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SLUDGING

"SLUDGING" is a common misspelling or typo for: sledging, slugging, smudging.


Specialty Definition: SLUDGING

DomainDefinition

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.

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Usage Frequency: SLUDGING

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)66.67%2245,945
Noun (singular)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: SLUDGING

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "SLUDGING": de-sludging.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SLUDGING

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

   

Portuguese

  

escoamento de lama, colmatação com lama. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

formación de sedimentos, eliminación de lodos, dragado (dredge). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

slamtransport, slamsugning, slamströmning, slambildning, igenfyllning av torksprickor i jorddamm. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SLUDGING

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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