Slack vs Sagging - What's the difference?
slack | sagging |
(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.
The act of something that sags.
* 1969 , Sugar Technologists' Association of India, Proceedings
A manner of wearing pants or shorts below the waist, revealing some or all of the underwear.
Sagging is a antonym of slack.
As nouns the difference between slack and sagging
is that slack is small coal; coal dust while sagging is the act of something that sags.As verbs the difference between slack and sagging
is that slack is to slacken while sagging is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective slack
is lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended.As an adverb slack
is slackly.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 .
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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
* *sagging
English
Noun
- It was noticed that there had been saggings and bulgings in the trays.