What's the difference between mud and muddy?

Mud


Definition:

  • (n.) Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
  • (v. t.) To bury in mud.
  • (v. t.) To make muddy or turbid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
  • (2) The possible occupational cause of the disease, as more solvents in the mud have the structure of aromatic hydrocarbons is discussed.
  • (3) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
  • (4) This anterior-like cell preparation contained approximately 80% neutral red-stained cells, none of which carried a surface antigen specific to prespore cells (MUD-1 antigen).
  • (5) vittatus eggs laid on damp mud were placed in dry rockpools for 10 weeks and kept dry for a further 6 weeks in the laboratory.
  • (6) Hyflosupercel, Kaolin, and marine mud increased the stability of the enzyme.
  • (7) Evidence is presented that there is an association between tropical ulcer and exposure to mud or slow moving fresh water.
  • (8) A Mud(Ap, lac) prophage has been shown to be inserted into the ptsH gene of E. coli.
  • (9) As BHP’s share price in Australia pushed near 10-year lows on Thursday, the government in Brasilia has become increasingly concerned over the rising death toll and contaminated mud flowing through two states as a result of the disaster.
  • (10) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
  • (11) However, the inhabitants of Babaji showed little interest in meeting the British, with compound after mud-walled compound abandoned.
  • (12) Spending time with the baby elephants was very special; the best bit was watching them have a mud bath and occasionally joining in!
  • (13) Diluted elements of his style were all over the pop charts: Sweet, Mud, Alvin Stardust.
  • (14) Here's more details and reaction: Marco Incerti (@MarcoInBxl) #Berlusconi more than 50 trials.. blabla... etc, judges have drawn my name in the mud, took up my time, my patience, huge economic resources September 18, 2013 Marco Incerti (@MarcoInBxl) #Berlusconi , ridicolous sentence to 4 years, for tax evasion that I didn't commit, and even if I did would be minor.
  • (15) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
  • (16) He wrote: “The NHS in Wales will not be the victim of any Conservative party ploy to drag its reputation through the mud for entirely partisan political purposes.
  • (17) Finally, induced Mud-P22 insertions package more than 100 kb of genomic DNA adjacent to one side of the insertion.
  • (18) It was a successful breeding season for avocets - black and white wading birds - at Orford Ness in Suffolk, despite a lack of mud for feeding.
  • (19) Join a guided mud walk from the mainland to one of the islands off the coast.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sisters play in the mud after rare rain at a town camp on the outskirts of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.

Muddy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.
  • (superl.) Turbid with mud; as, muddy water.
  • (superl.) Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure.
  • (superl.) Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague.
  • (superl.) Not clear or bright.
  • (v. t.) To soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To cloud; to make dull or heavy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On it rests the small village of Dholera – a cluster of houses with thatched roofs, muddy roads, and acres of flat, fertile land surrounding them.
  • (2) Huang Ren Zhong's striped parasol stands out against the muddy cliff of excavated earth.
  • (3) The other is to muddy the truth, and thereby weaken any international response.
  • (4) Muddy lines on buildings show how high the water rose.
  • (5) So I decided to literally track him down, the same way I would track an animal: from muddy footprints, to wet footprints, reading any clue I could in the undergrowth.
  • (6) Girls continue to fetch polluted water from muddy puddles and rivers, walking past broken hand-pumps and schools they would be attending if they had the time.
  • (7) Mighty Deer Stalker Tough 10km off-road (and very muddy) run in Peeblesshire, Scotland, which starts at dusk.
  • (8) It is counterintuitive, but terrorism is a really muddy concept.
  • (9) Never mind that it muddies the debate (the Le Pen dynasty and the millionaire Nigel Farage somehow turn out to be the real victims in all this) and trivialises the very people to whom the quack is pretending to genuflect.
  • (10) Six years after Rover's collapse, there is certainly plenty of open space at the centre of this formerly thriving town: hundreds of acres of flattened muddy fields where 6,000 skilled workers once toiled.
  • (11) Later still, the local police chief was removed as primary responder, but he still managed to muddy the waters (which the Brown family calls character assassination) by first releasing video of a black robber and then admitting it had nothing to do with Brown's shooting.
  • (12) They meticulously slotted together details to give a painstaking picture of the events that led up to the girls' disappearance, and then away from it; the innocent before and the nightmarish after; the last known seconds of the girls' meandering progress through familiar streets, arms linked, and then the frantic, increasingly heart-rending search that came to an end when the naked and decomposing - and, as we now know, partially burned - bodies of the two friends were found lying together, limbs tangled, at the bottom of a deep and muddy ditch, where the nettles grew tall.
  • (13) Further genetic explorations will, no doubt, provide clarity to the somewhat muddy picture of both etiology and complications.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An example of a rare Bechstein’s bat roost in a partially hollow oak tree, Finemere Wood, Buckinghamshire, ancient wood and nature reserve next to HS2 Photograph: Patrick Barkham for the Guardian After Prideaux dropped me off in a neighbour’s muddy farmyard, I climbed a hill into Finemere Woods, an ancient woodland owned by Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust .
  • (15) It has what Hab's design director, Isabel Allen, calls a "muddy, soggy landscape" which has the added benefit that it is fun for children to play in it.
  • (16) Top Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava was commissioned to design a sublime new station, like the one in nearby Liège, but this costly project won’t be finished until late 2015 at the earliest, so many of the expected two million visitors will have to pick their way around a muddy construction site.
  • (17) Click here to view video Dean Cundey, director of photography Romancing the Stone had been a very muddy, arduous shoot, so Back to the Future was simple by comparison – most of it was shot on the lot at Universal, or in neighbourhoods in Pasadena.
  • (18) If you start attacking Google, keep attacking Google – don't muddy the message by changing tack.
  • (19) Is democracy aided by another Conservative muddying the democratic waters?
  • (20) Most of the patients gave a history of bathing in muddy stagnant pools of water.