(superl.) Of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime.
Example Sentences:
(1) A slimy basket case Climate change and human globalisation assist most travelling species but many journeys are still mysterious.
(2) Only Candida albicans and the corresponding slimy coat were found on smooth areas of tube.
(3) Ifind it hard to get excited about slimy, translucent, near‑flavourless egg whites, but I can't bear to throw them away.
(4) It’s just one in a long line of cowardly and slimy moves by Ryan, who is really just Trump in a more aesthetically appealing wrapper.
(5) Both symbiotic and free-living (non-associative) nitrogen fixation analyses (by acetylene reduction) revealed that the non-slimy, small colonies were significantly more effective than slimy, large colonies.
(6) At surgery, the mass was noted not to penetrate the superficial surface of the quadriceps tendon and was full of slimy fluid.
(7) It is difficult to observe, without the option of yelling and swearing, how disingenuous this is, how slimy and mawkish for a government happy to live with the idea of people living in squalor, in fuel poverty, going hungry, suddenly to find itself unable to bear the idea of a child in a smoky car.
(8) This is a decision which will force talented young athletes to work another year for free while making huge amounts of money for everyone else at their unpaid workplace, to pass this off as somehow the "right thing to do" for the game or, even worse, is just slimy.
(9) No 'slimy' state of this fungus was observed and dimorphism was not confirmed.
(10) A slimy material, responsible for increased viscosity of these cultures, was digested by dextranase.
(11) Disease signs included acute death, inability to fly, lameness, inappetence, emaciation, polyuria, and the production of slimy, green droppings.
(12) With proteins and other polymers released from lysed bacteria, this slimy material may contribute directly to increased viscosity and foam formation.
(13) The secondary forms of the agglutinates were similar to those of Enterobacteriaceae, the typical primary form of the agglutination into slimy networks and spheres was not observed upon the restoration of agglutinability.
(14) It is a real education for people as well to see seaweed as a food and not as the slimy green, black stuff that you find stinking and rotting on the beach,” he adds.
(15) Several bacteria which appear to be different and are presumed to be different species are associated in the slimy mass of the "acid streamers."
(16) Even the briefest hint of a sniff of a rumour that the studio is going the “teen choice” route by plumping for looks over substance will see the movie sink faster than Luke’s X-wing in Yoda’s slimy Dagobah swamp, which is why rumoured candidates such as Glee’s Blake Jenner should be avoided like the Candorian plague .
(17) After Tony and his shiny head did the dirty with Tracy Barlow, the goddess of pure evil, Liz went straight into a rebound fling with Dan, a man so slimy he glistens.
(18) Buck Pal receptions are all 1970s vol-au-vents (complete with a slimy surprise lurking within), or squeezy cheese on a Ritz cracker.
(19) Snails, one of France's signature dishes, could be off the menu if the country fails to stem an invasion by a slimy worm from south-east Asia, scientists have said.
(20) They pull off an armed robbery and make it to Florida where they meet James Franco's slimy gangster, Alien, described by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the most "repulsive cinematic creations in recent memory".
Viscous
Definition:
(a.) Adhesive or sticky, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscid; glutinous; clammy; tenacious; as, a viscous juice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of autokeratoplasty have been better if the Healon viscous-elastic bioprotector has been employed.
(2) At surgery, upon incision of the paravertebral muscle fascia, viscous pale fluid was encountered emanating from a foramen in the thoracic lamina.
(3) A model system of exfoliated normal human cervicovaginal squamous cells, exfoliated rodent tumor cells, and acellular, viscous, mucuslike material was used to investigate cell deposition on smear preparations made with three different instruments: plastic spatulas, wooden spatulas, and brush-tipped collectors.
(4) This large increase in power output can be accommodated without an increase in metabolic rate only if internal viscous resistances to flagellar bending are relatively low.
(5) The observation that the apparent activation energy for hydraulic conductivity is less than that for water diffusion across the red cell membrane is characteristic of viscous flow and suggests that the flow of water across the membranes of these red cells under an osmotic pressure gradient is a viscous process.
(6) The nodule typically accumulates a viscous yellow fluid.
(7) Oropharyngeal topical anesthesia with viscous lidocaine (25 ml of 2% as a "mouthwash and gargle" 10 min before laryngoscopy) attenuated the pressor but not heart rate (HR) response during laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation.
(8) Here we demonstrate that injection of HCl through solutions of pig gastric mucin produces viscous fingering patterns dependent on pH, mucin concentration and acid flow rate.
(9) The viscous layer of the cornea was seen by TEM in one case of PPD.
(10) By means of an oscillating capillary rheometer and densimeter, the viscous and elastic parts of the complex viscosity of whole blood and plasma were measured from the ipsilateral internal jugular vein in 17 patients with unilateral occlusive carotid lesions during different stages of carotid endarterectomy.
(11) This type of ventilation brought about changes in viscous properties, measured during creep and oscillation of the mucus, which would be expected to reduce mucus clearance in vivo.
(12) The stability and accuracy of all the methods depend on the amount of viscous pressure loss dictated by wall friction.
(13) If you get a group of people together who wouldn't dream of drinking three quarters of a pint of viscous fatty liquid, and you got them to drink a mug of Horlicks, it would actually disrupt their sleep.
(14) This protein friction, with such viscous-like characteristics, may well play a role as a velocity-limiting factor in the normal ATP-induced sliding movement of motile proteins.
(15) At a hydrophobic surface, molecules move apart and local water becomes strongly bonded, inert, and viscous and accumulates large cations, univalent anions, and compatible solutes.
(16) The transport equation describing the flow of solute across a membrane has been modified on the basis of theoretical studies calculating the drag of a sphere moving in a viscous liquid undergoing Poiseuille flow inside a cylinder.
(17) Remnants of the highly viscous and sticky contrast medium that remain attached to the vascular wall complicate the technical procedure of anastomosing.
(18) Therefore, in this study, we measured the ability of viscous agents to maintain the deepness of the anterior chamber in vitro and discussed the correlations between this ability and the viscosity or elasticity of the various viscous agents.
(19) In 21 experiments, 5 for each of 3 viscoelastic fluids with varying characteristics and 6 for a viscous fluid, aerosol deposition was significantly enhanced in every experiment, irrespective of the type of fluid added.
(20) The results confirm that the intracervical administration of PGE2 in a viscous medium can induce ripening of the cervix in those patients at term displaying unfavorable cervical state.