Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SLIME

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Definitions of SLIME

1. 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.
2. Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
3. To carve (fish), removing the offal.
4. Synonym of flubber
5. (informal, derogatory) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
6. (fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
7. (figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
8. (obsolete) Jew’s slime (bitumen).
9. (African American Vernacular English, MTE, slang) A friend; a homie.
10. (transitive) To coat with slime.
11. (transitive, figuratively) To besmirch or disparage.
12. (intransitive, often figurative) To move like slime, like slimy things or like a slimy person.

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Examples of Using SLIME in a Sentence

• Most are microscopic; those in the Myxogastria form larger plasmodial slime molds visible to the naked eye.
• It is cognate with the Wear in England and Vistula (Polish Wisła, German Weichsel) in Poland, all of which are derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weys- "to flow", which also gives rise to Old English/Old Frisian wāse "mud, ooze", Old Norse veisa "slime, stagnant pool", Dutch waas "haze; soggy land" (see Waasland), Old Saxon waso "wet ground, mire", Old High German wasal "rain" and French vase "mud, sludge".
• Storks dwell in many regions and tend to live in drier habitats than the closely related herons, spoonbills and ibises; they also lack the powder down that those groups use to clean off fish slime.
• Jura, or the Great Forest of Jura, the fictional setting for the light novel, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.
• It runs between steep and narrow banks of sandstone, and deposits but little of its fertilizing slime upon the dreary and barren shores.
• In addition to his studies in slime moulds, Minakata was intensely interested in folklore, religion and natural history.
• The myxobacteria ("slime bacteria") are a group of bacteria that predominantly live in the soil and feed on insoluble organic substances.
• The dictyostelids (Dictyostelia/Dictyostelea, ICZN, Dictyosteliomycetes, ICBN) or cellular slime molds are a group of slime molds or social amoebae.
• The mycetozoan groups all fit into the unikont supergroup Amoebozoa, whereas most other slime molds fit into various bikont groups (fonticulids are opisthokonts).
• The genus Dictyostelium is in the order Dictyosteliida, the so-called cellular slime molds or social amoebae.
• Myxozoa (etymology: Greek: μύξα myxa "slime" or "mucus" + thematic vowel o + ζῷον zoon "animal") is a subphylum of aquatic cnidarian animals – all obligate parasites.
• They form a division of kingdom Plantae that include lichens and algae and occasionally bryophytes, bacteria and slime moulds.
• In it, Lovecraft describes them as massive amoeba-like creatures made out of iridescent black slime, with multiple eyes "floating" on the surface.
• Oozes are relatively common antagonists in fantasy fiction; in addition to the oozes of Dungeons & Dragons, examples include the monster from the film The Blob (1958), slime in Dragon Quest, and flan in Final Fantasy.
• This includes blue-green algae (Cyanobacteria); fungi, including chytrids, oomycetes, and slime moulds; photosynthetic protists and taxonomically related non-photosynthetic groups.
• The house was built in 1523 and was constructed with corals, snail slime, oyster, nopal, volcanic stone, brick and stucco; but since a hurricane hit the area in the 19th century is completely covered with roots and vines.
• Watabe wanted to make sure that Rocket Slime used both screens for gameplay, unlike most other DS titles that just used it for menus, believing that the duel screens was the consoles "focus".
• Many challenges have involved filling a container past a line with one of a variety of substances including water, uncooked rice, green slime, whipped cream, and milk.
• Effective catch and release fishing techniques avoid excessive fish fighting and handling times by using sufficiently strong tackle and barbless hooks, avoid damage to fish skin, scale and slime layers from nets, dry hands and dry, hot or rough surfaces (that leave fish vulnerable to oomycete skin infections), and avoid damage to jaw ligaments and vertebrae by suspending fish from jaws or gills for weighing or handling.
• These enzymes cause milk to spoil, by causing bitterness, casein breakdown, and ropiness due to production of slime and coagulation of proteins.

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