Slog vs Mite - What's the difference?
slog | mite |
(chiefly, British, and, Canada) A long, tedious walk, or session of work.
(cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
To walk slowly, encountering resistance.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
(by extension) To work slowly and deliberately (overcoming significant boredom).
To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.
A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See Acarina.
A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.
*1803 , William Blake,
*:One mite wrung from the lab'rer's hands
*:Shall buy and sell the miser's lands;
A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.
A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle. Sometimes used adverbially.
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, title= * 1959 , Frances Cavanah, Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance , Project Gutenberg, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17315/17315-8.txt]:
As nouns the difference between slog and mite
is that slog is a long, tedious walk, or session of work while mite is a minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See Acarina.As a verb slog
is to walk slowly, encountering resistance.slog
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(slogg)- A miraculous desert rain. We slog , dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”
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* ----mite
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(wikipedia mite)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=“Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.}}
- "Those trousers are a mite too big, but you'll soon grow into them."
