SLIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slime mean? 

• SLIME (noun)
  The noun SLIME has 1 sense:

1. any thick, viscous matter

  Familiarity information: SLIME used as a noun is very rare.

• SLIME (verb)
  The verb SLIME has 1 sense:

1. cover or stain with slime

  Familiarity information: SLIME used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any thick, viscous matter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

goo; gook; goop; guck; gunk; muck; ooze; slime; sludge

Hypernyms ("slime" is a kind of...):

matter (that which has mass and occupies space)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slime"):

sapropel (sludge (rich in organic matter) that accumulates at the bottom of lakes or oceans)

Derivation:

slime (cover or stain with slime)

slimy (covered with or resembling slime)

• SLIME (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cover or stain with slime

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The snake slimed his victim

Hypernyms (to "slime" is one way to...):

begrime; bemire; colly; dirty; grime; soil (make soiled, filthy, or dirty)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

slime (any thick, viscous matter)

 Context examples 

But saints in slime—ah, that was the everlasting wonder!

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Many times we were up to our waists in the slime and blubber of an old, semi-tropical swamp.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Life had become cheap and tawdry, a beastly and inarticulate thing, a soulless stirring of the ooze and slime.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

When the frog was got in, it hopped at once half the length of the boat, and then over my head, backward and forward, daubing my face and clothes with its odious slime.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I acknowledged no natural claim on Adele's part to be supported by me, nor do I now acknowledge any, for I am not her father; but hearing that she was quite destitute, I e'en took the poor thing out of the slime and mud of Paris, and transplanted it here, to grow up clean in the wholesome soil of an English country garden.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We have been privileged to overhear a prehistoric tragedy, the sort of drama which occurred among the reeds upon the border of some Jurassic lagoon, when the greater dragon pinned the lesser among the slime, said Challenger, with more solemnity than I had ever heard in his voice.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was in obedience to law that the bird flew, and it was in obedience to the same law that fermenting slime had writhed and squirmed and put out legs and wings and become a bird.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The glamour of inexperience is over your eyes, he answered; and you see it through a charmed medium: you cannot discern that the gilding is slime and the silk draperies cobwebs; that the marble is sordid slate, and the polished woods mere refuse chips and scaly bark.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He took notice of a general tradition, that Yahoos had not been always in their country; but that many ages ago, two of these brutes appeared together upon a mountain; whether produced by the heat of the sun upon corrupted mud and slime, or from the ooze and froth of the sea, was never known; that these Yahoos engendered, and their brood, in a short time, grew so numerous as to overrun and infest the whole nation; that the Houyhnhnms, to get rid of this evil, made a general hunting, and at last enclosed the whole herd; and destroying the elder, every Houyhnhnm kept two young ones in a kennel, and brought them to such a degree of tameness, as an animal, so savage by nature, can be capable of acquiring, using them for draught and carriage; that there seemed to be much truth in this tradition, and that those creatures could not be yinhniamshy (or aborigines of the land), because of the violent hatred the Houyhnhnms, as well as all other animals, bore them, which, although their evil disposition sufficiently deserved, could never have arrived at so high a degree if they had been aborigines, or else they would have long since been rooted out; that the inhabitants, taking a fancy to use the service of the Yahoos, had, very imprudently, neglected to cultivate the breed of asses, which are a comely animal, easily kept, more tame and orderly, without any offensive smell, strong enough for labour, although they yield to the other in agility of body, and if their braying be no agreeable sound, it is far preferable to the horrible howlings of the Yahoos.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)