Sludge
noun
A thick, soft, wet mud or a similar viscous mixture of liquid and solid components.
The pipes were blocked with sludge.
Often appears as...
- oil sludge
- industrial sludge
noun
A semi-solid slurry that can be produced from a range of industrial processes, including water treatment, wastewater treatment, and on-site sanitation systems.
Sludge from wastewater treatment plants is often incinerated to reduce its volume.
Often appears as...
- sludge treatment
- sludge disposal
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Technical
noun
A form of slow, heavy rock music typically characterized by its thick texture and low-tuned guitars.
The band is known for its distinctive sludge metal sound.
Often appears as...
- sludge metal
- sludge rock music
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Modern
noun
A thick, soft, wet mud or a similar viscous mixture of liquid and solid components.
The pipes were blocked with sludge.
Often appears as...
- oil sludge
- industrial sludge
noun
A semi-solid slurry that can be produced from a range of industrial processes, including water treatment, wastewater treatment, and on-site sanitation systems.
Sludge from wastewater treatment plants is often incinerated to reduce its volume.
Often appears as...
- sludge treatment
- sludge disposal
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A form of slow, heavy rock music typically characterized by its thick texture and low-tuned guitars.
The band is known for its distinctive sludge metal sound.
Often appears as...
- sludge metal
- sludge rock music
Usage tips
Modern
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Picture a wet, dirty substance like the mud you'd avoid stepping in.
After the flood, the streets were lined with sludge.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Sludge often implies something undesirable and inconvenient.
We need to clean the sludge out of the garden pond.
Pro Tip 3/3Consistency Clue
It’s usually thicker than water but more fluid than compact soil.
He could barely move his boots through the sludge on the path.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Picture a wet, dirty substance like the mud you'd avoid stepping in.
After the flood, the streets were lined with sludge.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Sludge often implies something undesirable and inconvenient.
We need to clean the sludge out of the garden pond.
Pro Tip 3/3Consistency Clue
It’s usually thicker than water but more fluid than compact soil.
He could barely move his boots through the sludge on the path.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Picture a wet, dirty substance like the mud you'd avoid stepping in.
After the flood, the streets were lined with sludge.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Sludge often implies something undesirable and inconvenient.
We need to clean the sludge out of the garden pond.
Pro Tip 3/3Consistency Clue
It’s usually thicker than water but more fluid than compact soil.
He could barely move his boots through the sludge on the path.
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Video examples
Juan Enriquez: Using...
enormous amount -- first of mining, the largest trucks in the world are working here, and then you've got to pull out this black sludge, which is basically oil that doesn't flow. It's tied to the sand. And then you've got to use a lot of steam to separate it, which only works at today's oil prices.
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My journey from Marine...
my eyes glow white, and I hold this thing for I could speak to the good-for-nothing in a language he maybe understands. Click-click! And the good-for-nothings become good-for-disappearing into whatever toxic waste, chemical sludge shithole they crawled out of. And it's just me and janitor man.
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How we're using dogs to...
and they're able to see through all the, sort of, odor sludge to find you, that individual, and bite you as a blood meal. But what would happen if one of you was infected with malaria? Well, let's just have a quick look at the malaria life cycle. So it's quite complex,
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Carolyn Porco: This is...
It can wash the sludge off high mountain peaks and hills, down into the lowlands. So stop and think for a minute. Try to imagine what the surface of Titan might look like. It's dark. High noon on Titan is as dark as deep earth twilight on the Earth.
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Sarah and Eric...
of water on top of still very safe solid sea ice although not very fun to travel through and we travels through this four days is about calf deep water that we sludge through by this time where it's led to a wreck there was holes in them
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The psychological weight...
it as this sugar sludge going through my bloodstream to the soundtrack of jaws like 29 million other americans i was sent home with a diet a prescription and a little booklet about my disease and as i dug into it i learned
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Meet the microbes that...
mostly in the form of microplastic fragments that pollute the food chain. Fortunately, there are microbes that may be able to take a bite out of this growing problem. In 2016, a team of Japanese researchers sampling sludge
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Where Does Your Sewage...
surface while a second submerged blade dredges the heavier settled sludge from the bottom of the tank all this solid sludge is then sent for further processing the remaining sewage then flows down
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Thomas Thwaites: How I...
If we look around us, much of what surrounds us started life as various rocks and sludge
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I Bought a Rain Forest,...
So, he's mixing the mercury with the sludge?
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Juan Enriquez: Using...
enormous amount -- first of mining, the largest trucks in the world are working here, and then you've got to pull out this black sludge, which is basically oil that doesn't flow. It's tied to the sand. And then you've got to use a lot of steam to separate it, which only works at today's oil prices.
Video examples
My journey from Marine...
my eyes glow white, and I hold this thing for I could speak to the good-for-nothing in a language he maybe understands. Click-click! And the good-for-nothings become good-for-disappearing into whatever toxic waste, chemical sludge shithole they crawled out of. And it's just me and janitor man.
Video examples
How we're using dogs to...
and they're able to see through all the, sort of, odor sludge to find you, that individual, and bite you as a blood meal. But what would happen if one of you was infected with malaria? Well, let's just have a quick look at the malaria life cycle. So it's quite complex,
Video examples
Carolyn Porco: This is...
It can wash the sludge off high mountain peaks and hills, down into the lowlands. So stop and think for a minute. Try to imagine what the surface of Titan might look like. It's dark. High noon on Titan is as dark as deep earth twilight on the Earth.
Video examples
Sarah and Eric...
of water on top of still very safe solid sea ice although not very fun to travel through and we travels through this four days is about calf deep water that we sludge through by this time where it's led to a wreck there was holes in them
Video examples
The psychological weight...
it as this sugar sludge going through my bloodstream to the soundtrack of jaws like 29 million other americans i was sent home with a diet a prescription and a little booklet about my disease and as i dug into it i learned
Video examples
Meet the microbes that...
mostly in the form of microplastic fragments that pollute the food chain. Fortunately, there are microbes that may be able to take a bite out of this growing problem. In 2016, a team of Japanese researchers sampling sludge
Video examples
Where Does Your Sewage...
surface while a second submerged blade dredges the heavier settled sludge from the bottom of the tank all this solid sludge is then sent for further processing the remaining sewage then flows down
Video examples
Thomas Thwaites: How I...
If we look around us, much of what surrounds us started life as various rocks and sludge
Video examples
I Bought a Rain Forest,...
So, he's mixing the mercury with the sludge?
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Quote examples
Pico Iyer
Indian Writer
Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.
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Sylvia Earle
American Scientist
As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.
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David Trimble
Irish Politician
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
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Martha Plimpton
American Model
See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted.
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Chris Cornell
American Musician
Whenever anyone sends me a link to a band, saying, 'These guys sound exactly like Soundgarden,' it's always some super simple sludge riff with a singer that sings high and screechy. And it's really awful.
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Dave Barry
American Journalist
The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.
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Pico Iyer
Indian Writer
Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.
Quote examples
Sylvia Earle
American Scientist
As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.
Quote examples
David Trimble
Irish Politician
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
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Martha Plimpton
American Model
See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted.
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Chris Cornell
American Musician
Whenever anyone sends me a link to a band, saying, 'These guys sound exactly like Soundgarden,' it's always some super simple sludge riff with a singer that sings high and screechy. And it's really awful.
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Dave Barry
American Journalist
The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.
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