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| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | A chemical process that takes place during discharging and charging onto the positive plates and results in the irreversible loss of positive mass. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Removing sludge from the bottom of the pot with a sludge ladle. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Filling or choking the waterways of a bit with drill cuttings; mudding up. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "SLUDGING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "SLUDGING" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SLUDGING": de-sludging. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SLUDGING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | slamudfældning, slamsugning, tilsiltning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitscheppen, het vormen van slurry, dichtslibben (silting up), baggeren (to dredge, to excavate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pohjasakan poisto, lietteellä tiivistäminen, liettäminen (décantation, elutriation), aktiivimateriaalin irtoaminen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dragage, coulée de boue (mud slide), colmatage avec de la boue, agrégation des hématies, agrégation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schlamm ausschöpfen, Verschlaemmung (puddling), Einschlaemmen, Abschlammen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αφαίρεση λάσπης, δημιουργία ιλύος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | colata di fango (mud slide, mudflow, mudrock, mudrock flow, mudslide, torrential wash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | udgingslay escoamento de lama, colmatação com lama. (various references) formación de sedimentos, eliminación de lodos, dragado (dredge). (various references) slamtransport, slamsugning, slamströmning, slambildning, igenfyllning av torksprickor i jorddamm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-g-i-l-n-s-u" | |
-2 letters: dingus, gluing, guilds, luging, lungis, sluing. | |
-3 letters: dings, dungs, gilds, glugs, guids, guild, iglus, lings, lungi, lungs, nidus, sling, slung, suing, using. | |
-4 letters: digs, ding, dins, dugs, dung, duns, gids, gigs, gild, gins, glug, gnus, guid, guls, guns, iglu, lids, ling, lins, lugs, lung, nils, sign, sild, sing, slid, slug, snug, sung. | |
-5 letters: dig. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-g-i-l-n-s-u" | |
+3 letters: groundlings, mudslinging. | |
+4 letters: bulldoggings, disgruntling, disgustingly, mudslingings. | |
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