Avalanche vs Sluff - What's the difference?
avalanche | sluff |
A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx of anything.
Anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity (like a barrage, blitz, etc).
To descend like an avalanche.
To come down upon; to overwhelm.
(skin shed by a snake or other reptile).
(dead skin on a sore or ulcer).
An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.
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* {{quote-web, date=2002-03-02, author=Sid Perkins, title=Avalanche! Scientists are digging out the secrets of lethal flows of snow., site=The Free Library, url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Avalanche!+Scientists+are+digging+out+the+secrets+of+lethal+flows+of+...-a084054171,
, passage=At least for small sluffs like the ones Brown and his colleagues have triggered, the avalanche slides like a block of material instead of flowing like a fluid.}}
(to shed or to slide off).
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ignore, shrug (off)
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(discard).
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 16, author=Phillip Alder, title=At a Florida Game, an Unusual Double Squeeze, work=New York Times
, passage=If either played another club, declarer would ruff on the board and sluff his diamond queen.}}
to avoid working
As nouns the difference between avalanche and sluff
is that avalanche is a large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice while sluff is an alternative spelling of lang=en skin shed by a snake or other reptile.As verbs the difference between avalanche and sluff
is that avalanche is to descend like an avalanche while sluff is an alternative spelling of lang=en to shed or to slide off.As an acronym SLUFF is
short Little Ugly Fat Fellow (or Fucker); US Airforce nickname for the A-7 bomber.avalanche
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* snowslide, snowslipVerb
(avalanch)- The shelf broke and the boxes avalanched the workers.
External links
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English
Alternative forms
* sloughNoun
(en noun)- That is the sluff of a rattler; we must be careful.
- This is the sluff that came off of his skin after the burn.
Verb
(en verb)citation
- He's sluffing off somewhere.