sludge
(noun) the precipitate produced by sewage treatment
sludge, slime, goo, goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze
(noun) any thick, viscous matter
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sludge (countable and uncountable, plural sludges)
Solids separated from suspension in a liquid.
A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler.
A mass of small pieces of ice on the surface of a body of water.
(uncountable, music) sludge metal
• (separated solids): mud, mire, ooze, slush
sludge (third-person singular simple present sludges, present participle sludging, simple past and past participle sludged)
(intransitive, informal) To slump or slouch.
(intransitive) To slop or drip slowly.
SLUDGE
(emergency medicine, mnemonic) An acronym used to help remember the common symptoms of certain affections of a cholinergic toxidrome: "salivation, lacrimation, urination, defecation, gastrointestinal upset, emesis".
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Source: Wiktionary
Sludge, n. Etym: [CF. Slush.]
1. Mud; mire; soft mud; slush. Mortimer. Tennyson.
2. Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow. Kane.
3. (Mining)
Definition: See Slime, 4. Sludge hole, the hand-hole, or manhole, in a steam boiler, by means of which sediment can be removed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
