Difference between loose and slag
Definitions
verb
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- make loose or looser
- turn loose or free from restraint
- become loose or looser or less tight
adjective
- (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
- (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
- not carefully arranged in a package
- not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- not literal
adverb
- without restraint
Examples
Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses.
The ordinary piki is shaped into loose rolls about 10 inches long and two inches in diameter, but the wedding piki is folded into flat pieces about 8 inches square.
She was in her sixties and wore her thinning gray hair pulled back in a loose bun with all but a few strands secured by bobby pins.
Definitions
verb
- convert into slag
noun
- the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
Examples
The rest of the lads on the squad will have to go away to the other qualifiers, so the slagging has started already, that I am going to be on my holidays while they will be working away.
A second limey slag is used to remove sulphur and to deoxidise the metal in the furnace.
Match your vocal chords to the best singing bird in the world, the Water Slagger.
