Mud vs. Sludge

Mudnoun

A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.

Mudnoun

A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.

Mudnoun

(construction industry slang) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.

Mudnoun

(figuratively) Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.

Mudnoun

(slang) Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.

Mudnoun

stool that is exposed as a result of anal sex

Mudnoun

(geology) A particle less than 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale

Mudnoun

A black person.

Mudverb

(transitive) To make muddy or dirty; to apply mud to (something).

Mudverb

(transitive) To make turbid.

Mudverb

To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon.

Mudnoun

Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.

Mudverb

To bury in mud.

Mudverb

To make muddy or turbid.

Mudnoun

water soaked soil; soft wet earth

Mudnoun

slanderous remarks or charges

Mudverb

soil with mud, muck, or mire;

Mudverb

plaster with mud

Mudnoun

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.

Mud

Mud is soil, loam, silt or clay mixed with water. It usually forms after rainfall or near water sources.

Sludgenoun

Solids separated from suspension in a liquid.

Sludgenoun

A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.

Sludgenoun

A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler.

Sludgenoun

A mass of small pieces of ice on the surface of a body of water.

Sludgenoun

sludge metal

Sludgeverb

to slump or slouch.

Sludgeverb

(intransitive) to slop or drip slowly.

Sludgenoun

Mud; mire; soft mud; slush.

Sludgenoun

Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow.

Sludgenoun

See Slime, 4.

Sludgenoun

Anything resembling mud or slush; as: (a) A muddy or slimy deposit from sweage. (b) Mud from a drill hole in boring. (c) Muddy sediment in a steam boiler. (d) Settling of cottonseed oil, used in making soap, etc. (e) A residuum of crude paraffin-oil distillation.

Sludgenoun

the precipitate produced by sewage treatment

Sludgenoun

any thick messy substance

Sludgenoun

thick, soft, wet mud or a similar viscous mixture of liquid and solid components, especially the product of an industrial or refining process

Sludgenoun

dirty oil, especially in the sump of an internal combustion engine.

Sludgenoun

an unattractive muddy shade of brown or green

Sludgenoun

sea ice newly formed in small pieces.

Sludge

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. For example, it can be produced as a settled suspension obtained from conventional drinking water treatment, as sewage sludge from wastewater treatment processes or as fecal sludge from pit latrines and septic tanks.