silt vs slime

silt

noun
  • Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water. 

  • Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport. 

  • A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. 

verb
  • To flow through crevices; to percolate. 

  • To clog or fill with silt. 

  • To become clogged with silt. 

slime

noun
  • 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. 

  • A monster having the form of a slimy blob. 

  • Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”) 

  • Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs. 

  • A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball. 

  • A friend; a homie. 

verb
  • To besmirch or disparage. 

  • To carve (fish), removing the offal. 

  • To coat with slime. 

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