slice | (noun) a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: fade, slicing |
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(noun) a spatula for spreading paint or ink | - |
(noun) a serving that has been cut from a larger portion | Synonyms: piece |
(noun) a thin flat piece cut off of some object | - |
(noun) a share of something | Synonyms: piece |
(noun) a wound made by cutting | Synonyms: cut, gash, slash |
(verb) hit a ball so that it causes a backspin | - |
(verb) cut into slices | Synonyms: slice up |
(verb) make a clean cut through | Synonyms: slit |
(verb) hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction | - |
sliced | (adjective) (used of meat) cut into pieces for serving | - |
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(adjective) prepared by cutting | Synonyms: chopped, shredded |
slicer | (noun) knife especially designed for slicing particular foods, as cheese | - |
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(noun) a machine for cutting; usually with a revolving blade | - |
(noun) a golfer whose shots typically curve right (for right-handed golfers) | - |
slicing | (noun) the act of cutting into slices | - |
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(noun) a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: fade, slice |
slick | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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(adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, silky, sleek |
(adjective) having only superficial plausibility | Synonyms: glib, pat |
(adjective) made slick by e.g. ice or grease | - |
(adjective) superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject | Synonyms: facile, neat |
(noun) a trowel used to make a surface slick | - |
(noun) a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water | - |
(noun) a slippery smoothness | Synonyms: slickness, slip, slipperiness |
(noun) a magazine printed on good quality paper | Synonyms: glossy, slick magazine |
(verb) give a smooth and glossy appearance | Synonyms: sleek down, slick down |
(verb) make slick or smooth | Synonyms: sleek |
slicked | (adjective) (of hair) made smooth by applying a sticky or glossy substance | Synonyms: plastered |
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slicker | (noun) a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof | Synonyms: oilskin |
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(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, trickster |
(noun) a person with good manners and stylish clothing | - |
slickly | (adverb) with superficial plausibility | Synonyms: glibly |
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slickness | (noun) a slippery smoothness | Synonyms: slick, slip, slipperiness |
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(noun) a kind of fluent easy superficiality | Synonyms: glibness |
(noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, trickery |
slide | (noun) the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it | Synonyms: coast, glide |
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(noun) sloping channel through which things can descend | Synonyms: chute, slideway, sloping trough |
(noun) a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector | Synonyms: lantern slide |
(noun) a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study | Synonyms: microscope slide |
(noun) plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide | Synonyms: playground slide, sliding board |
(noun) (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale | Synonyms: swoop |
(noun) (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc. | - |
(verb) to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly | Synonyms: slither |
(verb) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: skid, slew, slip, slue |
(verb) move smoothly along a surface | - |
slider | (noun) a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown | - |
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(noun) freshwater turtle of United States and South America; frequently raised commercially; some young sold as pets | Synonyms: Pseudemys scripta, yellow-bellied terrapin |
(noun) someone who races the luge | Synonyms: luger |
(noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: skidder, slipper |
slideway | (noun) sloping channel through which things can descend | Synonyms: chute, slide, sloping trough |
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sliding | (adjective) being a smooth continuous motion | - |
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slight | (adjective) (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some | Synonyms: little |
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(adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, tenuous, thin |
(adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slender, slim, svelte |
(noun) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) | Synonyms: rebuff |
(verb) pay no attention to, disrespect | Synonyms: cold-shoulder |
slighting | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory |
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slightingly | (adverb) in a disparaging manner | Synonyms: disparagingly |
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slightly | (adverb) to a small degree or extent | Synonyms: more or less, somewhat |
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(adverb) in a slim or slender manner | Synonyms: slenderly, slimly |
slightness | (noun) slenderness | Synonyms: delicacy |
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(noun) the property of an attractively thin person | Synonyms: slenderness, slimness |
(noun) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | Synonyms: pettiness, puniness, triviality |
slim | (adjective) small in quantity | Synonyms: slender |
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(adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slender, slight, svelte |
(verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, reduce, slenderize, slim down, thin |
slime | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, sludge |
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(verb) cover or stain with slime | - |
slimed | (adjective) covered with or resembling slime | Synonyms: slimy |
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sliminess | (noun) a property resembling or being covered with slime | - |
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(noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: loathsomeness, lousiness, repulsiveness, vileness, wickedness |
slimly | (adverb) in a slim or slender manner | Synonyms: slenderly, slightly |
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slimness | (noun) the property of an attractively thin person | Synonyms: slenderness, slightness |
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(noun) a small margin | Synonyms: narrow margin, narrowness |
slimy | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
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(adjective) covered with or resembling slime | Synonyms: slimed |
sling | (noun) bandage to support an injured forearm; consisting of a wide triangular piece of cloth hanging from around the neck | Synonyms: scarf bandage, triangular bandage |
