(a.) Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.
(a.) Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise.
(1) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
(2) Confronted on that slipperiness in an interview this morning with Bloomberg, Ryan said ending special-interest tax breaks would make up for lost revenue, and that the Tax Policy Center study did not take economic growth effects into account.
(3) In association with the watery amniotic fluid of llamas, the epidermal membrane is slippery, facilitating delivery of the fetus.
(4) That formula goes: “Now is not the time.” This is another of those May constructions that superficially sound definitive, but are really quite slippery.
(5) I would favour it, others wouldn't, but it's a new discussion on another law, not a slippery slide.
(6) At this point, it is clear we are standing on a slippery slope,” he said, adding that fresh lethal attacks could “release violent energies that the two sides have generally managed to keep on a low flame over the past decade”.
(7) It is shown that the size of the slippery context effect depends on the frequency difference between the tones: Small frequency differences (less than a critical bandwidth) produced essentially no slippery effect; much larger differences produced substantial effects.
(8) These led to the formation of rapid slippery and thready pulse.
(9) ); greases up to wealth and power and lets the poor go to hell; he is ruthless, mendacious, slippery and shameless.
(10) Effectively, we are on a slippery slope now, and ignoring this problem won't make it go away.
(11) Analysis of the "slippery site" suggests that a low probability of unpairing of the aminoacyl-tRNA from the 0-frame codon at the ribosomal A site reduces the efficiency of frameshifting more than the reluctance of a given tRNA to have its wobble base mispaired.
(12) Even the ones who you think are American are probably Canadian.” In its profile of Whishaw, the New York Times noted how, as an actor, he rejects the idea of type and has a “slippery way of inhabiting heroes and antiheroes alike, of seducing women and men on screen and on stage with equal ease”.
(13) The crew tried pulling the exhausted survivors aboard, but they were naked and their arms and legs covered in slippery diesel.
(14) Interestingly, honest individuals were initially shielded from taking antisocial decisions – but, with time, even they slid down the slippery, corrupting slope of power.
(15) All that slippery chocolate makes it almost impossible for them to stand erect under the studio lights.
(16) How Spurs craved someone similarly streetwise 7 Tottenham Hotspur Hugo Lloris Wrongfooted by deflections for both Chelsea goals, with the reality he did well to deny Cahill and Fàbregas scant consolation 6 Kyle Walker Eager to push on down the flank but exposed by Hazard’s slippery running and not tight enough to Costa at Chelsea’s second 5 Chelsea old guard triumph but Spurs academy talent point to future | David Hytner Read more Eric Dier Riled by Costa from the moment they clashed five minutes in.
(17) Such as: “Ted Cruz sent shockwaves through the Republican Party today when he announced he would endorse Donald Trump for President, but only if the GOP nominee would publicly support a ban on masturbation , (saying) without ‘swift action … the country was doomed to slide down a slippery slope of debauchery and self-satisfaction’.” Snopes sourced this to a site that mimicked ABC News to lure clicks to an underlying malware site, generating advertising revenue.
(18) Or they have settled for grilling him as a way of getting at the slippery Cameron.
(19) Weidmann sees this as playing politics – unwarranted, dangerous, the slippery slope.
(20) The continued development of smaller deflated balloon profiles with slippery surfaces and better power transmission characteristics will undoubtedly make the vigorous techniques mentioned above less necessary to master in the future.
Sludge
Definition:
(n.) Mud; mire; soft mud; slush.
(n.) Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow.
(n.) See Slime, 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) A clinical investigation was made between workers exposed to dried sewage sludge dust and age matched controls not exposed.
(2) The basic pathways of its transformation were oxidation via formiate to CO2 with its partial reutilization and direct incorporation into the sludge biomass via the primary formation of serine.
(3) Since some genotoxic metals are diffused in the environment and are often sequestered as insoluble precipitates in water sediments and sludges, the introduction of NTA is likely to increase the risk of environmental pollution because of its ability to solubilize and make those metals reactive.
(4) Histological examination suggested that the gall sludge in the pancreatic cyst was caused by the reflux of bile into the pancreatic duct through the papilla of Vater.
(5) Distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in sewage wastes at a municipal sewage treatment plant was studied, showing that the great bulk of PCBs entering such a treatment plant become adsorbed onto the grit chamber solids and the sludge that is passed from the anaerobic digesters.
(6) In contrast to widespread distribution of PCBs in the environment, PCT residues were seldom found in samples from aquatic environments such as water and sludge and waterfowl and fish, and, if found, the levels of PCTs were so low as to be practically negligible.
(7) Gallbladder sludge produced internal echoes without a sonic shadow.
(8) Issues in differential diagnosis are discussed for the following findings: internal gallbladder echoes (calculi vs tumefactive sludge, air, hematobilia, parasitic infestation, cholecystosis, neoplasia, and artifacts), gallbladder wall thickening (acute cholecystitis vs acalculous cholecystitis, artifacts, ascites, hypoalbuminemia, hepatitis, and sclerosing cholangitis), pericholecystic fluid (cholecystitis vs ascites, perforated ulcer, and trauma), bile duct dilatation (biliary obstruction vs sclerosing cholangitis, biliary air, anomalous portal system, biliary atresia, Caroli disease, and cholangiocarcinoma), perinatal and neonatal biliary disease, and sclerosing cholangitis.
(9) However, no countermeasures for this have been developed, nor has any system for the measurement of the H2S held in sewerage water and sludge been established yet.
(10) At present it is not possible to quantify the effects attributed to acid rain only; account must be also be taken of cadmium added to, e.g., soil by use of sewage sludge and other fertilizers.
(11) Activated sludge extracts made from different treatment plants varied in efficacy in evoking maximal viable counts.
(12) Most obvious differences can be found for Cd: While the concentrations of soluble Cd in anaerobically digested sludge only increase at pH values lower than pH 4, the solubility of Cd in precipitation sludge and limed sludges already show rapid increases at pH values lower than 7.
(13) The microbiological composition of broiler and pig sludge did not differ.
(14) The transformation and toxicity of trichlorophenols (TCPs) were studied with a methanogenic enrichment culture derived from sewage sludge.
(15) Counts of all fungi were significantly increased at certain treatments with sludge, except those of Aspergillus niger (at the high dose after 6 weeks), Fusarium (at each of the three doses after 3 weeks and at the high dose after 6 weeks) and Paecilomyces varioti (by the medium and the high doses after 1 week) whose counts were significantly lower than those in untreated soil.
(16) The infectious agent, S. typhi-murium, was isolated not only from several inmates but also from sick cows of the farm belonging to the home, in animal feed, from employees of the local butcher's shop, and finally in sludge from the local sewage plant.
(17) The transitive cerebral distension which is necessary for the neuro-surgeon during interventions is obtained by moderate controlled hyperventilation, deliberate arterial hypotension, application of the anti-sludge therapy for the cerebral microcirculation.
(18) This technique proved to be rapid and reliable for the enumeration of salmonellae in water, waste water, and waste-water sludges.
(19) These elements originated from the wastewater sludge.
(20) Although ultrasound is effective in demonstrating the anatomical features of prolonged gallbladder stasis including sludge, stones, and thickened gallbladder wall, it cannot detect cystic duct patency.