Slime may refer to:
Biology
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Slime mold, a broad term often referring to roughly six groups of Eukaryotes
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Biofilm
A biofilm comprises any syntrophic consortium of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other and often also to a surface. These adherent cells become embedded within a slimy extracellular matrix that is composed of extracellular ...
, an aggregate of microorganisms in which cells adhere to each other and/or to a surface
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Slimy (fish)
Leiognathidae, the ponyfishes, slipmouths or slimys / slimies, are a small family of fishes in the order Perciformes. They inhabit marine and brackish waters in the Indian and West Pacific Oceans. They can be used in the preparation of ''bagoong' ...
, also known as the ponyfish
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Snail slime
Snail slime (''mucopolysaccharide'') is a kind of mucus (an external bodily secretion) produced by snails, which are gastropod mollusks. Land snails and slugs both produce mucus, as does every other kind of gastropod, from marine, freshwater, and ...
, the mucus used by gastropods for locomotion
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Subsurface Lithoautotrophic Microbial Ecosystem (SLiME), a biotope occupied by 'slime'.
Chemistry
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Gunge
Gunge as it is known in the United Kingdom, or slime as it is known in the United States and most English-speaking areas of the world, is a thick, gooey, yet runny substance with a consistency somewhere between that of paint and custard. It has ...
(UK) or Slime (US), a thick, gooey, yet runny substance used in children's TV programmes.
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Flubber (material)
Flubber (named from the film ''The Absent-Minded Professor''), Glorp, Glurch, or Slime is a rubbery polymer formed by cross-linking of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) with a borate compound. Slime can be made by combining polyvinyl-acetate-based adhesive ...
, a rubbery polymer commonly called slime.
* Slimes, another name for
tailings
In mining, tailings are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction (gangue) of an ore. Tailings are different to overburden, which is the waste rock or other material that overlie ...
, a waste material left after the process of separation of ores
Computing
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SLIME
Slime may refer to:
Biology
* Slime mold, a broad term often referring to roughly six groups of Eukaryotes
* Biofilm, an aggregate of microorganisms in which cells adhere to each other and/or to a surface
* Slimy (fish), also known as the pony ...
, the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs, an Emacs mode for developing Common Lisp applications
Geography
* Slime, a village, population 270, near
Omiš
Omiš (, Latin and it, Almissa) is a town and port in the Dalmatia region of Croatia, and is a municipality in the Split-Dalmatia County. The town is situated approximately south-east of Croatia's second largest city, Split. Its location is wh ...
, Croatia
Fiction
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"Slime" (short story) (Russian: тина), a short story by Anton Chekhov
* "Slime", a novelette by
Joseph Payne Brennan
Joseph Payne Brennan (December 20, 1918 – January 28, 1990) was an American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a poet. Of Irish ancestry, he was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and he lived most of his life in New Haven, Connect ...
. Originally published in the March 1953 issue of ''Weird Tales''
* Slimey the Worm, the pet of
Oscar the Grouch
Oscar the Grouch is a Muppet character created by Jim Henson and Jon Stone for the PBS/HBO children's television program ''Sesame Street''. He has a green body, no visible nose, and lives in a trash can. Oscar's favorite thing is trash, as eviden ...
on ''Sesame Street''
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Slime (''Dragon Quest''), the mascot of the ''Dragon Quest'' console role-playing game franchise
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Slimer
Slimer, originally referred to as "Onionhead" and sometimes "the Mean Green Ghost", is a character from the Ghostbusters (franchise), ''Ghostbusters'' franchise. He appears in the films ''Ghostbusters'' (1984), ''Ghostbusters II'' (1989), and the ...
, a green ghost made of slime from the film ''Ghostbusters''
* Slime, a hostile mob from ''
Minecraft
''Minecraft'' is a sandbox game developed by Mojang Studios. The game was created by Markus "Notch" Persson in the Java programming language. Following several early private testing versions, it was first made public in May 2009 before being ...
'' that splits into multiple smaller slimes when killed.
Brands
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Slime (toy), a viscous, oozing green material made primarily from guar gum and sold with a plastic trash can
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Slime (brand), a brand of tire care products
Music
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Slime (band)
Slime is an extreme leftwing German punk rock band founded in Hamburg in 1979. They developed upon the straightforward style of late 70's British punk to create complex song structures with layered and cryptic texts, becoming one of the defin ...
, a German punk rock band, founded in 1979 and disbanded in 1994
Other uses
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''Slime'' (video game), a 1982 video game for Atari 8-bit family
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''Slime'' (series), a video game series unrelated to the video game from 1982
See also
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Green slime (disambiguation) Green slime may refer to:
* Intelligence Corps, of the British Army
* ''The Green Slime'' a 1968 science-fiction film directed by Kinji Fukasaku
* "Green Slime" (song), a song by the Fuzztones
* "Green Slime" (song), a song by John Carter
* Green ...
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Pink slime
Pink slime (also known as lean finely textured beef or LFTB, finely textured beef, or boneless lean beef trimmings or BLBT) is a meat by-product used as a food additive to ground beef and beef-based processed meats, as a filler, or to red ...
, meat trimmings separated from fat by a centrifuge
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Blob (disambiguation)
Blob may refer to:
Science Computing
* Binary blob, in open source software, a non-free object file loaded into the kernel
* Binary large object (BLOB), in computer database systems
* A storage mechanism in the cloud computing platform M ...
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Oobleck (disambiguation)
Oobleck may refer to:
* Oobleck (non-Newtonian fluid), made of cornstarch and water
Arts and entertainment
* Oobleck, a fictional green substance in the Dr. Seuss book '' Bartholomew and the Oobleck''
* Theater Oobleck, a theater company based i ...
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Slime ball (disambiguation)
A slime ball or slimeball may be:
* the medium of transmission for a lancet fluke
* Slimeballs, a book series
* a material obtained in ''Minecraft
''Minecraft'' is a sandbox game developed by Mojang Studios. The game was created by Markus ...
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