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Sludge vs. Slug — What's the Difference?

Sludge vs. Slug — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Sludge and Slug

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Sludge

Sludge is a semi-solid slurry that can be produced from a range of industrial processes, from water treatment, wastewater treatment or on-site sanitation systems. For example, it can be produced as a settled suspension obtained from conventional drinking water treatment, as sewage sludge from wastewater treatment processes or as fecal sludge from pit latrines and septic tanks.

Slug

Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word slug is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a small internal shell, particularly sea slugs and semislugs (this is in contrast to the common name snail, which applies to gastropods that have a coiled shell large enough that they can fully retract its soft parts into the shell).

Sludge

Thick, soft, wet mud or a similar viscous mixture of liquid and solid components, especially the product of an industrial or refining process
The dumping of sewage sludge
Miscellaneous chemicals and treated sludges

Slug

A round bullet larger than buckshot.

Sludge

An unattractive muddy shade of brown or green
A sludge green
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Slug

A shot of liquor.

Sludge

Sea ice newly formed in small pieces.

Slug

An amount of liquid, especially liquor, that is swallowed in one gulp; a swig.

Sludge

Semisolid material such as the type precipitated by sewage treatment.

Slug

A small metal disk for use in a vending or gambling machine, especially one used illegally.

Sludge

Mud, mire, or ooze covering the ground or forming a deposit, as on a riverbed.

Slug

A lump of metal or glass prepared for further processing.

Sludge

Finely broken or half-formed ice on a body of water, especially the sea.

Slug

A strip of type metal, less than type-high and thicker than a lead, used for spacing.

Sludge

A semisolid mass composed of an aggregation of cells (such as red blood cells in blood vessels) or particulate matter (such as cholesterol crystals and calcium salts in bile).

Slug

A line of cast type in a single strip of metal.

Sludge

To form sludge.

Slug

A compositor's type line of identifying marks or instructions, inserted temporarily in copy.

Sludge

Solids separated from suspension in a liquid.

Slug

(Physics) The British unit of mass that accelerates at the rate of one foot per second per second when acted on by a force of one pound on the surface of the Earth.

Sludge

A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.

Slug

Any of various terrestrial gastropod mollusks having a slow-moving slimy elongated body with no shell or with a flat rudimentary shell on or under the skin, usually found in moist habitats.

Sludge

A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler.

Slug

A sea slug.

Sludge

A mass of small pieces of ice on the surface of a body of water.

Slug

The smooth soft larva of certain insects, such as the sawfly.

Sludge

Sludge metal

Slug

A slimy mass of aggregated amoeboid cells that develops into the spore-bearing fruiting body of a cellular slime mold.

Sludge

To slump or slouch.

Slug

(Informal) A sluggard.

Sludge

(intransitive) To slop or drip slowly.

Slug

A hard heavy blow, as with the fist or a baseball bat.

Sludge

Mud; mire; soft mud; slush.

Slug

A commuter who slugs.

Sludge

Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow.

Slug

(Printing) To add slugs to.

Sludge

See Slime, 4.

Slug

(Informal) To drink rapidly or in large gulps
Slugged down a can of pop.

Sludge

Anything resembling mud or slush; as: (a) A muddy or slimy deposit from sweage. (b) Mud from a drill hole in boring. (c) Muddy sediment in a steam boiler. (d) Settling of cottonseed oil, used in making soap, etc. (e) A residuum of crude paraffin-oil distillation.

Slug

To strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat.

Sludge

The precipitate produced by sewage treatment

Slug

To wait for or obtain a ride to work by standing at a roadside hoping to be picked up by a driver who needs another passenger to use the HOV lanes of a highway.

Sludge

Any thick messy substance

Slug

Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.

Slug

(obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.

Slug

A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.

Slug

A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.

Slug

A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.

Slug

A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.

Slug

(journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.

Slug

The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.

Slug

A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.

Slug

A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.

Slug

(railroading) An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.

Slug

(television editing) A black screen.

Slug

(metal typesetting) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.

Slug

(regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.

Slug

A hitchhiking commuter.

Slug

(web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.

Slug

(obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.

Slug

A ship that sails slowly.

Slug

To hit A hard blow, usually with the fist.

Slug

To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.

Slug

To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.

Slug

To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.

Slug

To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.

Slug

(transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
To slug a gun

Slug

To make sluggish.

Slug

(transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.
The fighter slugged his opponent into unconsciousness.

Slug

A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.

Slug

A hindrance; an obstruction.

Slug

Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.

Slug

Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.

Slug

A ship that sails slowly.
His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.

Slug

An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.

Slug

A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, - used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.

Slug

To move slowly; to lie idle.
To slug in sloth and sensual delight.

Slug

To make sluggish.

Slug

To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.

Slug

To strike heavily.

Slug

To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; - said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.

Slug

A projectile that is fired from a gun

Slug

An idle slothful person

Slug

Any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell

Slug

Strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat;
He slugged me so hard that I passed out

Slug

Be idle; exist in a changeless situation;
The old man sat and stagnated on his porch
He slugged in bed all morning

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