Slime

Definition: Slime

Slime

Noun

1. Any thick messy substance.

Verb

1. Cover or stain with slime; "The snake slimed his victim".

Date "slime" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definition
Bible	Slime (Gen. 11:3; LXX., "asphalt;" R.V. marg., "bitumen"). The vale of Siddim was full of slime pits (14:10). Jochebed daubed the "ark of bulrushes" with slime (Ex. 2:3). (See PITCH.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
Chemistry	A finely divided insoluble metal or compound that forms on the surface of an electrode or in the solution during electrolysis. Source: European Union. (references)
Food & Agriculture	Visible and tangible layer of microbial colonies spread over surface of spoiling meat or fish. Source: European Union. (references)
	Substances of viscous organic nature, usually formed from microbiological growth. Source: European Union. (references)
Industry	A mucous deposit on surfaces in contact with stock or white water produced by the action of bacteria, fungi or algae. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. Extremely fine sediment (#200 mesh), produced in the processing of ore or rock, esp. phosphate rock, which remains suspended in water indefinitely. Consists chiefly of clay. b. A material of extremely fine particle size encountered in ore treatment c. Anode slimes are the metals or metal compounds left at, or falling from, the anode during electrolytic refining of metals. See also:anode slime d. A mixture of metals and some insoluble compounds that forms on the anode in electrolysis e. A product of wet grinding containing valuable ore in particles so fine as to be carried in suspension by water; chiefly used in the plural f. In metallurgy, ore reduced to a very fine powder and held in suspension in water so as to form a kind of thin ore mud; generally used in the plural. g. Primary slimes are extremely fine particles derived from ore, associated rock, clay, or altered rock. They are usually found in old dumps and in ore deposits that have been exposed to climatic action; they include clay, alumina, hydrated iron, near-colloidal common earths, and weathered feldspars. Secondary slimes are very finely ground minerals fromthe true ore. (references)
Multilingual Slang	Alemannic (schleim ). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
SLIME	English	Subsurface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystem	Environment
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Slime

Synonyms: goo (n), gook (n), guck (n), gunk (n), muck (n), ooze (n), sludge (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Semiliquidity	Emulsion, soup; squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze; moisture; marsh .
Uncleanness	Mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	What's with that slime on your backpack? (The Blair Witch Project; writing credit: Daniel Myrick; Eduardo Sánchez) You two-toned, zebra headed, slime coated,pimple farming, parimicium brain, munching on your own mucus suffering from Peter Pan envy. (Hook; writing credit: James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo. Based on the play 'Peter Pan' by J.M. Barrie.) We're all basically primeval slime with ideas above its station. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) Maybe now you'll never slime a guy with a positron collider, huh? (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis) Compared to God, the Slime Monster is like a teeny little cornflake! (VeggieTales: Where's God When I'm S-Scared?; writing credit: Norma Marcos)
Movie/TV Titles	The Green Slime (1968) Le Marquis de Slime (1997) Slime City (1989) Silver Slime (1981)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Bride of the Slime Monster (Cinverse Cycle, Reel 2) (reference) Girls for the Slime God (reference) Green Slime and Jam (reference) Slime (reference) Slime Wars (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Alien Collection (Creature, Slime People) (reference) The Slime People (reference) Vol. 1-Creature/The Slime Peop (reference) Slime City (reference) Slime People (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Buckets of slime eels to be used for bait on the dock. Credit: Fisheries.		Plate 252. The Slime Eel, or Hag. Myxine glutinosa, L. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He entered into this slime.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Slime" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.57% of the time. "Slime" is used about 140 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.57%	138	27,024
Noun (proper)	1.43%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	140	N/A

Expressions using "slime": acellular slime mold ♦ cellular slime mold ♦ Fischer's slime mushroom ♦ plasmodial slime mold ♦ slime bacteria ♦ slime eel ♦ slime eels ♦ slime gland ♦ slime mold ♦ slime mould ♦ slime mushroom ♦ slime out of a difficulty ♦ slime pit ♦ slime through of a difficulty ♦ true slime mold ♦ white slime mushroom. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "slime": slime-bag, slime-ball, slime-covered, slime-encrusted, slime-laden, slime-line, slime-moulds.
	Ending with "slime": bio-slime, pond-slime.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "slime"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		baltë (clay, dirt, foulness, mire, muck, mud, muddiness, ooze, silt, slob, soil). (various references)

Arabic		‏مادة لعابية لزجة, ‏وحل (bespatter, clay, dirt, mire, mud, muddling, muddy, ooze, quaggy, silt, slob), ‏غرين (alluvial, alluvium, silt), ‏سال لعابه (dribble, drivel, drool, salivate, slaver, slobber), ‏طين (clay, daub, earth, loam, lute, luting, mire, muck, mud, ooze, point, silt, sludge, slush), ‏أزال الشحم (grease, skim). (various references)

