What's the difference between slop and splatter?

Slop


Definition:

  • (n.) Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
  • (n.) Mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural.
  • (n.) Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc.
  • (v. t.) To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.
  • (v. t.) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.
  • (v. i.) To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over.
  • (v. i.) Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock.
  • (v. i.) A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural.
  • (v. i.) Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One trader wrote, on 10 March 2006: "I don't know how we dispose of the slops and I don't imply we would dump them, but for sure, there must be some way to pay someone to take them."
  • (2) The crude slop gave better results than the diluted or centrifuged liquors.
  • (3) The company has said the "slops" were dumped by a licensed local independent contractor, Compagnie Tommy, which was appointed in good faith.
  • (4) Their new album continues the generic cross-breeding that Funkadelic practised – on Standing on the Verge of Getting It On, Cosmic Slop, etc – from the black side of the racial border.
  • (5) Towers of pre-buttered bread, greasy counters and tubs of slop were dispiritingly common: Pret was clean, sleek and sensibly designed.
  • (6) Water slops from the pool on to the parquet where, in a few days, a baby will hopefully be sleeping in a moses basket.
  • (7) So if there is a heatwave this summer, it would be best for us, too, to slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen and slap on a hat.
  • (8) A perfectionist, this old-school hotelier strives to make even the most uncivilised environment palatable: his delicate approach to serving prison slop brings one of the film's funniest moments.
  • (9) This was especially true for the slop displacement test, which revealed large amounts of displacement after a single moderate torsional load, whereas in the underreamed groups significantly less loosening was found.
  • (10) One might agree that the mechanically recovered slop that is the main ingredient of these balls should not be called “meat”.
  • (11) You could water window boxes with dish-slop, though, and that was another tip: take a shower by standing under Selfridges' petunias, which were given a pretty upmarket daily dousing in water largely free from bits of crud and washing-up-liquid slick.
  • (12) They repeated denials that the slops could have caused death or serious injury, and were highly toxic.
  • (13) The hull rolled high and slid off to the right, dumping Claude Ledet into the terrible slop, and as he went under, his mind came back to a splintered version of the present, and he knew at once that he had to get back to the surface because the boy, he felt sure, would jump after him, and a news account he'd read thirty years before of a grandfather and grandson gone fishing and not coming back in at the appointed time bloomed into his head, because when the sheriff's men dragged the canal the next morning the hooks brought up together the grandfather and a four-year-old boy wrapped tightly in his arms.
  • (14) You know exactly what's going to happen on the long and grisly way out: the hoists, nappies, hernia, commodes, aphasia, swallowing problems and being spoon-fed slop.
  • (15) ), just bubblegum pap, and televised slop, for the masses.
  • (16) The good news is that a combination of sunscreen and covering up can reduce melanoma rates, as shown by Australian figures from their slip, slop, slap campaign .
  • (17) Unlike the accelerated Britpunk of much west-coast hardcore, the Peppers’ influences are mainly American – the Germs, Ohio Players, Jimi Hendrix, P-Funk, Dead Kennedys, Captain Beefheart, etc – yet the most audible ingredient of their cosmic slop is the Gang of Four’s judderfunk.
  • (18) Total cerebral blood flow was caliculated by bicompartmental analysis and compared to the two minutes initial slop index.
  • (19) Rotational micromotion, permanent rotational displacement, and slop displacement between bone and implant were measured with linearly variable differential transducers under torsional loading.
  • (20) Graphs of minute ventilation (V) versus mean CO2 for families of oscillation sizes (0.5%, 1% and 2%) showed that the ventilatory sensitivity (slop) was least for the 2% oscillations and greatest for the 0.5% oscillations.

Splatter


Definition:

  • (v. i. & t.) To spatter; to splash.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gucci showed jeans, too, splattered and distressed; at Prada they were tailored with visible white stitching.
  • (2) While my pink, freckled body is blank and pictureless, my father's is an ink-splattered historical document.
  • (3) Decreasing r&d time has the same effect on TCs generated from both noise and tonal stimuli, even when it only measurably increases the acoustic splatter of the latter.
  • (4) In lurid images of blood-splattered dollars fluttering down over warlords in conflict zones, accompanied by a menacing soundtrack worthy of a horror classic, the film seeks to distill in punchy form the central message of the book: that Hillary and Bill Clinton, since leaving the White House famously “dead broke” in 2001, have amassed a vast fortune of more than $200m by blurring the lines between public office, their philanthropic foundation, lucrative speaker fees and friendships with dubious characters around the world.
  • (5) Sit the steamer on the surface of your milk, slightly off centre so the milk starts to flow around it in a circular motion, rather than splattering uncontrollably.
  • (6) 92% of obligate heterozygotes had a mud-splattered appearance of the fundus with hyperpigmented streaks and in 74% this was associated with marked iris translucency.
  • (7) The cartoon shows a menacing looking Netanyahu wielding a blood-splattered trowel, bricking screaming Palestinians into the wall's structure.
  • (8) The very steep stimulus slopes required to produce an offset CAP are likely to generate much more acoustic splatter than the more gradual slopes required to produce an onset CAP, and this may be related to the different shapes of the onset and offset simultaneous MTCs.
  • (9) J Crew and studio chic J Crew pays homage to painters with its splattered trousers.
  • (10) "I remember kissing his head, his face held between two blocks, completely splattered in dry blood.
  • (11) The house where his blood and brains were splattered yesterday.
  • (12) I see a cascade of shit pirouetting from your penthouse office, caking each layer of management, splattering all in between.
  • (13) Clutching Squire-customised Jackson Pollock-style paint-splattered guitars, they launched into Elephant Stone , an instantly infectious collision of melody and house-influenced rhythms delivered in a psychedelic haze.
  • (14) Nor has the RAF (with apologies to the Royal Air Force) featured in the Mail Online's sidebar of shame whereas BRF has already become almost as much of a regular feature there as drool-splattered photos of 14-year-old girls looking "grown up for their years".
  • (15) With an old North Face down jacket, MacPac rucksack and mud-splattered Berghaus boots – the kit that saw him through the mountains of central Afghanistan in midwinter – he looks more ­uppercrust eco-warrior than county Tory.
  • (16) The latter, splattered with hammers and sickles, runs close to the shores of the Saronic Gulf.
  • (17) Freud is pictured in his laceless, paint-splattered boots.
  • (18) Junior doctors are not looking for a last-minute “concession” splattered across the papers.
  • (19) Movie monsters have been steadily slinking back to the B-list depths from whence they came, hence the popularity of CGI splatter such as Sharknado , where we can be sure no real animals were harmed, because it’s clear none were used.
  • (20) The floor is splattered with globules and rivulets of dried paint; you could almost be standing on an enormous Jackson Pollock.