Definitions for slim
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. slender, slight, slim, svelteadjective

   being of delicate or slender build

   "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"

2. slender, slimverb

   small in quantity

   "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus"

3. reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim downverb

   take off weight

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. slimnoun

   A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes

   I only smoke slims.

2. slimnoun

   AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages

3. slimnoun

   Cocaine; white lady.

4. slimverb

   To lose weight in order to achieve slimness

5. slimadjective

   Slender: thin in an attractive way.

   Movie stars are usually slim, attractive, and young.

6. slimadjective

   Of a low degree of probability

7. slimadjective

   tiny, very small.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Slimadverb

   A cant word as it seems, and therefore not to be used. Slender; thin of shape.

   A thin slim-gutted fox made a hard shift to wriggle his body into a henroost; and when he had stuft his guts well, squeezed hard to get out again; but the hole was too little. Roger L'Estrange.

   I was jogg’d on the elbow by a slim young girl of seventeen. Addison.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SLIM

   SLIM is developed at the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) and is a slitless spectroscopy simulator programme created to produce simulated ACS grism and prism images. It is written in Python programming language and covers all spectral elements available in the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) installed on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). It was created to generate data that is both geometrically and photometrically realistic and is appropriate to the slitless spectroscopic modes of the ACS.

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1. slim

   Slim generally refers to something or someone that is gracefully thin, slender or narrow in size or width. It could also refer to a small amount or likelihood. The term can be used to describe physical appearance, probabilities, or objects, among others.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Slim

   worthless; bad

2. Slim

   weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument

3. Slim

   of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height or length; slender; as, a slim person; a slim tree

4. Etymology: [Formerly, bad, worthless, weak, slight, awry, fr. D. slim; akin to G. schlimm, MHG. slimp oblique, awry; of uncertain origin. The meaning of the English word seems to have been influenced by slender.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SLIM

   SLIM is developed at the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility and is a slitless spectroscopy simulator programme created to produce simulated ACS grism and prism images. It is written in Python programming language and covers all spectral elements available in the Advanced Camera for Surveys installed on board the Hubble Space Telescope. It was created to generate data that is both geometrically and photometrically realistic and is appropriate to the slitless spectroscopic modes of the ACS.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Slim

   slim, adj. (comp. Slim′mer, superl. Slim′mest) very thin, weak, slender: slight, trivial, unsubstantial: delicate: crafty.—adv. Slim′ly.—adj. Slim′mish, somewhat slim.—n. Slim′ness.—adj. Slim′sy (U.S.), frail, flimsy. [Old Low Ger. slim, crafty; Dan. slem, worthless, Ger. schlimm, bad.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. slim

   A small, derivative change (e.g., to code).

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1. slim

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2. SLIM

   What does SLIM stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the SLIM acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SLIM

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Slim is ranked #27845 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Slim surname appeared 862 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Slim.
   
   61.4% or 530 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   26.4% or 228 total occurrences were White.
   6.6% or 57 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   3.2% or 28 total occurrences were Black.
   1.5% or 13 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.7% or 6 total occurrences were Asian.

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British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'slim' in Adjectives Frequency: #869

Anagrams for slim »

1. SMIL

2. mils

How to pronounce slim?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say slim in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of slim in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of slim in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of slim in a Sentence

1. Edith Ann:

   Frankly, I think the chances of having a happy childhood while you're still a kid going through it are pretty slim.

2. Designer Scervino:

   We see ... slim waistlines, we see a lot of femininity.

3. Roger Pilon:

   Today, of course, the redistributive powers of Congress are everywhere -- except in the Constitution. The result is the feeding frenzy that is modern Washington, the Hobbesian war of all against all as each tries to get his share and more of the common pot the tax system fills. ... It is unseemly and wrong. More than that, it is unconstitutional, whatever the slim and cowed majority on the New Deal Court may have said.

4. David Dai:

   With stocks having fallen so much, much of the risk has been priced in and another free-fall is quite unlikely, although the chance of a sustainable rebound is slim.

5. Zhou Lin:

   With a slim chance of making a profit in this market, money is not following in.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=slim
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Slim
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=slim
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slim
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=slim
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=slim
9. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Slim
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html