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Mufti vs Slim - What's the difference?

mufti | slim |

As nouns the difference between mufti and slim

is that mufti is mufti (islamic scholar) while slim is slime, mucus.

mufti

English

Noun

  • A Sunni Muslim scholar and interpreter of shari’a law, who can deliver a fatwa
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Mujtahidd's online claims have prompted an aggressive backlash against social media from the Saudi religious establishment. The grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul-Aziz al-Sheikh, said in January that Twitter was a platform for "promoting lies" and a "dangerous practice" that should be avoided by Muslims. Commentators have described the phenomenon as symbolic of the growing political debate about use of Twitter in Saudi Arabia.}}
  • (uncountable, AU, British, New Zealand) Civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform
  • * 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91
    • He had a suit of summer mufti , and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.
  • * 2002 . Wilma, Dave. "First nuclear submarine visits Seattle and crew secretly buys Bar's Leak on June 3, 1958." ''HistoryLink.org: Essay 3739 , 3 April 2002.
    • The sailors in mufti returned with 140 quarts of Bar's Leak, half of which was poured into the condenser.

    Synonyms

    * (dress) civvies

    slim

    English

    Adjective

    (slimmer)
  • Slender, thin.
  • # (of a person or a person's build) Slender in an attractive way.
  • Movie stars are usually slim , attractive, and young.
  • # (by extension, of clothing) Designed to make the wearer appear slim.
  • # (of an object) Long and narrow.
  • # (of a workforce) Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.
  • (of something abstract like a chance or margin) Very small, tiny.
    • I'm afraid your chances are quite slim .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Man City 4 - 3 Wolves , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Wolves' debatable third in the last 10 minutes, with the ball only crossing the line by the slimmest of margins if at all, ensured a cracking finale, although City would have been left aggrieved had they let the win slip. }}
  • (South Africa) Sly, crafty.

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
    • I only smoke slims .
  • (East Africa) AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
  • * {{quote-book, 2003, Charled F. Gilks, editors=David A. Warrell et al., chapter=HIV in the Developing World, Oxford Textbook of Medicine, edition=4th ed., volume=Volume 1 citation
    • , passage=As in the West, only about 50 per cent of patients with slim fully investigated will have a putative pathogen identified.}}
  • (slang, uncountable) Cocaine.

    • Alternative forms

    * (AIDS) Slim

    Verb

  • To lose weight in order to achieve slimness

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