Slack vs Casual - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Small coal; coal dust.
(countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell.
(uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
(countable) A tidal marsh or shallow, that periodically fills and drains.
Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended.
Weak; not holding fast.
Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
* Bible, 2 Peter iii. 9
Not violent, rapid, or pressing.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=3 (slang, West Indies) vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music
Slackly.
To slacken.
* Robert South
(obsolete) To mitigate; to reduce the strength of.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.7:
to procrastinate; to be lazy
to refuse to exert effort
To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
Happening by chance.
* (Washington Irving)
Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
* (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Employed irregularly.
* , chapter=17
, title= Careless.
* 2007 , Nick Holland, The Girl on the Bus (page 117)
Happening or coming to pass without design.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=8 Informal, relaxed.
Designed for informal or everyday use.
(British, NZ) A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.
A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
(UK) A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see .
One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.
A player of casual games.
Slack is a related term of casual.
As a verb slack
is .As an adjective casual is
happening by chance.As a noun casual is
(british|nz) a worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.slack
English
Noun
- (Raymond)
- The slack of a rope or of a sail.
Synonyms
* culm * (tidal marsh) sloughDerived terms
* (coal dust) nutty slackAdjective
(er)- a slack rope
- a slack hand
- slack in duty or service
- The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness.
- Business is slack .
citation, passage=“They know our boats will stand up to their work,” said Willison, “and that counts for a good deal. A low estimate from us doesn't mean scamped work, but just for that we want to keep the yard busy over a slack time.”}}
Synonyms
* slow, moderate, easyDerived terms
* slack-jawedAdverb
(-)- slack dried hops
Verb
(en verb)- In this business of growing rich, poor men should slack their pace.
- Ne did she let dull sleepe once to relent, / Nor wearinesse to slack her hast, but fled / Ever alike [...].
- Lime slacks .
Derived terms
* skive offAnagrams
* *casual
English
Alternative forms
* casuall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- casual breaks, in the general system
- a constant habit, rather than a casual gesture
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}
- I removed my jacket and threw it casually over the back of the settee.
citation, passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}