Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SLUG

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Definitions of SLUG

1. A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
2. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
3. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
4. A ship that sails slowly.
5. To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
6. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
7. To make sluggish.
8. (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard. [from early 15^th c.]
9. A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. [from 1620s]
10. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines. [from 1880s]
11. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic. [from 1750s]
12. (journalism) 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. [from 1920s]
13. (physics, rare) 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.
14. (railroading) 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.
15. (metal typesetting) 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.
16. (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
17. (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
18. (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
19. (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
20. (obsolete, intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
21. (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
22. A hard blow, usually with the fist. [from 1830s]
23. (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
24. Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. [from early 18^th c.]
25. (television editing) A black screen used to separate broadcast items.
26. (web development, SEO) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
27. (screenwriting) A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.
28. (herpetology) An infertile egg of a reptile.
29. (US, finance, informal) A special-purpose security of the State and Local Government Series.

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Examples of Using SLUG in a Sentence

• A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, peppergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge known as a shotshell, which discharges numerous small spherical projectiles called shot, or a single solid projectile called a slug.
• A cartridge, also known as a round, is a type of pre-assembled firearm ammunition packaging a projectile (bullet, shot, or slug), a propellant substance (smokeless powder, black powder substitute, or black powder) and an ignition device (primer) within a metallic, paper, or plastic case that is precisely made to fit within the barrel chamber of a breechloading gun, for convenient transportation and handling during shooting.
• Of the 56 characters on the print slug, only 47 were printable with the standard valid character set of the IBM 305 computer—the complete alphabet, numbers 0–9, and eleven special characters (48 characters, including the blank character).
• The park protects a wide range of biomes, including semi-arid woodland, subalpine heath, and eucalypt forests, and provides a habitat for a range of animals, including bats, birds, wallabies, quolls, and the unique red triangle slug (Triboniophorus graeffei), which is known to appear after rainfall.
• The assembled line is then cast as a single piece, called a slug, from molten type metal in a process known as hot metal typesetting.
• However, when the food supply is exhausted, they aggregate to form a multicellular assembly, called a pseudoplasmodium, grex, or slug (not to be confused with the gastropod mollusc called a slug).
• The 315 kg test slug reached an altitude of 3000 meters with a flight time of about 58 seconds at a launch velocity of 1,000 m/s before coming down a kilometer off-shore.
• Some species of gastropod mollusc, such as the eastern emerald sea slug, are even capable of kleptoplastic photosynthesis via endosymbiosis with ingested yellow-green algae.
• For example, is "Hogshead" out (the head of a hog) or no points (the type of barrel known as a hogshead)? Does the "Highwayman's Arms" get a player out, treating "arms" as naming the highwayman's front limbs, or two points, counting his legs and treating "arms" as referring to his weapons? Is "King Henry's Rest" two points because of the King or no points because the "Rest" is an inanimate object? How many horses are there in "Coach and Horses"? Does the slug in "The Slug and Lettuce" have one leg or no legs?.
• In some terrestrial species the penultimate larval instar emerges from the snail or slug it developed in.
• The California sea hare (Aplysia californica) is a species of sea slug in the sea hare family, Aplysiidae.
• The name "sea slug" is often applied to nudibranchs and a paraphyletic set of other marine gastropods without apparent shells.
• The Aplysia gill and siphon withdrawal reflex (GSWR) is an involuntary, defensive reflex of the sea hare Aplysia californica, a large shell-less sea snail or sea slug.
• Bursatella leachii, whose common name is the ragged sea hare or shaggy sea hare, is a species of large sea slug: a marine gastropod mollusk in the sea hare family Aplysiidae.
• Syphonota geographica, or the geographic sea hare, is a species of sea slug or sea hare, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae, the sea hares.
• Blanking punch – performs a dual-purpose operation where either a profiled slug, called the blank, is cut out and used for further working, or where a finished piece is cut free from the sheet metal.
• Early shotgun slugs were "rifled" with deformable fins cast into the outside of the soft lead slug, which allowed the slug to swage down to fit the choke.
• AP5 blocks the cellular analog of classical conditioning in the sea slug Aplysia californica, and has similar effects on Aplysia long-term potentiation (LTP), since NMDA receptors are required for both.

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