Slim vs Slime - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between slim and slime

is that slim is slime, mucus while 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.

As a verb slime is

to coat with slime.

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.

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(slang, uncountable) Cocaine.

Alternative forms

* (AIDS) Slim

Verb

To lose weight in order to achieve slimness

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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.

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, 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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