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SLIM
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Irregular inflected forms: slimmer , slimmest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being of delicate or slender build
Example:
watched her slight figure cross the street
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)
Derivation:
slimness (the property of an attractively thin person)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Small in quantity
Example:
a small surplus
Synonyms:
slender; slim
Classified under:
Similar:
little; small (limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Derivation:
slimness (a small margin)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they slim ... he / she / it slims
Past simple: slimmed
Past participle: slimmed
-ing form: slimming
Sense 1
Meaning:
Take off weight
Synonyms:
melt off; reduce; slenderize; slim; slim down; thin
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "slim" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "slim"):
sweat off (lose weight by sweating)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Context examples:
Their sacks were slim, and with his own the three partners could rake together only two hundred dollars.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
She was rather above the middle height, slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against the absolute pallor of her skin.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A draggled muslin cap on his head and a dirty gunny-sack about his slim hips proclaimed him cook of the decidedly dirty ship’s galley in which I found myself.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Between and a little in front of them on a humble charette or stool, sat a slim, dark young man, whose quiet attire and modest manner would scarce proclaim him to be the most noted prince in Europe.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An atmosphere between 1 and 10 bars on LHS 3844b has been almost entirely ruled out as well, although the authors note there's a slim chance it could exist if the stellar and planetary properties were to meet some very specific and unlikely criteria.
(A Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface, NASA)
Also is there bad water at Cambell Fort, where the Yukon goes slim like a maiden, and the water is fast, and the currents rush this way and that and come together, and there are whirls and sucks, and always are the currents changing and the face of the water changing, so at any two times it is never the same.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The other was as certainly Georgiana: but not the Georgiana I remembered—the slim and fairy-like girl of eleven.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They really fitted him,—it was his first made- to-order suit,—and he seemed slimmer and better modelled.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In front of him, in the full glare of the electric light, there stood a tall, slim, dark woman, a veil over her face, a mantle drawn round her chin.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had hurried by.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
