What's the difference between slide and slough?

Slide


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.
  • (v. t.) Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet.
  • (v. t.) To pass inadvertently.
  • (v. t.) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.
  • (v. t.) To slip when walking or standing; to fall.
  • (v. t.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.
  • (v. t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
  • (v. t.) To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.
  • (v. t.) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.
  • (n.) The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
  • (n.) Smooth, even passage or progress.
  • (n.) That on which anything moves by sliding.
  • (n.) An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down.
  • (n.) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.
  • (n.) That which operates by sliding.
  • (n.) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.
  • (n.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.
  • (n.) A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.
  • (n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope.
  • (n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide.
  • (n.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
  • (n.) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
  • (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.
  • (n.) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
  • (n.) Same as Guide bar, under Guide.
  • (n.) A slide valve.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
  • (2) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
  • (3) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
  • (4) That piece was placed on the slide and embedded with a mixture of agar and antiserum.
  • (5) Slides and short films were used in primary and secondary schools.
  • (6) One cytotechnologist screened the slides for all occurrences of a standard set of classic cytopathologic signs.
  • (7) It was the ease with which minor debt could slide into a tangle of hunger and despair.
  • (8) Slide smears revealed the rosette-shaped pattern characteristic of malignant neuroblastoma, many of which were fitted with dendritic plasmatic processes.
  • (9) In the 55th minute Ivanovic dispossessed Bale and beat Ricketts before sliding the ball across to give Tadic a simple finish.
  • (10) Perfused or immersion-fixed epithalamic tissues, sectioned, and mounted on glass slides were processed through the avidin-biotin immunofluorescence method.
  • (11) The staining method consisted of sequential treatment of slides with crest serum, fluorosceinated goat-antihuman and swine-antigoat antibodies, and propidium iodide.
  • (12) These additional cues involved different sensations in effort of the perfomed movement – sliding heavy object vs. sliding light object (sS test), as well as different sensations in pattern of movement and joints - sliding vs. lifting of an object (SL test).
  • (13) Portugal's slide towards a Greek-style second bailout accelerated after its principal private lenders indicated that they were growing weary of assurances from Lisbon that it could get on top of the country's debts.
  • (14) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
  • (15) In addition to the cytologic characteristics, the possibility of detecting muscle antigens as markers for these embryonal small cells, even in previously stained slides, provides a successful method for defining the specific type of sarcoma.
  • (16) Tissue slides obtained at autopsy from 80 cases with AIDS were studied immunhistochemically for infection with Toxoplasma gondii.
  • (17) These results confirmed that 'punctuated' labeling was not an artefact due to a distortion of the cell's shape by having been dried on glass slides.
  • (18) The proportion of persons with P. malariae in this sample population, as determined by slide examination, appears to be the greatest ever reported for any area before the introduction of control measures.
  • (19) The new slide latex particle agglutination test gave better results, with 100% specificity, 80% sensitivity, high predictive values (greater than or equal to 91%), and an overall diagnostic efficiency of 93%.
  • (20) No, Did they invent sliding fingers across substances?

Slough


Definition:

  • (a.) Slow.
  • (n.) A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
  • (n.) A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
  • () imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
  • (n.) The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.
  • (n.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
  • (v. i.) To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.
  • (v. t.) To cast off; to discard as refuse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mucosal sloughing with hemorrhage and infarction were observed at 3 hours.
  • (2) More suppliers have told the Guardian of extensive negotiations with Amazon staff in Slough, adding to the impression that the company carries out important trading activities in the UK and so could be liable for tax.
  • (3) In mammalian small intestine absorptive cells are known to migrate from the villus base to the villus tip from which they slough.
  • (4) The most marked effect of the ZnSO4 took the form of necrosis and sloughing of surface cells in both strains one-half day after ZnSO4 irrigation.
  • (5) Cameron’s call for the Malaysian political class to fight corruption came as he pitched the country’s financiers the chance to invest in £17bn worth of UK infrastructure projects ranging from a Leeds orbital road route, Slough town centre and prime residential properties along the Thames.
  • (6) The histopathologic features include peritubular sclerosis, small vessel sclerosis, premature germ cell sloughing, and variable degrees of hypospermatogenesis.
  • (7) Changes in sperm head morphology are caused by (1) a dramatic reshaping and consolidation of the acrosome in which excess plasma membrane overlying it is sloughed as a cluster of vesicles, (2) a reorientation of the nucleus almost parallel to the axis of the tail and (3) distal movement of the droplet from its initial envelopment of the nucleus to an eccentric position on the anterior segment of the midpiece.
  • (8) Acute hypothermia induced a sloughing of cells from the villi into the lumen of the gut, as indicated by an increased DNA in luminal washings.
  • (9) Toxic epidermal necrolysis results in skin sloughing that resembles a partial-thickness thermal injury.
  • (10) Scanning electron microscopy revealed that in diabetic BB rats there was consistent evidence of swollen cells, raised nuclei, and sloughing of nuclei in endothelial cells of the aorta.
  • (11) However, after sloughing of labelled cells in the intestinal lumen, Pu was reabsorbed by the distal epithelial cells.
  • (12) It places the implant deep to prevent skin slough and irregularities in skin surface contour.
  • (13) Newer communities have settled in towns and cities such as Milton Keynes, Slough, Northampton, Southampton, and in London, notably Ealing, Tower Hamlets and Newham.
  • (14) Sloughing vesiculobullous oral lesions are a frequent component.
  • (15) Within 1 day of injury, columnar epithelium sloughed intact from the trachea with a concomitant reduction of nearly 35% in the basal cell population.
  • (16) Early changes (0-2 hours) included focal tumor and endothelial cell vacuolation and swelling as well as sloughing of tumor cells into papillary spaces.
  • (17) Histologically, the 4.0 ppm animals demonstrated bronchiolar epithelial necrosis and sloughing, bronchiolar edema with macrophages, and focal pulmonary edema.
  • (18) Ciliated cells had a slightly vesiculated cytoplasm, and many were in the process of being sloughed from the epithelial surface.
  • (19) Preliminary histochemical studies show that terminin is also found in the superficial epithelial layer of the esophagus, where terminal differentiation is followed by apoptosis and sloughing off into the lumen.
  • (20) In both the mouse and the rat, some of the superficial cells sloughed between fetal day 18 or 19 and the day of birth.