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ooze

1  [ooz] verb, oozed, ooz⋅ing, noun
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–verb (used without object)
1. (of moisture, liquid, etc.) to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings.
2. to move or pass slowly or gradually, as if through a small opening or passage: The crowd oozed toward the entrance.
3. (of a substance) to exude moisture.
4. (of something abstract, as information or courage) to appear or disappear slowly or imperceptibly (often fol. by out or away): His cockiness oozed away during my rebuttal speech.
5. to display some characteristic or quality: to ooze with piety.
–verb (used with object)
6. to make by oozing.
7. to exude (moisture, air, etc.) slowly.
8. to display or dispense freely and conspicuously: He can ooze charm when it serves his interest.
–noun
9. the act of oozing.
10. something that oozes.
11. an infusion of oak bark, sumac, etc., used in tanning.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME wos(e) (n.), wosen (v.), OE wōs juice, moisture

Synonyms:
10. slime, mud, muck, sludge.

ooze

2  [ooz]
–noun
1. Geology. a calcareous or siliceous mud composed chiefly of the shells of one-celled organisms, covering parts of the ocean bottom.
2. soft mud, or slime.
3. a marsh or bog.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME wose, OE wāse mud
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ooze 1   (ōōz)   
v.   oozed, ooz·ing, ooz·es

v.   intr.
  1. To flow or leak out slowly, as through small openings.
  2. To disappear or ebb slowly: His courage oozed away.
  3. To progress slowly but steadily: "Over grass bleached colorless by strong outback sun, the herd oozes forward" (Geraldine Brooks).
  4. To exude moisture.
  5. To emit a particular essence or quality: The house oozed with charm.
v.   tr.
  1. To give off; exude.
  2. To emit or radiate in abundance: She oozes confidence.
n.  
  1. The act of oozing.
  2. Something that oozes.
  3. An infusion of vegetable matter, as from oak bark, used in tanning.

[Middle English wosen, from wose, juice, from Old English wōs.]
ooze 2   (ōōz)   
n.  
  1. Soft mud or slime.
  2. A layer of mudlike sediment on the floor of oceans and lakes, composed chiefly of remains of microscopic sea animals.
  3. Muddy ground.

[Middle English wose, from Old English wāse.]
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Ooze

Ooze\, n. (Oceanography) A soft deposit covering large areas of the ocean bottom, composed largely or mainly of the shells or other hard parts of minute organisms, as Foraminifera, Radiolaria, and diatoms. The radiolarian ooze occurring in many places in very deep water is composed mainly of the siliceous skeletons of radiolarians, calcareous matter being dissolved by the lage percentage of carbon dioxide in the water at these depths.

Ooze

Ooze\, n. [OE. wose, AS. wase dirt, mire, mud, akin to w?s juice, ooze, Icel. v[=a]s wetness, OHG. waso turf, sod, G. wasen.]

1. Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure. "My son i' the ooze is bedded." --Shak.

2. Soft flow; spring. --Prior.

3. The liquor of a tan vat.

Ooze

Ooze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Oozed; p. pr. & vb. n. Oozing.] [Prov. Eng. weeze, wooz. See Ooze, n.]

1. To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.

The latent rill, scare oozing through the grass. --Thomson.

2. Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.

Ooze

Ooze\, v. t. To cause to ooze. --Alex. Smith.
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Language Translation for : ooze
Spanish: manar, rezumar,
German: sickern,
Japanese: にじみ出る
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ooze  (v.)
1387, verbal derivative of O.E. noun wos "juice, sap," from P.Gmc. *wosan (cf. M.L.G. wose "scum"), from same source as ooze (n.) (q.v.). Modern spelling from late 1500s. The O.E. verb was wesan.

ooze  (n.)
"soft mud," O.E. wase "soft mud, mire," from P.Gmc. *waison (cf. O.S. waso "wet ground, mire," O.N. veisa "pond of stagnant water"), from PIE *weis- "to flow" (cf. L. virus "slime, poison," and possibly also viscum "birdlime, mistletoe"). Modern spelling is mid-1500s.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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OOZE
Object oriented extension of Z. "Object Orientation in Z", S. Stepney et al eds, Springer 1992.

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ooze

pelagic (deep-sea) sediment of which at least 30 percent is composed of the skeletal remains of microscopic floating organisms. Oozes are basically deposits of soft mud on the ocean floor. They form on areas of the seafloor distant enough from land so that the slow but steady deposition of dead microorganisms from overlying waters is not obscured by sediments washed from the land. The oozes are subdivided first into calcareous oozes (containing skeletons made of calcium carbonate) and siliceous oozes (containing skeletons made of silica) and then are divided again according to the predominant skeleton type. Thus, the calcareous oozes include globigerina ooze, containing the shells of planktonic foraminifera, and pteropod ooze, made up chiefly of the shells of pelagic mollusks. The siliceous oozes include radiolarian ooze, comprising essentially brown clay with more than 30 percent of the skeletons of warm-water protozoa, and diatom ooze, containing the frustules (tiny shells) of diatoms. The siliceous oozes exist only where the rate of deposition of diatoms or radiolarians is greater than the rate at which their silica content is dissolved in the deep waters; thus the diatom oozes are confined to belts in the North Pacific and Antarctic, and the radiolarian oozes are found only under the eastern part of the North Pacific. Globigerina ooze is the most widespread of the oozes and occurs in both the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Pteropod ooze is found only in the mid-Atlantic.

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