The meaning of Sludge

noun

A deposit of clay, silt, and sand left by flowing floodwater in a river valley or delta, typically producing fertile soil.

Usage examples:

Many vineyards are located on valley bottoms underlain by alluvium which can provide deep, free-dra…

noun

Sticky mud or dirt.

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That weird clag that fills your back yards and covers your roads

noun

Sticky mud; filth.

Usage examples:

Now where i come from these types would be called ‘happy as a pig in clarts’.

noun

A substance which is considered unpleasant or disgusting, typically because of its dirtiness.

Usage examples:

Use a good soap compound to remove accumulated crud

noun

The four basic operations (create, read, update, and delete) of data storage, regarded collectively.

Usage examples:

We'll create a simple database on which we will be performing crud operations

noun

Any offensive substance

Usage examples:

You couldn’t see a thing with all the crud in the air.

noun

A sum of money paid into a bank or building society account.

Usage examples:

Cash funds which are an alternative to bank or building society deposits

verb

Put or set down (something or someone) in a specific place.

Usage examples:

He deposited a pile of school books on the kitchen table

noun

An amount of money paid into an account

Usage examples:

She made a large deposit last thursday., will you get your deposit back if you cancel the trip?, th…

noun

A substance, such as mud or dust, that soils someone or something.

Usage examples:

Jo wiped the dirt off her face

noun

Earth or a substance like it that has gotten on the surface of something such as your skin

Usage examples:

I sat on the ground and got dirt on my pants., after the rain, the woods smelled of wet dirt and gr…

plural noun

The remnants of a liquid left in a container, together with any sediment.

Usage examples:

Coffee dregs

plural noun

Small, solid pieces that sink to the bottom of a liquid

Usage examples:

Coffee dregs, the dregs of society

noun

Any thick liquid or sticky substance

noun

Sticky and amorphous matter, typically something unpleasant.

Usage examples:

A cup of vile green glop

verb

Transfer (a sloppy or sticky substance) to a container.

Usage examples:

Glop 2 gallons of premixed compound into a bucket

noun

A sticky, thick substance, such as food, that appears unpleasant

Usage examples:

I can’t believe they served us this glop.

noun

A sticky or slimy substance.

Usage examples:

He tipped the grayish goo from the test tube

noun

A thick, sticky substance

Usage examples:

Mudslides left goo all over the highway.

noun

A foreigner, especially a person of se asian descent.

noun

A sloppy wet or viscous substance.

Usage examples:

All that gook she kept putting on her face

noun

Something unpleasant, dirty, or of poor quality.

Usage examples:

They watch endless grot on telly

noun

A grotto.

noun

The solid surface of the earth.

Usage examples:

He lay on the ground

verb

Short for ground bass.

adjective

Reduced to fine particles by crushing or mincing.

Usage examples:

Ground cumin

adjective

Connected with a type of rock music, popular in the early 1990s, or with a style of clothing that gives the appearance of being dirty and not cared for

noun

A slimy, dirty, or otherwise unpleasant substance.

Usage examples:

He got mud and cow guck all over his white jersey

noun

An unpleasantly sticky or viscous substance.

Usage examples:

Concentration is adversely affected by smoking with the gradual blocking up of the arteries and vei…

verb

Clog or obstruct something with gunge.

Usage examples:

His own company had to come back and bleed the radiators after the new pump was put in, because the…

noun

Any unpleasant, soft, dirty substance, often one that you cannot recognize

Usage examples:

It was amazing how much gunge had accumulated in the pipe.

noun

An unpleasantly sticky or messy substance.

Usage examples:

Factories spewing out unspeakable gunk

noun

Any thick, sticky, unpleasant substance

Usage examples:

There was a lot of gunk on my bike chain.

plural noun

The sediment of wine in the barrel; dregs.

Usage examples:

The wine is aged on the lees in the bottle for about three years prior to disgorgement.

noun

A stretch of swampy or boggy ground.

Usage examples:

Acres of land had been reduced to a mire

verb

Cause to become stuck in mud.

Usage examples:

Sometimes a heavy truck gets mired down

noun

An area of deep, wet, sticky earth, or fig. any messy situation

Usage examples:

The cart’s wheels sank in the red mire., fig. at the time the country was mired in the great depres…

noun

Dirt, rubbish, or waste matter.

Usage examples:

I'll just clean the muck off the windscreen

verb

Spread manure on (land).

Usage examples:

Half the farm is mucked every year

noun

Wet, sticky dirt

Usage examples:

It was hard to walk in the muck.

noun

Soft, sticky matter resulting from the mixing of earth and water.

Usage examples:

Ankle deep in mud, we squelched across a meadow

noun

A computer-based text or virtual reality game which several players play at the same time, interacting with each other as well as with characters controlled by the computer.

verb

(of a fluid) slowly trickle or seep out of something.

Usage examples:

Blood was oozing from a wound in his scalp

noun

The sluggish flow of a fluid.

Usage examples:

I picked a fruit and watched the ooze of fig milk from the stem

noun

Wet mud or slime, especially that found at the bottom of a river, lake, or sea.

Usage examples:

Abandoned barges sunk in ooze

verb

Cause (an event or situation, typically one that is undesirable) to happen suddenly, unexpectedly, or prematurely.

Usage examples:

The incident precipitated a political crisis

adjective

Done, made, or acting suddenly or without careful consideration.

Usage examples:

I must apologize for my staff—their actions were precipitate

noun

A substance precipitated from a solution.

Usage examples:

Any silver ions present form a white precipitate (silver chloride).

noun

A small amount of something that remains after the main part has gone or been taken or used.

Usage examples:

The fine residue left after the sorting of tea

noun

Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; dregs.

Usage examples:

The ice freezes the wine and sediment at the base of the cork

verb

Settle as sediment.

Usage examples:

The erythrocytes were allowed to sediment within the syringe

noun

Solid material, such as dirt or minerals, that falls to the bottom of a liquid

noun

Fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, especially in a channel or harbour.

Usage examples:

Water continuing out over the playa surface carries with it a quantity of fine sand, silt, and clay…

verb

Become filled or blocked with silt.

Usage examples:

The river's mouth had silted up

noun

An unpleasantly thick and slippery liquid substance.

Usage examples:

The cold stone was wet with slime

verb

Cover with slime.

Usage examples:

What grass remained was slimed over with pale brown mud

noun

A smooth, sticky, liquid substance usually considered unpleasant

Usage examples:

A greenish slime covered the surface of the water near the sewer pipe.

noun

A person who is lazy and has low standards of cleanliness.

Usage examples:

He's a slob and expects others to clean up after him

verb

Behave in a lazy and slovenly way.

Usage examples:

He spent his life watching television and generally slobbing around

noun

A person who is messy, unattractive, and rude

Usage examples:

Some guys are real slobs., a working slob

noun

A semi-liquid mixture, typically of fine particles of manure, cement, or coal suspended in water.

Usage examples:

Clay slurry

noun

A mixture of water and small pieces of a solid, especially such a mixture used in an industrial or farming process

noun

Partially melted snow or ice.

Usage examples:

The snow was turning into brown slush in the gutters

verb

Make a squelching or splashing sound.

Usage examples:

There was water slushing around in the galley

noun

Snow or ice that has started to melt

Usage examples:

The city’s streets were covered with dirty, gray slush., slushy snow can be very slippery.