Slight

  • 111dip — Slight drop in securities prices after a sustained uptrend. analysts often advise investors to buy on dips, meaning to buy when a price is momentarily weak. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary See: correction, break, crash. Bloomberg Financial… …

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  • 112slighting — slight•ing [[t]ˈslaɪ tɪŋ[/t]] adj. derogatory and disparaging; belittling • Etymology: 1605–15 slight′ing•ly, adv …

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  • 113gracile — slight, small, slender, light weight. The opposite is robust or massive. Used to describe anatomical structures and whole organisms …

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  • 114slightly — slight·ly (slītʹlē) adv. 1. To a small degree or extent; somewhat. 2. Slenderly; delicately: slightly built. * * * …

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  • 115cold comfort — slight or negligible comfort; scarce consolation. [1565 75] * * * …

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  • 116apostaxis — Slight hemorrhage, or bleeding by drops. [G. a trickling down] …

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  • 117microheterogeneity — Slight differences in structure between essentially identical molecules; E.G., in the saccharide portion of a glycoprotein. * * * mi·cro·het·ero·ge·ne·ity .het ə rō jə nē ət ē n, pl ities variation in the chemical structure of a substance (as the …

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  • 118oligogalactia — Slight or scant secretion of milk. [oligo + G. gala, milk] * * * ol·i·go·ga·lac·tia (ol″ĭ go gə lakґshe ə) hypogalactia …

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  • 119SLT — Slight (Medical » Physiology) ** Speech And Language Therapy (Academic & Science » Academic Degrees) ** Slit (Governmental » Military) * Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty (Computing » Networking) * Something Like That (Computing » SMS) * School… …

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  • 120anal folds — slight elevations flanking the anal membrane and derived from the cloacal folds; they form the margin of the anus …

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