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(noun) a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones | Synonyms: catapult, slingshot |
(noun) a simple weapon consisting of a looped strap in which a projectile is whirled and then released | - |
(noun) a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel | Synonyms: slingback |
(noun) a highball with liquor and water with sugar and lemon or lime juice | - |
(verb) hurl as if with a sling | Synonyms: catapult |
(verb) hold or carry in a sling | - |
(verb) move with a sling | - |
(verb) hang loosely or freely; let swing | - |
slingback | (noun) a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel | Synonyms: sling |
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slinger | (noun) a person who uses a sling to throw something | - |
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slinging | (noun) throwing with a wide motion (as if with a sling) | - |
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slingshot | (noun) a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones | Synonyms: catapult, sling |
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slink | (verb) walk stealthily | - |
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slip | (noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air | Synonyms: sideslip |
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(noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, solecism |
(noun) the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) | Synonyms: eluding, elusion |
(noun) an unexpected slide | Synonyms: sideslip, skid |
(noun) a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. | Synonyms: miscue, parapraxis, slip-up |
(noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shift, shimmy, teddy |
(noun) bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow | Synonyms: case, pillow slip, pillowcase |
(noun) artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material | Synonyms: strip |
(noun) a small sheet of paper | Synonyms: slip of paper |
(noun) a slippery smoothness | Synonyms: slick, slickness, slipperiness |
(noun) an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall | Synonyms: trip |
(noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: berth, moorage, mooring |
(noun) a young and slender person | - |
(noun) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting | Synonyms: cutting |
(noun) potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics | - |
(verb) fall to a lower standard | Synonyms: drop away, drop off, fall away |
(verb) move out of position | Synonyms: dislocate, luxate, splay |
(verb) insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly | - |
(verb) to make a mistake or be incorrect | Synonyms: err, mistake |
(verb) pass out of one's memory | Synonyms: slip one's mind |
(verb) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: skid, slew, slide, slue |
(verb) move stealthily | Synonyms: steal |
(verb) move easily | - |
(verb) move smoothly and easily | - |
(verb) cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion | - |
(verb) pass on stealthily | Synonyms: sneak |
slipcover | (noun) a removable fitted cloth covering for upholstered furniture | - |
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slipknot | (noun) a knot at the end of a cord or rope that can slip along the cord or rope around which it is made | - |
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slipover | (noun) a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head | Synonyms: pullover |
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slippage | (noun) failing to hold or slipping out of place | - |
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(noun) a decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping | - |
(noun) decline from a standard level of performance or achievement | - |
slipper | (noun) low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors | Synonyms: carpet slipper |
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(noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: skidder, slider |
slippered | (adjective) shod with slippers | - |
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slipperiness | (noun) a slippery smoothness | Synonyms: slick, slickness, slip |
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(noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal | Synonyms: rascality, shiftiness, trickiness |
slipperwort | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip | Synonyms: calceolaria |
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slippery | (adjective) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide | Synonyms: slippy |
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(adjective) not to be trusted | Synonyms: tricky |
slipping | (adjective) moving as on a slippery surface | Synonyms: slithering |
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slippy | (adjective) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide | Synonyms: slippery |
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slipshod | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: haphazard, slapdash, sloppy |
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slipstick | (noun) analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations; have been replaced by pocket calculators | Synonyms: slide rule |
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slipstream | (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, backwash, race, wash |
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slipway | (noun) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | Synonyms: shipway, ways |
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slit | (noun) a long narrow opening | - |
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(noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: cunt, puss, pussy, snatch, twat |
(noun) a narrow fissure | - |
(noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: dent, incision, prick, scratch |
(verb) cut a slit into | - |
(verb) make a clean cut through | Synonyms: slice |
slither | (verb) to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly | Synonyms: slide |
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slithering | (adjective) moving as on a slippery surface | Synonyms: slipping |
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slithery | (adjective) having a slippery surface or quality | - |
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sliver | (noun) a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something | Synonyms: paring, shaving |
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(noun) a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal | Synonyms: splinter |
(verb) break up into splinters or slivers | Synonyms: splinter |
(verb) form into slivers | - |
(verb) divide into slivers or splinters | Synonyms: splinter |
slivery | (adjective) resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points | Synonyms: splintery |
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slivovitz | (noun) a colorless plum brandy popular in the Balkans | - |
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