slim

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

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.]
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument.
      "That was a slim excuse." --Barrow.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height
      or length; slender; as, a slim person; a slim tree.
      --Grose.
      [1913 Webster]
    

slim
 n.

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

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}]
    

slim

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

   (2003-05-13)
    

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