The difference between Recrement and Slag

When used as nouns, recrement means waste matter or dross, whereas slag means waste material from a coal mine.


Slag is also verb with the meaning: to produce slag.

check bellow for the other definitions of Recrement and Slag

  1. Recrement as a noun:

    waste matter or dross

  2. Recrement as a noun (biology):

    A bodily secretion that is reabsorbed into the blood

  1. Slag as a noun:

    Waste material from a coal mine.

  2. Slag as a noun:

    Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.

  3. Slag as a noun:

    Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.

  4. Slag as a noun:

    Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.

  5. Slag as a noun:

    Scoria associated with a volcano.

  6. Slag as a noun (UK, pejorative, dated):

    A coward.

  7. Slag as a noun (UK, chiefly, Cockney, pejorative):

    A contemptible person, a scumbag.

  8. Slag as a noun (UK, pejorative):

    A prostitute.

  9. Slag as a noun (UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, slang, pejorative):

    A woman (sometimes a man) who has loose morals relating to sex; a slut.

  1. Slag as a verb (transitive):

    To produce slag.

  2. Slag as a verb (intransitive):

    To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.

  3. Slag as a verb (transitive, sometimes with "off"):

    To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).

  4. Slag as a verb (intransitive, Australia, slang):

    To spit.

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