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sludge 
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| 1. | mud, mire, or ooze; slush. |
| 2. | a deposit of ooze at the bottom of a body of water. |
| 3. | any of various more or less mudlike deposits or mixtures. |
| 4. | the sediment in a steam boiler or water tank. |
| 5. | broken ice, as on the sea. |
| 6. | a mixture of some finely powdered substance and water. |
| 7. | sediment deposited during the treatment of sewage. |
| 8. | Also called activated sludge. Bacteriology. sewage sediment that contains a heavy growth of microorganisms, resulting from vigorous aeration. |
| 9. | a fine, mudlike powder produced by a mining drill. |
[Origin: 1640–50; var. of dial. slutch, slitch, ME slich slime, wet mud (cf. its deriv. slucched muddy); appar. of expressive orig.]
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Sludge
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n.
intr.v. sludged, sludg·ing, sludg·es To agglutinate or aggregate into a semisolid mass; form a sludge. Used of blood cells. [Perhaps alteration of dialectal slutch, mire.] sludg'y adj. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
sludge
1649, possibly from M.E. slutch "mud, mire," or a variant of slush.
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| sludge | |
noun | |
| 1. | the precipitate produced by sewage treatment |
| 2. | any thick, viscous matter |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
sludge [sladʒ] noun
soft, slimy mud, grease or other matter which settles at the bottom of a liquid
Example: The river-bed is covered with thick sludge.
Example: The river-bed is covered with thick sludge.
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
Main Entry: 1sludge
Pronunciation: 'sl&j
Function: noun
: a semisolid precipitated mass or deposit
| Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
Main Entry: 2sludge
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Forms: sludged; sludg·ing
: to form sludge
| Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
Sludge
Sludge\, n. Anything resembling mud or slush; as: (a) A muddy or slimy deposit from sweage. (b) Mud from a drill hole in boring. (c) Muddy sediment in a steam boiler. (d) Settling of cottonseed oil, used in making soap, etc. (e) A residuum of crude paraffin-oil distillation.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Sludge
Sludge\, n. [CF. Slush.]1. Mud; mire; soft mud; slush. --Mortimer. Tennyson. 2. Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow. --Kane. 3. (Mining) See Slime, 4. Sludge hole, the hand-hole, or manhole, in a steam boiler, by means of which sediment can be removed.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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