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sludge
(slŭj)n.
1. Semisolid material such as the type precipitated by sewage treatment.
2. Mud, mire, or ooze covering the ground or forming a deposit, as on a riverbed.
3. Finely broken or half-formed ice on a body of water, especially the sea.
4. A semisolid mass composed of an aggregation of cells (such as red blood cells in blood vessels) or particulate matter (such as cholesterol crystals and calcium salts in bile).
intr.v. sludged, sludg·ing, sludg·es
To form sludge.
[Perhaps alteration of dialectal slutch, mire.]
sludg′y adj.
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sludge
(slʌdʒ)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]
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sludge
(slʌdʒ)n.
1. mud, mire, or ooze; slush.
2. a deposit of ooze at the bottom of a body of water.
3. any of various mudlike deposits or mixtures.
4. broken ice, as on the sea.
5. sediment deposited during the treatment of sewage.
[1640–50; variant of dial. slutch, slitch, Middle English slich slime, wet mud];
sludg′y, adj. sludg•i•er, sludg•i•est.
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| Noun | 1. |  sludge - the precipitate produced by sewage treatmentprecipitate - a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering |
| 2. |  sludge - any thick, viscous matter matter - that which has mass and occupies space; "physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it" sapropel - sludge (rich in organic matter) that accumulates at the bottom of lakes or oceans |
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sludge
noun sediment, ooze, silt, mud, muck, residue, slop, mire, slime, slush, slob (Irish), dregs, gloop (informal) All dumping of sludge will be banned.
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sludge
[slʌdʒ] N (= mud) → fango m, lodo m; (= sediment) → residuos mpl; (= sewage) → aguas fpl residualesCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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sludge
(sladʒ) noun soft, slimy mud, grease or other matter which settles at the bottom of a liquid. The river-bed is covered with thick sludge.
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