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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sticky substance |
| Synonyms: | crud, glop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, sludge, slush, yuck |
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| Main Entry: | liquid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fluid |
| Synonyms: | aqua, aqueous material, broth, elixir, extract, flow, flux, goo, goop, juice, liquor, melted material, nectar, sap, secretion, slop, solution, swill |
| Notes: | fluids include liquids and gases; a liquid is a fluid with a fixed volume, and a gas is a fluid that can expand indefinitely liquid is a substance that flows and takes on the form of its container; a fluid - substance with no fixed shape and yields easily to external pressure - can be a liquid but it can also be a gas |
| Antonyms: | solid |
| Main Entry: | mire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muck, morass |
| Synonyms: | bog, dirt, fen, glop, goo, gunk, marsh, moss, mud, ooze*, quagmire, quicksand, slime, swamp |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ooze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liquid emitted |
| Synonyms: | alluvium, fluid, glop, goo, gook, gunk, mire, muck, mud, silt, slime, sludge |
| Main Entry: | slime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muck, gelled waste |
| Synonyms: | fungus, glop, goo, gunk, mire, mucus, mud, ooze, scum, sludge |
| Main Entry: | sludge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mud |
| Synonyms: | glop, goo, goop, grease, gunk, mire, muck, oil, ooze, scum, sediment, silt, slime, slop |
| Notes: | slush is partially melted snow, while sludge is the semisolid material produced by sewage treatment |
| Main Entry: | muck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | messy substance |
| Synonyms: | dirt, dung, filth, garbage, goo, gook, gunk, manure, mud, ooze, refuse, sewage, slime, sludge, trash, waste |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | liquid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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