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- Dictionarysludge/slʌdʒ/
noun
- 1. thick, soft, wet mud or a similar viscous mixture of liquid and solid components, especially the product of an industrial or refining process: "the dumping of sewage sludge"
- 2. an unattractive muddy shade of brown or green: "a sludge green"
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1. : mud, mire. especially : a muddy deposit (as on a riverbed) : ooze. 2. : a muddy or slushy mass, deposit, or sediment: such as. a. : precipitated solid matter produced by water and sewage treatment processes. b. : muddy sediment in a steam boiler. c. : a precipitate or settling (such as a mixture of impurities and acid) from a mineral oil. 3.
SLUDGE definition: 1. soft, wet soil or a substance that looks like this: 2. soft, wet soil or a substance that looks…. Learn more.
Sludge is a semi-solid slurry that can be produced from a range of industrial processes, from water treatment, wastewater treatment or on-site sanitation systems.
soft, wet soil or a substance that looks like this: We seemed to spend the last mile of the walk knee-deep in sludge. Synonyms. goo informal. mud. slime. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Soil. alluvial. boulder clay. clayey. cover crop. earthiness. frozen. lime. loam. ooze. peat moss. sandy. sedimentation. silt. soil. solarization.
noun. /slʌdʒ/ [uncountable] thick, soft, wet mud or a substance that looks like it synonym slime. There was some sludge at the bottom of the tank. Want to learn more?
noun. 1. soft mud, snow, etc. 2. any deposit or sediment. 3. a surface layer of ice that has a slushy appearance. 4. (in sewage disposal) the solid constituents of sewage that precipitate during treatment and are removed for subsequent purification.
Sludge is thick, damp, almost sticky stuff. If your friend dares you to climb through an old sewer pipe, you might want to check first to see if it's full of sludge. Sludge is often used to talk about the byproduct of a process like sewage treatment or oil refining, but you can use it for any viscous goop. Sludge floating in your fish tank is a ...
n. 1. soft mud, snow, etc. 2. (Mechanical Engineering) any deposit or sediment. 3. (Physical Geography) a surface layer of ice that has a slushy appearance. 4. (Civil Engineering) (in sewage disposal) the solid constituents of sewage that precipitate during treatment and are removed for subsequent purification. [C17: probably related to slush]
noun. mud, mire, or ooze; slush. a deposit of ooze at the bottom of a body of water. any of various more or less mudlike deposits or mixtures. the sediment in a steam boiler or water tank. broken ice, as on the sea. a mixture of some finely powdered substance and water. sediment deposited during the treatment of sewage.
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023 How to use sludge in a sentence Forensic tests showed the birds died after becoming coated in sludge , Hubbard said.
