What does slough mean?
Definitions for slough
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Princeton's WordNet
gangrene, sphacelus, sloughnoun
necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
sloughnoun
a hollow filled with mud
sloughnoun
a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
sloughverb
any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
shed, molt, exuviate, moult, sloughverb
cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
"our dog sheds every Spring"
Wiktionary
Sloughnoun
A town in west London, close to Heathrow Airport
Etymology: From sloh, probably from slōhaz.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Sloughnoun
Etymology: slog , Saxon.
The Scots were in a fallow field, whereinto the English could not enter, but over a cross ditch and a slough; in passing whereof many of the English horse were plunged, and some mired. John Hayward.
The ways being foul, twenty to one,
He’s here stuck in a slough, and overthrown. John Milton.A carter had laid his waggon fast in a slough. Roger L'Estrange.
Thy fates open their hands, let thy blood and spirit embrace them; and to inure thyself to what thou art like to be, cast thy humble slough, and appear fresh, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.
When the mind is quicken’d,
The organs, though defunct and dead before,
Break up their drowsy grave, and newly move,
With casted slough and fresh legerity. William Shakespeare.As the snake, roll’d in a flow’ry bank,
With shining checker’d slough, doth sting a child,
That for the beauty thinks it excellent. William Shakespeare, Hen. VI.Oh let not sleep my closing eyes invade
In open plains, or in the secret shade,
When he, renew’d in all the speckl’d pride
Of pompous youth, has cast his slough aside;
And in his Summer liv’ry rolls along,
Erect and brandishing his forky tongue. Dryden.The slough of an English viper, that is, the cuticula, they cast off twice every year, at spring and fall: the separation begins at the head, and is finished in twenty-four hours. Nehemiah Grew.
The body, which we leave behind in this visible world, is as the womb or slough from whence we issue, and are born into the other. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol.
At the next dressing I found a slough come away with the dressings, which was the sordes. Richard Wiseman, on Ulcers.
Wikipedia
Slough
Slough () is a large town in Berkshire, England, 20 miles (32 km) west of central London and 18 miles (29 km) north-east of Reading, in the Thames Valley at the intersection of the M4, M40 and M25 motorways. Slough had a population of 164,000 in 2018. The A4 and the Great Western Main Line pass through the town, which was historically part of neighbouring Buckinghamshire. Crossrail is expected to allow faster journeys to central London. Slough's population is one of the most ethnically diverse in the United Kingdom, attracting people from across the country and the world for labour since the 1920s, which has helped shape it into a major trading centre. In 2017, unemployment stood at 1.4%, one-third the UK average of 4.5%.Slough has the highest concentration of UK HQs of global companies outside London. Slough Trading Estate is the largest industrial estate in single private ownership in Europe with over 17,000 jobs in 400 businesses. Blackberry, McAfee, Burger King, DHL and Lego have head offices in the town.
ChatGPT
slough
A slough is a type of swamp, marsh, or other wetland area, usually characterized by slow-moving or stagnant water. Additionally, in medical terminology, it refers to dead skin or tissue that separates from healthy tissue, often in a wound or ulcer. The term can also be used as a verb meaning to shed or remove, similar to how a snake sloughs off its skin.
Webster Dictionary
Sloughadjective
slow
Sloughnoun
a place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire
Sloughnoun
a wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river
Slough
imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew
Sloughnoun
the skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal
Sloughnoun
the dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification
Sloughverb
to form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly
Sloughverb
to cast off; to discard as refuse
Etymology: [OE. slugh, slouh; cf. MHG. slch the skin of a serpent, G. schlauch a skin, a leather bag or bottle.]
Wikidata
Slough
Slough is a borough and unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Royal Berkshire, England. The town is about 20 miles west of Charing Cross, London. It is bisected by the A4 and the Great Western Main Line. At the 2001 census, the population of Slough was 119,070 and the borough area was the most ethnically diverse local authority area outside London in the United Kingdom. Slough has the highest proportion of religious adherents in England. Historically, the larger part of the present-day Slough area was formerly in Buckinghamshire with a small part of the borough a part of Middlesex. Slough is home to the Slough Trading Estate — an important business centre in South East England — the largest industrial estate in single private ownership in Europe. It is owned and operated by Segro.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Slough
slow, n. a hollow filled with mud: a soft bog or marsh.—adj. Slough′y, full of sloughs: miry. [A.S. slóh, a hollow place; perh. from Ir. sloc—slugaim, to swallow up.]
Slough
sluf, n. the cast-off skin of a serpent: the dead part which separates from a sore.—v.i. to come away as a slough (with off): to be in the state of sloughing.—v.t. to cast off, as a slough.—adj. Slough′y, like, or containing, slough. [Scand.; Sw. dial. slug; cf. Ger. slauch, a skin.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
SLOUGH
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Slough is ranked #18676 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Slough surname appeared 1,472 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Slough.
93.6% or 1,378 total occurrences were White.
3.4% or 51 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1% or 15 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.8% or 13 total occurrences were Black.
0.6% or 10 total occurrences were Asian.
0.3% or 5 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
Anagrams for slough »
ghouls
loughs
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of slough in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of slough in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of slough in a Sentence
Hand washing by rubbing the hands with warm soapy water for at least 20 seconds helps to slough germs off the skin, teach your children to wash their hands as well.
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- انسلخArabic
- svléci kůžiCzech
- hamDanish
- agüiteSpanish
- لاغرPersian
- sivuhaara, masennus, sakata, kesiä, luoda, [[kuollut]] [[iho]], räme, rupi, suo, nahkaFinnish
- escarreFrench
- clàbarScottish Gaelic
- vedlikHungarian
- խորխArmenian
- whakamāunu, kautahangaMāori
- myr, gjørmehullNorwegian
- bagno, wylinkaPolish
- lamaçal, atoleiro, pântanoPortuguese
- сбро́сить, сходи́ть, вы́ползок, коро́ста, сбра́сывать, струп, сойти́Russian
- svlakSerbo-Croatian
- kasta, ömsaSwedish
- шльопатиUkrainian
- sloughYiddish
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