Slug vs. Bleed

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).

Bleedverb

To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.

Bleedverb

(transitive) To let or draw blood from.

Bleedverb

(transitive) To take large amounts of money from.

Bleedverb

(transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).

Bleedverb

To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.

Bleedverb

(transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing fluids.

Bleedverb

To bleed on; to make bloody.

Bleedverb

To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.

Bleedverb

To lose sap, gum, or juice.

Bleedverb

To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.

Bleedverb

To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.

Bleednoun

An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.

Bleednoun

(printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).

Bleednoun

(sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.

Bleedverb

To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.

Bleedverb

To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers.

Bleedverb

To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence.

Bleedverb

To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision.

Bleedverb

To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.

Bleedverb

To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause.

Bleedverb

To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.

Bleedverb

To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap.

Bleedverb

To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund.

Bleedverb

lose blood from one's body

Bleedverb

draw blood;

Bleedverb

get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone;

Bleedverb

be diffused;

Bleedverb

drain of liquid or steam;