Slug vs. Bleed — What's the Difference?

A gastropod mollusk without a shell or with a very small one.

To draw resources from something.

A piece of metal shaped like a coin, used fraudulently.

In printing, to extend beyond the intended border.

A portion of space in printing containing job details.

To ooze or merge colors into each other.

Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word slug is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a small internal shell, particularly sea slugs and semislugs (this is in contrast to the common name snail, which applies to gastropods that have a coiled shell large enough that they can fully retract its soft parts into the shell).

To feel strong emotion, sympathy, or sorrow.

A round bullet larger than buckshot.

To emit or lose blood.

A shot of liquor.

To be wounded, especially in battle.

An amount of liquid, especially liquor, that is swallowed in one gulp; a swig.

To feel sympathetic grief or anguish

A small metal disk for use in a vending or gambling machine, especially one used illegally.

To exude a fluid such as sap.

A lump of metal or glass prepared for further processing.

To pay out money, especially an exorbitant amount.

A strip of type metal, less than type-high and thicker than a lead, used for spacing.

To run together or be diffused, as dyes in wet cloth.

A line of cast type in a single strip of metal.

To undergo or be subject to such a diffusion of color

A compositor's type line of identifying marks or instructions, inserted temporarily in copy.

To show through a layer of paint, as a stain or resin in wood.

(Physics) The British unit of mass that accelerates at the rate of one foot per second per second when acted on by a force of one pound on the surface of the Earth.

To be printed so as to go off the edge or edges of a page after trimming.

Any of various terrestrial gastropod mollusks having a slow-moving slimy elongated body with no shell or with a flat rudimentary shell on or under the skin, usually found in moist habitats.

To take or remove blood from.

A sea slug.

To extract sap or juice from.

The smooth soft larva of certain insects, such as the sawfly.

To draw liquid or gaseous contents from; drain.

A slimy mass of aggregated amoeboid cells that develops into the spore-bearing fruiting body of a cellular slime mold.

To draw off (liquid or gaseous matter) from a container.

(Informal) A sluggard.

To obtain money from, especially by improper means.

A hard heavy blow, as with the fist or a baseball bat.

To drain of all valuable resources

A commuter who slugs.

To cause (an illustration, for example) to bleed.

(Printing) To add slugs to.

To trim (a page, for example) so closely as to mutilate the printed or illustrative matter.

(Informal) To drink rapidly or in large gulps

An instance of bleeding.

To strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat.

Illustrative matter that bleeds.

To wait for or obtain a ride to work by standing at a roadside hoping to be picked up by a driver who needs another passenger to use the HOV lanes of a highway.

A page trimmed so as to bleed.

Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.

The part of the page that is trimmed off.

(obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.

To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.

A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.

(transitive) To let or draw blood from.

A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.

(transitive) To take large amounts of money from.

A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.

(transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).

A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.

To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.

(journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.

(transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.

The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.

(transitive) To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.

A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.

To bleed on; to make bloody.

A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.

To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.

(railroading) An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.

To lose sap, gum, or juice.

(television editing) A black screen.

To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.

(metal typesetting) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.

To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.

(regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.

To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.

A hitchhiking commuter.

To lose money.

(web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.

An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.

(obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.

A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.

A ship that sails slowly.

(printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).

To hit A hard blow, usually with the fist.

(sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.

To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.

The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.

To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.

The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.

To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.

To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.

To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.

To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers.

(transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.

To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence.

To make sluggish.

To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision.

(transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.

To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.

A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.

To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause.

A hindrance; an obstruction.

To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.

Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.

To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap.

Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.

To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund.

A ship that sails slowly.

Lose blood from one's body

An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.

Draw blood;

A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, - used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.

Get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone;

To move slowly; to lie idle.

Be diffused;

To make sluggish.

Drain of liquid or steam;

To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.

To lose blood from the body.

To strike heavily.

To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; - said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.

A projectile that is fired from a gun

An idle slothful person

Any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell

Strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat;

Be idle; exist in a changeless situation;

A hard blow or punch.

A line of type that is cast as a single piece.

No, Slug is a non-printing area, while Bleed is the extension of printed imagery.

No, it can mean the escape of any liquid or metaphorical draining.

It provides space for job details or printing instructions outside the bleed area.

Yes, as in "my heart bleeds for you," denoting sympathy or sorrow.

Fraudulently, to mimic a coin without spending actual money.

Yes, it's a common name for certain gastropods.

Generally, yes. Slugs move slowly using a muscular foot.

Both relate to margins and borders, with Slug being outside the Bleed.

It can denote a heavy blow or sudden effort.

Yes, like when two wet colors merge on paper.

Using quality materials, drying properly, and sometimes using sealants can help.