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Definition: Drilling Mud |
Drilling MudNoun1. A mixture of clays and chemicals and water; pumped down the drill pipe to lubricate and cool the drilling bit and to to flush out the cuttings and to strengthen the sides of the hole. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Mining | A suspension, generally aqueous, used in rotary drilling and pumped down through the drill pipe to seal off porous zones and to counterbalance the pressure of oil and gas; consists of various substances in a finely divided state among which bentonite and barite are most common. Oil may be used as a base of water. CF:circulation fluid; mud-laden fluid. (references) |
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Synonym: Drilling MudSynonym: drilling fluid (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Drilling Mud |
| English words defined with "drilling mud": drilling pipe. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drilling mud": ada mud, analyst, geochemical prospecting ♦ bark fiber ♦ CHIEF ENGINEER, RESEARCH, claypit, colloidal mud, core analyst ♦ drill stem, drill-stem test ♦ filter cake, formation water ♦ LABORATORY ASSISTANT, laboratory teste, lost circulation ♦ mud log, mud wall cake ♦ ROTARY DERRICK OPERATOR, rotary drilling ♦ seconds A.P.I., superintendent, drilling ♦ TOOL PUSHER, trembling sieve, turbodrill ♦ vibrating mud-screen, vibrating screen ♦ walnut shell, well logging, WELL-LOGGING CAPTAIN, MUD ANALYSIS. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
drilling mud | 20 |
company drilling mud | 3 |
cutting discharge drilling mud zero | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "drilling mud"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | borevæske (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush), boreslam (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush), boremuddervæske (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush), boremudder (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | spoeling (brewer'grains, cooling mud, distiller's wash, distilling slops, draff, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, flushing, greasy wastes, hog-wash, irrigation, lavage, mud flush, pig swill, pig-wash, scalded fodder, scavenging, still slops, still wash, stillage sludge, stillage(sludge), swill, swillings), boorspoeling (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | porausneste (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush), porausliete (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fluide de forage (drilling fluid, drilling sludge), boue de refroidissement (drilling fluid, drilling sludge), boue de forage (drilling fluid, drilling sludge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dickspülung (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush), Spülschlamm (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush), Bohrspülung (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush), Bohrschlamm (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λάσπη διάτρησης (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fúróiszap (sludge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fluido di perforazione (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush), fango di perforazione (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush), fango di circolazione (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illingdray udmay lama de arrefecimento (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush), fluido de sondagem (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush). (various references) lodos refrigerantes (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush), lodos de perforación (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush), fluido de perforación (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush), cieno de perforación (sludge). (various references) borrhålsvätska (cooling mud, drilling fluid, drilling sludge, mud flush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-g-i-i-l-l-m-n-r-u" | |
-3 letters: drilling, illuming, middling, muddling, riddling, ruddling. | |
-4 letters: dirling, drumlin, dulling, lidding, milling, millrun, mudding, mulling, ridding, rilling. | |
-5 letters: dirdum, dirndl, duding, during, idling, indium, liming, limuli, luring, miring, muling, muring, ridgil, riding, riling, riming, ruling, ungird. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 69 6C 6C 69 6E 67 4D 75 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01110010 01101001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01001101 01110101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r i l l i n g   M u d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0069 006C 006C 0069 006E 0067 004D 0075 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38847578787580732478770 |
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