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noun
Solids separated from suspension in a liquid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A mass of small pieces of ice on the surface of a water body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Ellipsis of sludge metal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Institutional policies that introduce tedium and inefficiency in processes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: behavioral science
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noun
An acronym used to help remember the common symptoms of certain affections of a cholinergic toxidrome: salivation, lacrimation, urination, defecation, gastrointestinal upset, emesis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: mnemonic
Topics: emergency-medicine, medicine, sciences
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verb
To slump or slouch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, intransitive
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verb
To slop or drip slowly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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noun
the precipitate produced by sewage treatment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: precipitate
noun
any thick, viscous matter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: slime, goo, goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze
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Broader terms: matter
Narrower terms: sapropel
History
From Middle English slugge, sluche (“mud, mire”), probably an alteration of Middle English sliche, slicche ("mud, slush, tar"; whence Modern English slitch), from Old English *sliċ, from Proto-West Germanic *sliki, *slīk, from Proto-Germanic *slikiz, *slīką (“mud, slush”). Cognate with Dutch slijk, German Schlick. Compare also slush.
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