Slim

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slim \Slim\ (sl[i^]m), a. [Compar. {Slimmer}; superl.
     {Slimmest}.] [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.]
     1. Worthless; bad. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]


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     2. Weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument.
        "That was a slim excuse." --Barrow.
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     3. Of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height
        or length; slender; as, a slim person; a slim tree.
        --Grose.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  slim
       adj 1: 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" [syn: {slender}, {slight}]
       2: small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of
          winning"; "a small surplus" [syn: {slender}]
       v : take off weight [syn: {reduce}, {melt off}, {lose weight}, {slenderize},
            {thin}, {slim down}] [ant: {gain}]
       [also: {slimmest}, {slimmer}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  138 Moby Thesaurus words for "slim":
     Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, adroit, airy, ascetic, attenuate,
     attenuated, austere, barebones, bean pole, beanstalk, boyish,
     broomstick, canny, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, clothes pole,
     corpse, cunning, delicate, dexterous, diaphanous, diet, diluted,
     dwarfed, dwarfish, ethereal, exiguous, fat, fine, fine-drawn,
     finespun, flimsy, frail, frugal, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile,
     impoverished, infrequent, ingenious, insubstantial, jejune, lacy,
     lanky, lean, light, limited, lissome, lithe, lithesome,
     lose weight, meager, mean, miserly, misty, narrow, negligible,
     niggardly, off, outside, paltry, papery, parsimonious, piddling,
     poor, puny, rare, rarefied, rattlebones, reduce, reedy, scant,
     scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy,
     seldom met with, seldom seen, shadow, skeleton, skimp, skimping,
     skimpy, slender, slenderish, slenderize, slight, slight-made,
     slimmish, slinky, sly, small, spare, sparing, sparse, spindlelegs,
     spindleshanks, spotty, sprinkled, stack of bones, starvation,
     stilt, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, subtle,
     svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun,
     thinnish, threadlike, tight, twiggy, unnourishing, unnutritious,
     vague, walking skeleton, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down,
     watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

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

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  SLIM
       
          A VLSI language for translating DFA's into circuits.
          J.L. Hennessy, "SLIM: A Simulation and Implementation Language
          for VLSI Microcode", Lambda, Apr 1981, pp.20-28.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  slim
       
           A small, derivative change (e.g. to code).
       
          (2003-05-13)