(v. t.) To shut with force and a loud noise; to bang; as, he slammed the door.
(v. t.) To put in or on some place with force and loud noise; -- usually with down; as, to slam a trunk down on the pavement.
(v. t.) To strike with some implement with force; hence, to beat or cuff.
(v. t.) To strike down; to slaughter.
(v. t.) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
(v. i.) To come or swing against something, or to shut, with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise; as, a door or shutter slams.
(n.) The act of one who, or that which, slams.
(n.) The shock and noise produced in slamming.
(n.) Winning all the tricks of a deal.
(n.) The refuse of alum works.
Example Sentences:
(1) To selectively stain polyanionic macromolecules of growth plate cartilage and to prevent artifacts induced by aqueous fixation, proximal tibial growth plates were excised from rats, slam-frozen, and freeze-substituted in 100% methanol containing the cationic dye Alcian blue.
(2) "More than most British players, I have been asked about it many times when I got close to winning grand slams before.
(3) At that point I was grabbed by the Belgian secret service and slammed against the glass.
(4) When he first became president, Republicans slammed him for being a socialist – an epithet, from their lips, of the worst kind.
(5) Seeb slams a copy of their licence application on the table – it's well over an inch thick.
(6) They've all had the courthouse doors slammed shut in the faces by courts that have accepted the US government's claims that its own secrecy powers and immunity rights bar any such justice.
(7) After a dramatic pause that would have done Harold Pinter proud, Andy Murray has appointed Ivan Lendl as his coach, a move he hopes will bring him his first grand slam victory in the Australian Open, which starts on 16 January.
(8) I’ve lost slam finals and stuff, which has been very tough.
(9) There are going to be downs and I'll lose close matches, but I hope I'll be in a position to play for grand slams in the future.
(10) The chancellor stressed that Britain’s relationship with the EU would remain unchanged for the time being – and ditched the idea, launched alongside his predecessor Alistair Darling during the campaign – that an emergency budget would be necessary within weeks, as Brexit slams the brakes on the economy.
(11) Six systems for defining and evaluating disease activity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (the Ropes system, the National Institutes of Health [NIH] system, the New York Hospital for Special Surgery system, the British Isles Lupus Assessment Group [BILAG] scale, the University of Toronto SLE Disease Activity Index [SLE-DAI], and the Systemic Lupus Activity Measure [SLAM]) were tested on 25 SLE patients who were selected to represent a range of disease activity.
(12) Given the paucity of British talent in the sport over recent decades, it is a tribute to Murray's remarkable consistency that in his last eight grand slam tournaments, he has reached three finals, four semi-finals and a quarter-final – not to mention overcoming Federer on Wimbledon's Centre Court to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
(13) Andy McDonald, the shadow transport secretary, said: “In opposition the Tories slammed the closure of lines over Christmas for engineering works, but now they’re in a position to do something about it they don’t seem to care.
(14) She has also slammed the “illogical and outright offensive” language used by those against same-sex marriage.
(15) The grand slam champions so far this year are myself and Li Na [in the Australian Open],” she said.
(16) People tend to forget he is playing in an era with 3 players who are likely to be remembered as three of the all-time greatest, so the fact that he is managing to win slams is fairly amazing, and something that won’t be properly appreciated until he retires.
(17) ‘Dysfunctional’ ABC management slammed Trevor Bormann, last year’s Walkley winner for Foreign Correspondent’s “Prisoner X” scoop, has dumped a bucket on ABC news management on the way out the door.
(18) This week people around the internet have taken to photoshopping WWE wrestler Randy Orton’s famous head slam move on to videos of people falling over.
(19) In fact, the whole thing could have been worse had it not been for Carlos Beltran stealing a grand slam away from David Ortiz in the second inning.
(20) Following narrow defeat at the All England Club, Murray provided a glorious coda in the early hours of Tuesday morning with a US Open victory in his fifth grand slam final.
Splutter
Definition:
(v. i.) To speak hastily and confusedly; to sputter.
(n.) A confused noise, as of hasty speaking.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gerhard Schröder , Merkel’s immediate predecessor, had pushed through parliament a radical reform agenda to get the country’s spluttering economy back on track.
(2) Thereafter they both got so angry with one another they started adopting each other's pet phrases – "I won't be lectured to by..." – and there was the unnerving possibility they might just morph into a single, spluttering entity.
(3) The very thought is enough to get older Tory MPs spluttering into their gin this weekend – but it's probably a factor and a very zeitgeisty one.
(4) There are still two episodes to go before it splutters over the finishing line.
(5) Most worrying of all, despite the head's spluttered remonstration, the parent didn't seem to get the point that school comes first.
(6) "Yes OK, but I don't want to die," Duncan splutters.
(7) That would be an unfortunate ending to a process that should have been a timely intervention on a vital issue but now looks likely to splutter to a hazy conclusion.
(8) So when Bill Gates pitched into the debate last week with a proposal that robots should be taxed , just like human workers are, you can imagine the splutters of outrage from the neoliberal fortresses of Silicon Valley.
(9) There was a presumption in the chief executive’s comments in Chantilly on Tuesday as England conducted their painful post-mortem of the spluttering campaign at Euro 2016.
(10) But back in Paris, the tone was one of spluttering outrage.
(11) splutters John Lally, zoning in on the claim that Hazlehurst was up there with Stockhausen et al .
(12) And now there is choking and spluttering and shouts and confusion and everyone begins to turn and run back the way they came.
(13) That's assuming the hiccup in the core UK business doesn't develop into a full-blown splutter.
(14) Collateral damage extends to the spluttering peace process with the Taliban.
(15) Marc Wilmots’ complaints about his opponents’ style and tactics rather ignored the reality that his own charges had spluttered when an opportunity had been there for the taking, yet their biggest threat at the Estádio Nacional remained their potential.
(16) Consumption is likely to be a spluttering engine of growth, at best.
(17) But they can still appear as champions of the people The old image of the Establishment was summed up by the cartoons of H.M. Bateman in the Twenties, showing a hapless outsider committing a faux pas at a club or grand reception, faced by spluttering colonels or outraged dowagers.
(18) This victory took West Ham nine points clear of 18th-placed Sunderland, whom they visit on Monday, yet such a chasm seems remarkable given the way this team spluttered as they did for long periods here, their football lacking guile and purpose even if the manager said they were "absolutely magnificent".
(19) Although the noise from HP on Tuesday was about the accusations against unnamed former managers at Autonomy , the real concern should be that the company which Silicon Valley once looked to as the engine of invention is spluttering.
(20) This was by no means their worst performance of a spluttering season.