Sludge vs Sewer - What's the difference?
sludge | sewer |
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.
A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
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, title= A servant attending at a meal, responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes etc.
* 1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 287:
One who sews.
A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk.
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.As a noun sewer is
a pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage or sewer can be a servant attending at a meal, responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes etc or sewer can be one who sews.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.
Synonyms
* (separated solids) mud, mire, ooze, slushDerived terms
* activated sludge * oil sludge * sludge metal * sludgecoreVerb
(sludg)sewer
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia sewer) (en noun)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) asseour, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer , holding his white rod of office.
- His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer , or waiter.
Etymology 3
Noun
(en noun)- the apple-leaf sewer , Phoxopteris nubeculana
