Slug vs Method - What's the difference?
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Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell
(obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
A bullet (projectile).
A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
(journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
(physics, rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
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A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
(television editing) A black screen.
(metal typesetting) A piece of type metal imprinted by a Linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error.
(regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
(web design) The last part of a (clean URL), the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
(obsolete) A hindrance; an obstruction.
A ship that sails slowly.
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To drink quickly; to gulp.
To down a shot.
To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
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(of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
(obsolete) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
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To load with a slug or slugs.
To make sluggish.
A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process):
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(programming, object-oriented) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.
(slang) Marijuana.
As nouns the difference between slug and method
is that slug is any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell while method is a process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process):.As a verb slug
is to drink quickly; to gulp.slug
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare) Why, lamb! Why, lady! Fie, you slug-a-bed. Romeo and Juliet
- (Francis Bacon)
- His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.
- (Halliwell)
Synonyms
* (a quantity of a drink) See alsoDerived terms
* black slug * sea slug * slug lineSee also
* (gastropod) snailVerb
(slugg)- He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.
- The fighter slugged his opponent into unconsciousness.
- To slug in sloth and sensual delight.
- to slug a gun
- (Milton)
Derived terms
* slug it outAnagrams
* English transitive verbs ----method
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Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method , and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close