slim

6 definitions found

slim - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Slim \Slim\ (sl[i^]m), a. [Compar. Slimmer; superl.
     Slimmest.] [Formerly, bad, worthless, weak, slight, awry,
     fr. D. slim; akin to G. schlimm, MHG. slimp oblique, awry; of
     uncertain origin. The meaning of the English word seems to
     have been influenced by slender.]
     1. Worthless; bad. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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     2. Weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument.
        "That was a slim excuse." --Barrow.
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     3. Of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height
        or length; slender; as, a slim person; a slim tree.
        --Grose.
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slim - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  slim
      adj 1: being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a
             willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with
             straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross
             the street" [syn: slender, slight, slim, svelte]
      2: small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of
         winning"; "a small surplus" [syn: slender, slim]
      v 1: take off weight [syn: reduce, melt off, lose weight,
           slim, slenderize, thin, slim down] [ant: gain,
           put on]

slim - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  slim
  
     <jargon> A small, derivative change (e.g. to code).
  
     (2003-05-13)
  

  SLIM
  
     A VLSI language for translating DFA's into circuits.
     J.L. Hennessy, "SLIM: A Simulation and Implementation Language
     for VLSI Microcode", Lambda, Apr 1981, pp.20-28.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

slim - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  slim
   n.
  
     A small, derivative change (e.g., to code).
  

slim - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  138 Moby Thesaurus words for "slim":
     Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, adroit, airy, ascetic, attenuate,
     attenuated, austere, barebones, bean pole, beanstalk, boyish,
     broomstick, canny, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, clothes pole,
     corpse, cunning, delicate, dexterous, diaphanous, diet, diluted,
     dwarfed, dwarfish, ethereal, exiguous, fat, fine, fine-drawn,
     finespun, flimsy, frail, frugal, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile,
     impoverished, infrequent, ingenious, insubstantial, jejune, lacy,
     lanky, lean, light, limited, lissome, lithe, lithesome,
     lose weight, meager, mean, miserly, misty, narrow, negligible,
     niggardly, off, outside, paltry, papery, parsimonious, piddling,
     poor, puny, rare, rarefied, rattlebones, reduce, reedy, scant,
     scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy,
     seldom met with, seldom seen, shadow, skeleton, skimp, skimping,
     skimpy, slender, slenderish, slenderize, slight, slight-made,
     slimmish, slinky, sly, small, spare, sparing, sparse, spindlelegs,
     spindleshanks, spotty, sprinkled, stack of bones, starvation,
     stilt, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, subtle,
     svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun,
     thinnish, threadlike, tight, twiggy, unnourishing, unnutritious,
     vague, walking skeleton, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down,
     watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy