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Sloop
- noun - a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow
Slope
- noun - an elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of a mountain"
- be at an angle; "The terrain sloped down"
- gradual slant
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal; "a five-degree gradient"
Slops
- noun - (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand; "she carried out the sink slops"
- (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink; "he lived on the thin slops that food kitchens provided"
- cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container; "spill the milk"; "splatter water"
- cheap clothing (as formerly issued to sailors in Britain)
- deep soft mud in water or slush; "they waded through the slop"
- feed pigs
- ladle clumsily; "slop the food onto the plate"
- walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow"
- wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
- writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
Slosh
- verb - make a splashing sound; "water was splashing on the floor"
- spill or splash copiously or clumsily; "slosh paint all over the walls"
- walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow"
Sloth
- noun - a disinclination to work or exert yourself
- any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
- apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Slots
- noun - (computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board; "the PC had three slots for additional memory"
- a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable; "he developed a version of slot grammar"
- a position in a hierarchy or organization; "Bob Dylan occupied the top slot for several weeks"; "she beat some tough competition for the number one slot"
- a slot machine that is used for gambling; "they spend hours and hours just playing the slots"
- a small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail); "he put a quarter in the slot"
- a time assigned on a schedule or agenda; "the TV program has a new time slot"; "an aircraft landing slot"
- assign a time slot; "slot a television program"
- the trail of an animal (especially a deer); "he followed the deer's slot over the soft turf to the edge of the trees"
Slows
- verb - become slow or slower; "Production slowed"
- cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down"
- lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"
Sloyd
- - Lit., skilled mechanical work, such as that required in wood carving; trade work; hence, a system (usually called the sloyd system) of manual training in the practical use of the tools and materials used in the trades, and of instruction in the making and use of the plans and specifications connected with trade work. The sloyd system derives its name from the fact that it was adopted or largely developed from a similar Swedish system, in which wood carving was a chief feature. Its purpose is not only to afford practical skill in some trade, but also to develop the pupils mentally and physically.