Slump vs Sail - What's the difference?
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(lb) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
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*:“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.
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, title= (lb) To slouch or droop.
(lb) To lump; to throw together messily.
* (1788-1856)
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)
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.
(nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.
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(uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use this power for travel or transport.
A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
(dated) A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft. Plural sail .
The blade of a windmill.
A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
(fishing) A sailfish.
(paleontology) an outward projection of the
Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
* Spenser
To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.
To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
To set sail; to begin a voyage.
To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
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To move briskly.
Slump is a related term of sail.
As nouns the difference between slump and sail
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 sail is salt.As a verb slump
is (lb) to collapse heavily or helplessly.slump
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Verb
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.}}
- These different groupsare exclusively slumped together under that sense.
- The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump .
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* slumplikeAnagrams
* * ----sail
English
(wikipedia sail)Etymology 1
From (etyl) 'to cut'. More at saw.Noun
(en noun)- When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive / And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind;
- Let's go for a sail .
- Twenty sail were in sight.
- We caught three sails today.
- Like an eagle soaring / To weather his broad sails .
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* balloon sail * by sail * drag sail * dragon sail * point of sail * sailback * sailboard * sailboat * sailcloth * sailer * sailfish * sailing * studding sail * set sail * take the wind out of someone's sails * topsail * working sailEtymology 2
(etyl) , cognate to earlier Middle Low German segelen and its descendant Low German sailen.Verb
(en verb)- We sail for Australia tomorrow.
- As is a winged messenger of heaven, / When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, / And sails upon the bosom of the air.
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