Definitions for sludges

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sludges sludge

Spelling: [sluhj]

IPA: /slʌdʒ/

Sludges is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in sludges (deglssu).

Definitions for sludges

noun

1. mud, mire, or ooze; slush.
2. a deposit of ooze at the bottom of a body of water.
3. any of various more or less mudlike deposits or mixtures.
4. the sediment in a steam boiler or water tank.
5. broken ice, as on the sea.
6. a mixture of some finely powdered substance and water.
7. sediment deposited during the treatment of sewage.
8. Also called activated sludge. Bacteriology. sewage sediment that contains a heavy growth of microorganisms, resulting from vigorous aeration.
9. a fine, mudlike powder produced by a mining drill.

Origin of sludges

1640-50; variant of dial. slutch, slitch, Middle English slich slime, wet mud (compare its derivative slucched muddy); apparently of expressive orig.

Examples for sludges

Rain had fallen heavily overnight and the streets were caked in sludge.

No sea-weed, no fishy particles, no sludge, no beards of oysters.

The mud or sludge would form into scale if allowed to remain.

The sludge was sent by rail and spread around on a defunct resort ranch near Sierra Blanca.

It is found at Birmingham that one ton of sludge with 90 per cent.

In 1992 the EPA removed 97,000 tons of liquid waste, and 60 tons of sludge from the site.

Forensic tests showed the birds died after becoming coated in sludge, Hubbard said.

sludge forms an appreciable but unavoidable source of loss of material.

One who has noticed it in the Teviot says, that the inhabitants there call it "sludge."

They are quite accustomed there to dealing with the precipitation of sludge.