are to save the Elven people.

Oskar, in pursuit of the spherical pretext, slips in before his grandmother can see through his ruse and give back the ball.

The chests that had been moved against the door burst open, releasing piles of bound records, which fluttered aloft, scattered, and landed on the tile floor where they came into contact with slips and tags whose acquaintance they were never intended to make.

Now she was set with the task of cutting down her slips and gowns to make a layette and needlework had always tried her patience.

He sees prey, clicks and rattles deep in his throat while he slips the hood from his hunting squid and releases it.

There is a beast, the Lover had told them: a stunning kind of thing, an animal that breaches into Bas-Lag and slips away again from time to time.

It was a pleasant little room, with three windows--north, west, and south--and bookshelves covered with books and scientific publications, and a broad writing-table, and, under the north window, a microscope, glass slips, minute instruments, some cultures, and scattered bottles of reagents.

Here is a man who slips into a house with the deliberate intention of committing murder.

Now a camel, so good on sand that is its native heath, is a worthless brute among stones, over which it slips and flounders.