Brine vs Sludge - What's the difference?
brine | sludge |
Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.
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, title= The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.
To preserve food in a salt solution.
A generic term for solids separated from suspension in a liquid.
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, title= A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler.
A mass of small pieces of ice on the surface of a body of water.
(uncountable, music) sludge metal
(informal) to slump or slouch.
to slop or drip slowly.
As a noun brine
is salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.As a verb brine
is to preserve food in a salt solution.As an initialism sludge is
(emergency medicine) a mnemonic ("salivation, lacrimation, urination, defecation, gastrointestinal upset, emesis") used to identify the common symptoms of certain affections of a cholinergic toxidrome.brine
English
Noun
(-)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room
Derived terms
* brinyVerb
(brin)Antonyms
* debrine * desalinateSee also
* bitternAnagrams
* ----sludge
English
(wikipedia sludge)Noun
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.