Bulgarian		слуз (mucus, phlegm), тиня (mire, mud, ooze, silt, slob), кал (dirt, mire, muck, mud, ooze, slob, slop), лепкава кал, лигавина, покривам със слуз, подлизурство (fawning, obsequiousness, sycophancy, toad-eating, toadyism), изчиствам от слуз. (various references)

Chinese		软泥. (various references)

Czech		sliz (mucus, ooze), hlen (phlegm). (various references)

Danish		dynd (dirt, mud). (various references)

Dutch		slib (dirt, mud), modder (dirt, mud), drek (dirt, dung, excrement, mud). (various references)

Esperanto		ŝlimo (mud). (various references)

Faeroese		runa (dirt, mud), móra (dirt, mud). (various references)

Farsi		چیزچسبناک , لعاب (Glaze, Mucilage), لجن مال کردن , لجن وگل , خزیدن (Crawl, Creep, Glide, Grovel, Ramp, Slither, Worm). (various references)

Finnish		lima (dirt, mucus, mud, phlegm), lieju (mire, mud, ooze). (various references)

French		limon, vase (sludge), bourbe (sludge), boue (sludge). (various references)

Frisian		modder (dirt, ground, mud, soil), dridze (dirt, mud), drek (dirt, mud), blabze (dirt, mud), blabber (dirt, mud). (various references)

German		Schleim (gruel, mucilage, mucus, phlegm, rheum), Schlamm (dirt, mire, mud, ooze, silt, silts, sludge). (various references)

Greek		λάσπη (alluvium, cement, clay, mire, mortar, mud, ooze, puddle, silt, slab, slosh, sludge). (various references)

Hawaiian		baltë (dirt, mud). (various references)

Hebrew		בוץ � וזלי (ooze), רפש (mire, mud, sludge). (various references)

Hungarian		iszap (dross, mud, ooze, paddle, posh, silt, slob, sludge, slurry). (various references)

Indonesian		lumpur (mire, mud, ooze, slosh, sludge, slush), geladir (mucus, phlegm). (various references)

Italian		limo (silt). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ヘッディング開始 (chemical ooze, head, head coach, head piece, head sliding, head up, head voice, headgear, headhunter, head-hunting, heading, headlight, headlock, headphone, headspin, heavy, heavy metal, heavy smoker, hedonism, hetero, heterodox, heterogeneous, heterosis, recruiting professionals from other companies, sludge, start of heading), 滑り (mucus, sliding, slipping, viscous liquid), スライド制 (sliding scale system). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ヘドロ (chemical ooze, sludge), ぬめり (mucus, viscous liquid), スライ� . (various references)

Korean		� �액 (Mucilage, Mucus). (various references)

Malay		lumpur (dirt, mud). (various references)

Manx		sleetch (deceitful person, loiterer, loiterer with intent, lurker, nark, slippery person, sneak), scroig (crust, incrustation, scab, scale, scarf-skin), glooie (adhesive, glue). (various references)

Papiamen		pòchòpòchò (dirt, mud), pèchèpèchè (dirt, mud), lodo (dirt, mud), lebelebe (dirt, mud), lèbèlèbè (dirt, mud), chèpèchèpè (dirt, mud). (various references)

Pig Latin		imeslay

Portuguese		lodo (clay, dirt, mud, ooze, silt, slob, sludge, slurry, slush), limo (mud, ooze, silt, slob). (various references)

Romanian		umple de noroi (mire), tinã (clay, ooze), noroi (clay, filth, mire, muck, mud, ooze, sediment, slush), nåmol (dirt, mud), mocirlã (bog, Marsh, morass, sink, slush), mâzgã, clisã (mire), bitum lichid, bale (slabber, slaver, slobber), acoperi cu nãmol. (various references)

Russian		слизь (mucilage, mucus). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mulj (mud, ooze, silt, sludge), glib (mire, ooze, silt). (various references)

Spanish		limo (silt), lodo (dirt, mire, mud, ordure, sludge), légamo (silt), barro (clay, dirt, mud, paste), baba (raft, slaver, slobber, spittle). (various references)

Sranan		tokotoko (dirt, mud). (various references)

Swedish		slam (dirt, mud, ooze, silt, slam, sludge), slem (expectoration, mucus, phlegm), gyttja (dirt, mire, mud, ooze, Slough), dy (dirt, mire, mud, ooze, sludge, slush). (various references)

Thai		เลน, น้ำเมือกที่หลั่งจากสัตว์, ละเลง�"้วยโคลน. (various references)

