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Science slams spread around Germany

Researchers in the sciences and humanities are turning to un-traditional
venues, like bars and clubs as a way to present their research

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ADJECTIVE

Of very great extent or quantity; immense:a vast plain full of orchards

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NOUN

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An immense space.

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• And up from the vast a murmuring passed As from a wood of pines.

Origin

late middle english: from Latin vastus 'void, immense'.

slam

v., slammed, slam·ming, slams. v.tr.

1. To shut with force and loud noise: slammed the door.
2. To put, throw, or otherwise forcefully move so as to produce a loud noise: slammed the book on the desk.
3. To hit or strike with great force.
4. Slang. To criticize harshly; censure forcefully.

v.intr.

1. To close or swing into place with force so as to produce a loud noise.
2. To hit something with force; crash: slammed into a truck.

n.

1. 1. A forceful impact that makes a loud noise.
   2. A noise so produced.
2. An act of shutting forcefully and loudly: the slam of a door.
3. Slang. A harsh or devastating criticism.
A poetry slam.

A spoken-word poetry competition.

[Perhaps of Scandinavian origin, akin to Old Norse slambra, to strike at.]

slam² (slăm)
n.

1. The winning of all the tricks or all but one during the play of one hand in bridge and other whist-derived card games.
2. A contract to make a slam.

[Origin unknown.]