(superl.) Weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument.
(superl.) Of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height or length; slender; as, a slim person; a slim tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hopes of a breakthrough are slim, though, after WTO members failed to agree a draft deal to rubber-stamp this week.
(2) Knowing the risks of transporting cocaine from Africa to the US, and given the slim profit margin, “tell me who will be doing that kind of deal?” Chigbo asked.
(3) There are, however, plenty of arguments to be made about the Slim Reaper's supporting cast.
(4) The bank also warned it was not generating as much revenue as it expected from its corporate and institutional banking arm, the new name for its slimmed down investment banking operations.
(5) United have until Thursday to inform the FA about whether they intend to appeal but their chances of overturning the decision look slim given that the governing body has already shown the incident to a panel of three former referees.
(6) Ipso, he concluded, wants to come to this performance “armed with a slim clear book of rules and not with an iron fist”.
(7) The elongate and slim shape of the trunk provides great mass moments of inertia and that means stability against being flexed ventrally and dorsally by the forward and rearward movements of the heavy and long hindlimbs.
(8) Reagan had brilliant advisers who had a command of the issue and had a very good rapport with the key Democrats.” The prospects for a repeat look slim.
(9) He was very slim and sporty, and physically strong.
(10) He has such good body and he has really really good legs Butt… And he is slim tall and good skin."
(11) Slim margin of appreciation The third issue is that the Court is, quite rightly, determined to make sure that consistent standards of rights are upheld across the 47 member states … but at times it has felt to us in national governments that the 'margin of appreciation' – which allows for different interpretations of the Convention – has shrunk ... and that not enough account is being taken of democratic decisions by national parliaments.
(12) Only Olly Robbins, the permanent secretary to the Department for Exiting the European Union , had a slim notebook (shut) and pen.
(13) In conclusion, we can say that the slimming of very obese subjects improves blood and plasma viscosity, but the mechanism by which this improvement occurs is not the one which usually affects the determination of these rates.
(14) But last week's trading statement from Unilever confirmed that, far from cashing in on the dieting craze, Slim Fast's sales have been shrinking faster than a weight watcher's waistline.
(15) Even more welcome is the slimming-down of the syllabus in the new draft, after teachers complained about the overloading of the old one with endless facts and dates; far too many to teach in the time available in schools.
(16) That process could see Kenya’s national anti-doping agency being declared non-compliant – although insiders were keen to stress the chances of the country being removed from the Olympics were slim because the International Olympic Committee would need to kick Kenya out.
(17) Bradley Johnson went close shortly afterwards with a shot from the edge of the area that arced beyond the far post, but pickings were slim.
(18) The presence of gall stones diagnosed by ultrasonography in a cross sectional study was analysed in relation to relative weight, weight change since age 25, slimming treatment, physical activity, smoking, consumption of coffee, and diabetes mellitus.
(19) The ideal drill is a slim straight instrument, which rotates dental burrs and is operated by a light finger pressure.
(20) Costs range from £50 to hire a one-button dinner jacket and trousers or £129 for a "prom package" of slim-fit suit plus shirt and tie.
Slit
Definition:
() 3d. pers. sing. pres. of Slide.
(imp. & p. p.) of Slit
(n.) To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps.
(n.) To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose.
(n.) To cut; to sever; to divide.
(n.) A long cut; a narrow opening; as, a slit in the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was no evidence for ocular trauma, disease, or vascular malformation by slit-lamp examination and gonioscopy.
(2) In normal kidneys fixed by perfusion with tannic acid and glutaraldehyde, glomerular slit diaphragms have been reported to consist of highly ordered and isoporous substructures with a zipper-like configuration.
(3) Neutral dextran clearances for radii greater than 30 A were elevated during the PEAK period, and, concurrently, there was extensive intraglomerular microthrombosis, obliteration of foot processes, and disruption of filtration slit diaphragms.
(4) Neovascular responses were evaluated by daily slit-lamp observations and terminal whole-mount and histologic examinations of colloidal carbon-perfused vessels.
(5) Only 5 or 6 patients could be examined per hour with the 60D slit-lamp compared with 30-35 examined by reading retinal photographs.
(6) This flap is formed by a triangle-shaped excision combined with cranial and caudal slitting of the periosteum.
(7) Negative slit smears for AFB from the nodules repeatedly and the histology of one on the skin nodules clinched the diagnosis of multicentric reticulohistiocytosis.
(8) Incisional slit grafting utilizes larger numbers of smaller grafts than does traditional punch grafting.
(9) After amputation of the closed tip, a cap from a syringe was inserted via a slit made at the base into one prong of a pair of nasal cannulae.
(10) The use of a standard 35 mm camera with a spot metering system to take slit-lamp photographs is described.
(11) Light scatter from epithelial cells in a slit-scan flow system is modeled using the Fraunhofer condition of scalar diffraction theory.
(12) Depending on the slit width of the illumination source, a typical endothelial photomicrograph contains three or four distinct zones.
(13) By using a slit plate, scanographic arterial studies can be performed with a tomographic attachment of an X-ray unit that is normally used for routine radiographic examinations.
(14) The present study, however, qualitatively evaluates the unsharpness of redundant shadows of the mandibular ramus, especially with reference to the effects of first-slit width.
(15) Microcirculation is clearly visible and can be observed on the conjunctival mucosa by means of any microscope and notably with the slit lamp microscope of ophtalmologists.
(16) The dark, luxury air in the silent bedrooms of empty riverside apartments, their identical curving blocks clustered in threes and fours, grim and silent as gill slits, will be theirs.
(17) For the purpose of covering the demerits of the conventional sliding tube, a new slit sliding tube which is made up of three parts was devised by us.
(18) The optimal slit width in the ordinary roentgenokymographic device was found to equal 0.5+0.03 mm, and in the protected roentgenokymographic device the investigation of adults and children indicated 0.15+0.02 and 0.22+0.02 mm, respectively.
(19) Sequential photomicrographs of RBCs passing through interendothelial slits (IES) in walls of venous sinuses in rat spleen were obtained by video recording in vivo microscopic views.
(20) At both stages and with both dextran fractions the following results were obtained: (a) dextran was retained for up to 3 h (the longest interval studied) in the plasma at high concentration; (b) there was a sharp drop in the concentration of tracer between the inner, looser portions of the basement membrane (lamina rara interna) and its outer denser portions (lamina densa), (c) accumulation of dextran was seen in the mesangial areas with time; and (d) no accumulation of dextran was seen in the slits at any time.