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Chocolate vs Slime - What's the difference?

chocolate | slime |

As verbs the difference between chocolate and slime

is that chocolate is while slime is to coat with slime.

As an adjective chocolate

is chocolate (attributive).

As a noun slime is

soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.

chocolate

Noun

  • (uncountable) A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans
  • Chocolate is a very popular treat.
  • (uncountable) A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk
  • (countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate
  • He bought her some chocolates as a gift.
  • (uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate
  • As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate .

    Derived terms

    * bar of chocolate * choc * choccy * chocoholic * chocolate-box * chocolate chip * chocolate leather * chocolate phosphate * chocolate plastic * chocolate tree * chocolatey, chocolaty * compound chocolate * dark chocolate * hot chocolate * milk chocolate * modeling chocolate, modelling chocolate * plain chocolate * white chocolate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made of or containing chocolate.
  • Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.
  • See also

    * black bottom pie * Black Forest gateau * brownie * cacao * carob * cocoa bean * cocoa butter * * devil's food cake * ganache * lamington * marquise * mocha * mochaccino * mole * Nanaimo bar * praline * sacher torte * tollhouse cookie * truffle *

    References

    * * 2000 , Karen Dakin, Søren Wichmann, ‘Cacao and Chocolate: An Uto-Aztec perspective’, Ancient Mesoamerica , vol. 11, pages 55–75. * 1983 , Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (University of Texas Press), page 54.

    slime

    English

    Noun

  • Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
  • * Shakespeare
  • As it [the Nile] ebbs, the seedsman / Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.
  • Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
  • A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
  • * 2005 , G. E. Nordell, Backlot Requiem: A Rick Walker Mystery
  • If this guy knows who killed Robert, the right thing to do is to tell the police. If he doesn't know, really, then he's an opportunistic slime . It's still blackmail.
  • (figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
  • * , II.x:
  • th'eternall Lord in fleshly slime / Enwombed was, from wretched Adams line / To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime [...].
  • (obsolete) = ((l))
  • *
  • And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

    Derived terms

    * slime mold * pink slime

    Synonyms

    * (any substance of a dirty nature) sludge

    Verb

    (slim)
  • To coat with slime.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
  • (figuratively) To besmirch or disparage.
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