Slime vs Slam - What's the difference?
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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.
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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.
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(figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
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(obsolete) = ((l))
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To coat with slime.
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(ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
(ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down'', ''against'' or into.)
To strike forcefully with some implement.
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(colloquial) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
(basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
(bridge) To make a slam bid.
(card games) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
to change providers (e.g. of domain registration or telephone carrier) for a customer without clear (if any) consent.
to drink off, to drink quickly
to compete in a poetry slam
(countable) A sudden impact or blow.
(countable) The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
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(countable, basketball) A slam dunk.
(countable, colloquial, US) An insult.
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, title= (uncountable) The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
A poetry slam.
(UK, dialect) The refuse of alum works.
(obsolete) A type of card game, also called ruff and honours.
(cards) Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
(countable, bridge) A bid of six (small slam'') or seven (''grand slam ) in a suit or no trump.
(card games) To defeat by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
In obsolete terms the difference between slime and slam
is that slime is = Jew’s slime (bitumen while slam is a type of card game, also called ruff and honours.In transitive terms the difference between slime and slam
is that slime is to coat with slime while slam is to change providers (e.g. of domain registration or telephone carrier) for a customer without clear (if any) consent.slime
English
Noun
- As it [the Nile] ebbs, the seedsman / Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.
- 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.
- th'eternall Lord in fleshly slime / Enwombed was, from wretched Adams line / To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime [...].
- 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 slimeSynonyms
* (any substance of a dirty nature) sludgeVerb
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Anagrams
* * *slam
English
Etymology 1
Apparently from a Scandinavian source; compare Norwegian slamre, Swedish slemma.Verb
(slamm)- Don't slam the door!
- Don't slam that trunk down on the pavement!
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- Don't ever slam me in front of the boss like that again!
- Union leaders slammed the new proposals.
- Critics slammed the new film, calling it violent and meaningless.
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Synonyms
* (drink quickly) See alsoDerived terms
* slam the door on * slam on the brakesNoun
- The slam and the scowl were lost upon Sam.
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