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Slump vs Coast - What's the difference?

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Slump is a related term of coast.


As verbs the difference between slump and coast

is that slump is (lb) to collapse heavily or helplessly while coast is to glide along without adding energy.

As nouns the difference between slump and coast

is that slump is a heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period while coast is (obsolete) the side or edge of something.

slump

English

Verb

  • (lb) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
  • *
  • *:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are'' pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
  • (lb) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal , passage=The Gunners captain demonstrated his importance to the team by taking his tally to an outstanding 28 goals in 27 Premier League games as Chelsea slumped again after their shock defeat at QPR last week.}}
  • (lb) To slouch or droop.
  • (lb) To lump; to throw together messily.
  • * (1788-1856)
    • These different groupsare exclusively slumped together under that sense.
  • To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
  • * (Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)
    • The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
  • (Scotland, UK, dialect) A boggy place.
  • (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
  • (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.

    • Derived terms

    * slumplike

    Anagrams

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    coast

    English

    (wikipedia coast)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) The side or edge of something.
    • (Sir Isaac Newton)
  • The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake.
    • The rocky coast of Maine has few beaches.
  • (obsolete) A region of land; a district or country.
  • * 1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 2:
    • Then Herod perceavynge that he was moocked off the wyse men, was excedynge wroth, and sent forth and slue all the chyldren that were in bethleem, and in all the costes thereof […].
  • *, II.ii.3:
    • P. Crescentius, in his lib.'' 1 ''de agric. cap. 5, is very copious in this subject, how a house should be wholesomely sited, in a good coast , good air, wind, etc.
  • (obsolete) A region of the air or heavens.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
    • the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell […].

    Hypernyms

    * shore, shoreline

    Hyponyms

    * oceanfront, seashore

    Derived terms

    * coast fox * coast guard, coastguard * coast rat * coast-to-coast * coastal * coaster * coastland * coastline * coastward * coastwatcher * coastwise

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To glide along without adding energy.
    • When I ran out of gas, fortunately I managed to coast into a nearby gas station.
  • (nautical) To sail along a coast.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • The ancients coasted only in their navigation.
  • Applied to human behavior, to make a minimal effort, to continue to do something in a routine way. This implies lack of initiative and effort.
  • * November 2 2014 , Daniel Taylor, " Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
    • Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties.
  • (obsolete) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Anon she hears them chant it lustily, / And all in haste she coasteth to the cry.
    (Hakluyt)
  • (obsolete) To sail by or near; to follow the coastline of.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • Nearchus, not knowing the compass, was fain to coast that shore.
  • (obsolete) To conduct along a coast or river bank.
  • * Hakluyt
    • The Indians coasted me along the river.
  • (US, dialect) To slide downhill; to slide on a sled upon snow or ice.

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