Turkish		sümüksü madde, sümük (mucus, snivel, snot), yaltakçı (adulatory, bootlicker, crawler, creep, creeper, cringing, greaser, groveler, groveller, lickspittle, obsequious, oily, servile, slimy, smarmy, wheedling), yağcı (apple polisher, buttery, crawler, deadhead, flatterer, greaser, greasy, gushing, gushy, lickspittle, loader, obsequious, oily, oleaginous, reptilian, silky, sleek, soapy, suck, sucker, toady), balçık (argil, clay, wet clay), çamurlamak (bedrabble, bedraggle, bemire, bespatter, mire, muddy, puddle, puddle about, soil with mud), çamurla sıvamak, çamur (aspersion, calumniation, clay, daub, dirt, gook, mire, muck, mud, slob, slosh, slush, soggy, squelch). (various references)

Turkmen		batga (mud, swamp). (various references)

Ukrainian		слиз (mucilage, mucus, phlegm), каламуть, вкривати мулом, обволікатися слизом, обволікати слизом, мул (clay, mud, mule, ooze, silt). (various references)

Welsh		llysnafedd (snivel). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	caeni, caeno, cena, cenis, limo, limum, mucus, spuma, spumam, virus. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	slyppe. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Genesis Chapter 11, Verse 3
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai eipen anqrwpoV tw plhsion deute plinqeuswmen plinqouV kai opthswmen autaV puri kai egeneto autoiV h plinqoV eiV liqon kai asfaltoV hn autoiV o phloV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Dixitque alter ad proximum suum venite faciamus lateres et coquamus eos igni habueruntque lateres pro saxis et bitumen pro cemento
Old English	990	West Saxon	Ða cwædon hi him betwynan, "Uton wyrcean us tigelan ond ælan hi on fyre." Witodlice hi hæfdon tigelan for stan ond tyrwan for weall-lim.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And the tother seide to his neiybore, Cometh, and make we tile stoons, and sethe we hem with fier; and thei hadden tiles for stoons, and towy cley for syment.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And they sayd one to a nother: come on let us make brycke ad burne it wyth fyre. So brycke was there stone and slyme was there morter
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And they said one to another, come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Genesis Chapter 11, Verse 3
Cebuano	Ug sila nasig-ingon ang usa ug usa: Umari kamo. Magbuhat kita ug tisa ug pagbahon ta ug maayo. Ug sila may tisa nga gigamit nga alili sa bato, ug may salong nga alili sa apog.
Croatian	Jedan drugome reèe: "Hajdemo praviti opeke te ih peæi da otvrdnu!" Opeke im bile mjesto kamena, a paklina im služila za žbuku.
Danish	Da sagde de til hverandre: "Kom, lad os stryge Teglsten og brænde dem godt!" De brugte nemlig Tegl som Sten og Jordbeg som Kalk.
Dutch	En zij zeiden een ieder tot zijn naaste: Kom aan, laat ons tichelen strijken, en wel doorbranden! En de tichel was hun voor steen, en het lijm was hun voor leem.
Finnish	Ja he sanoivat toisillensa: "Tulkaa, tehkäämme tiiliä ja polttakaamme ne koviksi". Ja tiiltä he käyttivät kivenä, ja maapihkaa he käyttivät laastina.
French	Ils se dirent l`un � l`autre: Allons! faisons des briques, et cuisons-les au feu. Et la brique leur servit de pierre, et le bitume leur servit de ciment.
German	Und sie sprachen untereinander: Wohlauf, laß uns Ziegel streichen und brennen! und nahmen Ziegel zu Stein und Erdharz zu Kalk
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Mereka berkata seorang kepada yang lain, "Ayo kita membuat batu bata dan membakarnya sampai keras." Demikianlah mereka mempunyai batu bata untuk batu rumah dan ter untuk bahan perekatnya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka kata mereka itu seorang kepada seorang: Mari kita memperbuat batu bata serta membakar akan dia baik-baik. Maka batu bata itu baginya akan ganti batu betul dan gala-gala akan ganti kapur.
Italian	Si dissero l'un l'altro: «Venite, facciamoci mattoni e cuociamoli al fuoco». Il mattone servì loro da pietra e il bitume da cemento.
Maori	Na ka mea ratou ki tona hoa, ki tona hoa, Tena, tatou ka hanga pereki, me ata tahu marire ano hoki. Na ka meinga e ratou he pereki hei kohatu, he uku hoki ta ratou moata.
Norwegian	Og de sa til hverandre: Kom, la oss gjøre teglsten og brenne dem vel! Og de brukte tegl istedenfor sten, og jordbek istedenfor kalk.
Portuguese	Disseram uns aos outros: Eia pois, façamos tijolos, e queimemo-los bem. Os tijolos lhes serviram de pedras e o betume de argamassa.
Rumanian	Wi au zis unul cqtre altul: ,,Haidem! sq facem cqrqmizi, wi sq le ardem bine kn foc.`` Wi cqrqmida le -a yinut loc de piatrq, iar smoala le -a yinut loc de var.
Spanish	Entonces se dijeron unos a otros: "Venid, hagamos adobes y quemémoslos con fuego." Así empezaron a usar ladrillo en lugar de piedra, y brea en lugar de mortero.
Swedish	Och de sade till varandra: "Kom, låt oss slå tegel och bränna det." Och teglet begagnade de såsom sten, och såsom murbruk begagnade de jordbeck.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "slime": slimeball, slimeballs, slimed, slimes. (additional references)
	Words ending with "slime": beslime. (additional references)
	Words containing "slime": beslimed, beslimes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Slime" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: glime, islimi, lsme, Salimov, sdlime, Selima, shime, Sillamae, silm, sime, simi, skimet, slame, slamo, slie, slieu, slife, slile, slimb, slimee, slimer, slimey, Slimp, sline, slire, Slive, slome, slune, Solimena, splime, Syleyma. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "slime" (pronounced slī"m)
3	-l ī" m	climb, lime, sublime.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: limes, miles, smile.
	Words within the letters "e-i-l-m-s"
	-1 letter: elms, isle, leis, lies, lime, mels, mile, mils, mise, semi, slim.
	-2 letters: elm, els, ems, ism, lei, lie, lis, mel, mil, mis, sei, sel, sim.
	-3 letters: el, em, es, is, li, me, mi, si.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-l-m-s"
	+1 letter: climes, elemis, emails, gimels, glimes, impels, kelims, limens, limeys, mailes, mesial, milers, milles, misled, mislie, missel, molies, muesli, samiel, simile, simnel, simple, slimed, slimes, smiled, smiler, smiles, smiley.
	+2 letters: aimless, beslime, besmile, blemish, delimes, dimples, dishelm, elitism, elmiest, filmers, filmset, fimbles, flemish, gimlets, glimpse, heliums, himself, illumes, impales, implies, impulse, lambies, leftism, limbers, limiest, limites, limmers, limners, limpers, limpest, limpets, limpsey, lissome, lomeins, mailers, malaise, malices, malines, mealies, medials, megilps, melisma, meloids, menials, merlins, messily, micells, mickles, middles, midlegs, midsole, miggles, milages, mildens, mildest, mildews, milieus, milkers, millers, millets, milnebs, milreis, milters, mingles, misdeal, miserly, misfile, mislead, mislies, mislike, mislive, mispled, misrely, misrule, missels, missile, mizzles, mobiles, moilers, mollies, motiles, mueslis, muhlies, myelins, obelism, pimples, plenism, prelims, realism, refilms, remails, rimless, rimples, samiels, seismal, semilog, seminal, similes, simnels, simpler, simples, simplex, slimier, slimmed, slimmer, smilers, smileys, sublime, wimbles, wimples.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6C 69 6D 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

