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- Dictionarysludge/sləj/
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.
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The meaning of SLUDGE is mud, mire; especially : a muddy deposit (as on a riverbed) : ooze. How to use sludge in a sentence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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]
Definition of sludge noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
