Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.

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  2. (countable, uncountable)An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.

  3. (countable, uncountable)Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.

  5. (countable, uncountable)A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.

  6. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Secretion, humour.

  7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Juice, sap.

More definitions
  • the process of seeping
  • any thick, viscous matter

Examples

37 sentences
  1. Green slime oozed out the pipe.

    deGrüner Schleim glibberte aus der Leitung.

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  2. Slime was oozing out of the pipe.

    ruИз трубы вытекала слизь.

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  3. There was green slime oozing out of the pipe.

    deAus dem Rohr sickerte grüner Schleim.

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  4. The unripe fig was oozing latex.

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  5. Yanni's father oozed manhood and authority.

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Translations

6 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
tanning liquor, tanning ooze:

Origin

* (Noun) Middle English wose (“sap”), from Old English wōs (“sap, froth”), from Proto-Germ

* (Noun) Middle English wose (“sap”), from Old English wōs (“sap, froth”), from Proto-Germanic *wōsą, from Proto-Indo-European *wóseh₂ (“sap”) (cf. Sanskrit वसा (vásā, “fat”)). Cognate to Middle Low German wose (“scum”), Old High German wasal (“rain”), Old Swedish os, oos, ooss, Swedish os. Compare Old Swedish os, oos, Swedish os, Danish os, Norwegian os (“fumes, vapors, reeking, fug”).

From Middle English wose, from Old English wāse (“mud, mire”), from Proto-West Germanic *waisā, from Proto-Germanic *waisǭ (compare Dutch waas (“haze, mist; bloom”), (obsolete) German Wasen (“turf, sod”), Old Norse veisa (“slime, stagnant pool”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow”) (compare Sanskrit विष्यति (viṣyati, “flow, let loose”)). Compare also Saterland Frisian öäzje (“to smear”). More at virus.

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Forms

plural: oozes
Singularooze
Pluraloozes

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

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