Filth vs Sludge - What's the difference?
filth | sludge |
dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles
smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution
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(British, pejorative, slang) the police
weeds growing on pasture land
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 filth
is dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.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.filth
English
Noun
(-)- to purify the soul from the dross and filth of sensual delights
- Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.
Derived terms
* filthysludge
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.