What's the difference between dung and muck?

Dung


Definition:

  • () of Ding
  • (n.) The excrement of an animal.
  • (v. t.) To manure with dung.
  • (v. t.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.
  • (v. i.) To void excrement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A total of 202 cultures of yeasts were isolated and characterized from king crab and Dungeness crab meat.
  • (2) 15 species were found on dung pellets of wild living herbivorous mammals.
  • (3) dives females oviposited in a medium of rat dung and water.
  • (4) Dorian Lucas, a nuclear specialist at energy consultancy, Inenco, made his comments after it was revealed that power group, EDF, had won permission to change the rules for its Dungeness B station.
  • (5) The result of this investigation indicated that probably the majority of the indoor catches are due to the migration of outdoor-produced sandflies specially in close surroundings where dried cow dung droppings were left.
  • (6) It was in the US that things really kicked off, when Giuliani declared: “The idea of, in the name of art, having a city subsidise art, so-called works of art, in which people are throwing elephant dung at a picture of the Virgin Mary, is sick.” He threatened to remove funding from the Brooklyn Museum unless “the director comes to his senses”.
  • (7) The only site rejected in the draft document was Dungeness, chiefly because of its "unique ecosystem".
  • (8) The composition of the myxobacterial flora depends on ecological factors (kind of dung pellets, rock, bark and pH).
  • (9) A smaller group of 9 horses showed a subacute course while 22 horses had chronic enteritis with intermittent diarrhoea--often semisolid like cow's dung--increased peristalsis, weight loss and, in some cases, hypoproteinaemia with subcutaneous edema.
  • (10) The dung of both the white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum, and the black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis, is considered to be a possible alternative site for the immatures of C. kanagai.
  • (11) Also featured are the puffer fish, dung beetle, veiled chameleon and moon jellyfish.
  • (12) Among dairy cows, wet cattle dung and all that, he was in a tie and jacket.
  • (13) Clifford Newbold, an architect who was involved in the design of Milbank Tower and Dungeness Lighthouse, had hoped to restore the palace to its Georgian splendour, but he died last year.
  • (14) The adults, puparium and 3rd instar larva of a dung-breeding fly, Musca nevilli sp.
  • (15) Predictions for this model are tested using all available data from the dung fly, Scatophaga stercoraria.
  • (16) The incidence of extensive damage to natural dung pats within five days of deposition, caused by biotic factors, another possible cause of D viviparus third stage larvae dispersal, varied from 0 to 92 per cent of the pats depending on their degree of dryness.
  • (17) Invasion by the recently defined dung beetle, Maladera matrida, is a new phenomenon which causes extreme distress, usually starting after invasion by the insect in the early morning hours.
  • (18) The quantitative and comparative analysis of the Purkinje cells indicates the higher mean linear density in the anterior lobe, with regard to posterior lobe, in the cerebellum of the dung cook, Gallus gallus.
  • (19) In 1999 Rudy Giuliani, the then mayor of New York City, tried to shut down Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition after taking offence at Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary, which featured a portrait of the Virgin Mary created partly from elephant dung.
  • (20) The transmission of Johne's disease was possibly promoted by furnishing the shelters with a scraper system to remove the dung, which system also reached the compartment housing young cattle.

Muck


Definition:

  • () abbreviation of Amuck.
  • (n.) Dung in a moist state; manure.
  • (n.) Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.
  • (n.) Anything filthy or vile.
  • (n.) Money; -- in contempt.
  • (a.) Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork.
  • (v. t.) To manure with muck.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The muck-raking website Lifenews.ru, which has close links to the FSB, Putin’s former spy agency, has pointed the finger at Nemtsov’s colourful love life.
  • (2) Their 12-year stewardship transformed an obscure theatre notorious for the austerity of its seats into a fashionable address renowned for its rollcall of stars - including Ralph Fiennes, Diana Rigg, Juliet Binoche and Cate Blanchett - all of whom were eager to muck in with communal dressing rooms and a minimum wage.
  • (3) 'They don't use tractors, they use cow muck as fertiliser; and they have low-tech irrigation systems in Kenya.
  • (4) As we picked our way along stream-side bushes, pulling off hard little rosehips and stripping elders of their berries, the scent of September filled the air; the smell after muck-spreaders had been out in the fields.
  • (5) He's not mucked it up today – he's not really been given the opportunity.
  • (6) It goes from being a load of muck to being made into a household object.
  • (7) Time, then, for another "D" word: "decent" Tories and Liberal Democrats, he says, will be expected to muck in.
  • (8) Billy Ivory (Common as Muck) Okay, well, the BBC drama department still produces, consistently the best drama on TV: Criminal Justice, Occupation, Freefall, All the Small Things, Doctor Who, Revelations, Life on Mars.
  • (9) Metal-contaminated muck soil (5700 micrograms g-1 Ni, 650 micrograms g-1 Cu and 90 micrograms g-1 Co) was obtained from a farm adjacent to a nickel refinery in southern Ontario and was placed on a field test plot at Brampton, Ontario, during the summer of 1984.
  • (10) We have previously described a visual area situated in the cortex surrounding the deep infolding of the anterior ectosylvian sulcus of the cat (Mucke et al.
  • (11) We are in power and therefore we have got a bit of muck on our hands.
  • (12) And one of the things I had wanted to do for ages was get stuck into a bunch of things that I had been mucking around with that didn't fit into the Radiohead zone.'
  • (13) Local villagers came out to see them, and Joe, as always was mucking around.
  • (14) I will leave you in the hands of Gregg Bakowski (gregg.bakowski@theguardian.com if you want to get in touch), and with this video of me and Gregg mucking about outside Guardian Towers earlier.
  • (15) He got his sleeves rolled up and mucked in like everyone else.
  • (16) His philosophy of journalism coincided closely with that of guiding Eye spirit, legendary muck-raking reporter Claud Cockburn who dismissed the popular assumption that "facts" lay around like gold in the Yukon waiting to be picked up by a reporter.
  • (17) "In reality, it gets reported but only as part of the generally muck and mire of grease-blotter journalism."
  • (18) A real tiny twitch of a balk that Buck and Muck Carver don't spot or understand October 31, 2013 We've got a few more innings to go here so.... 2.01am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 6, bottom of the 5th Kevin Siegrist, whom you may remember from that game one Ortiz homer, starts the inning for St Louis.
  • (19) We had five sets of contestants and we got it down to four, so one fewer round in the show, which meant there was much more time for us to muck about.
  • (20) But under all the scars and muck, there's a soulfulness to McCann's performance.