... .-.. .. -- .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101100 01101001 01101101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#108 &#105 &#109 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006C 0069 006D 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
slime volleyball	2,706	cricket slime	33
slime soccer	1,901	cup slime world	32
basketball slime	633	flying slime	32
one slime	545	dunk slime	31
slime	504	one slime soccer	30
game slime	473	green slime	28
slime sports	441	power slime volleyball	27
ball slime	341	slime volley	25
recipe slime	117	baseball slime	24
bowling slime	113	hockey slime	22
flying slime volleyball	96	making slime	22
make slime	94	slime time	19
football slime	78	ball slime soccer	18
ball slime volley	75	slime sports.com	17
cup slime soccer world	71	1 slime	15
slime mold	70	slime tennis	15
basketball dunk slime	68	homemade slime	14
live slime time	67	nickelodeon slime	14
boxing slime	40	afl slime	14
power slime	36	red slime algae	14
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Slime

Definition: Slime

Slime

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definition: Slime

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Slime

SLIME

Synonyms: Slime

Synonyms within Context: Slime

Semiliquidity

Uncleanness

Crosswords: Slime

Modern Usage: Slime

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Slime

Books

Theater & Movies

Image Slideshow: Slime

Illustrations:Slime

Computer Images:Slime

Photo Album: Slime

Use in Literature: Slime

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Usage Frequency: Slime

Expressions: Slime

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Slime

Modern Translation: Slime

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Chinese

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

Faeroese

Farsi

Finnish

French

Frisian

German

Greek

Hawaiian

Hebrew

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Indonesian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

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Korean

Malay

Manx

Papiamen

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Romanian

Russian

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Spanish

Sranan

Swedish

Thai

Turkish

Turkmen

Ukrainian

Welsh

Ancestral Language Translations: Slime

Bible Trace: Slime

Matched Bible Translations: Slime

Derivations & Misspellings: Slime

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Slime"

Anagrams: Slime

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Slime

53 6C 69 6D 65

Illustrations:
Slime

Computer Images:
Slime