shine vs slug

shine

noun
  • Moonshine; illicitly brewed alcoholic drink. 

  • Shoeshine. 

  • Brightness from reflected light. 

  • Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour. 

  • Brightness from a source of light. 

  • Sunshine. 

  • A liking for a person; a fancy. 

  • The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball. 

verb
  • To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing. 

  • To emit or reflect light so as to glow. 

  • To be effulgent in splendour or beauty. 

  • To distinguish oneself; to excel. 

  • To be immediately apparent. 

  • To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar). 

  • To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers. 

  • To reflect light. 

  • To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something). 

  • To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light. 

slug

noun
  • A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic. 

  • A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use. 

  • A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. 

  • The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename. 

  • A hard blow, usually with the fist. 

  • A black screen. 

  • A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together. 

  • A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug. 

  • A ship that sails slowly. 

  • The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it. 

  • A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal. 

  • Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. 

  • An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab. 

  • A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes. 

  • A hitchhiking commuter. 

  • A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines. 

  • A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material. 

verb
  • To hit very hard, usually with the fist. 

  • To drink quickly; to gulp; to down. 

  • To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking. 

  • To make sluggish. 

  • To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel. 

  • To load with a slug or slugs. 

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