Leech vs. Slug

Leechnoun

An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.

Leechnoun

(figuratively) A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.

Leechnoun

A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.

Leechnoun

(archaic) A physician.

Leechnoun

A healer.

Leechnoun

(nautical) The vertical edge of a square sail.

Leechnoun

(nautical) The aft edge of a triangular sail.

Leechverb

(transitive) To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.

Leechverb

(transitive) To drain (resources) without giving back.

Leechverb

To treat, cure or heal.

Leechnoun

See 2d Leach.

Leechnoun

The border or edge at the side of a sail.

Leechnoun

A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.

Leechnoun

Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species.

Leechnoun

A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.

Leechverb

See Leach, v. t.

Leechverb

To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.

Leechverb

To bleed by the use of leeches.

Leechnoun

carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end

Leechnoun

a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

Leechverb

draw blood;

Leech

Leeches are segmented parasitic or predatory worms that comprise the subclass Hirudinea within the phylum Annelida. They are closely related to the oligochaetes, which include the earthworm, and like them have soft, muscular, segmented bodies that can lengthen and contract.

Slugnoun

Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.

Slugnoun

(obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.

Slugnoun

A bullet (projectile).

Slugnoun

A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.

Slugnoun

A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.

Slugnoun

(journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.

Slugnoun

the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.

Slugnoun

A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.

Slugnoun

A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.

Slugnoun

(television editing) A black screen.

Slugnoun

(metal typesetting) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error.

Slugnoun

(regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.

Slugnoun

A hitchhiking commuter.

Slugnoun

(web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.

Slugnoun

(obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.

Slugnoun

A ship that sails slowly.

Slugnoun

A blow, usually with the fist.

Slugverb

To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.

Slugverb

(transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.

Slugverb

To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.

Slugverb

To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.

Slugverb

To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.

Slugverb

(transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.

Slugverb

To make sluggish.

Slugnoun

A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.

Slugnoun

A hindrance; an obstruction.

Slugnoun

Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.

Slugnoun

Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.

Slugnoun

A ship that sails slowly.

Slugnoun

An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.

Slugnoun

A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, - used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.

Slugverb

To move slowly; to lie idle.

Slugverb

To make sluggish.

Slugverb

To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.

Slugverb

To strike heavily.

Slugverb

To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; - said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.

Slugnoun

a projectile that is fired from a gun

Slugnoun

an idle slothful person

Slugnoun

any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell

Slugverb

strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat;

Slugverb

be idle; exist in a changeless situation;

Slug

Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word slug is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a small internal shell, particularly sea slugs and semislugs (this is in contrast to the common name snail, which applies to gastropods that have a coiled shell large enough that they can fully retract its soft parts into the shell).