(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.
Turbid
Definition:
(a.) Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine.
(a.) Disturbed; confused; disordered.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were found out one-sided relations for instance concerning the proportion of transaminases, thymol turbidity test as well as creatinine to the erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
(2) This paper describes the properties and use of a fiber optic probe as an attachment to a spectrophotometer and its use for measurements in solutions and turbid suspensions.
(3) Depriving the mutant of glucosamine resulted in a rapid loss of viability of the cells, followed by a decrease in the turbidity of the culture.
(4) This test is a rapid, inexpensive alternative to current 48- to 72-h methods in which broth turbidity is used as the end point.
(5) All phase II-contaminated TPN solutions showed visual turbidity after 96 hr, and all test organisms were recovered and identified.
(6) Continuous measurements were made of the turbidity of growing cultures of Escherichia coli, Streptococcus mutans, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
(7) However, the effects of temperature on the rate of assembly above 37 degrees C were opposite to the effects seen at temperatures below 37 degrees C. In the range of 37-41 degrees C, the turbidity propagation rate decreased markedly with temperature.
(8) In addition, control myosin synthetic thick filament length as well as turbidity in solution, measured by light scattering, were twice as large as those of the myopathic heart myosin.
(9) The turbidities are remarkably high when one considers the low concentrations of protein and nucleic acid materials that are used.
(10) It is therefore essential to take into consideration the pH and turbidity of the water before applying molluscicidal treatment.
(11) With increasing hydrostatic pressure, the turbidity of an alpha-crystallin solution increases exponentially to a plateau at about 6000-8000 psi; upon release of pressure, the samples slowly return to their original turbidity level.
(12) Turbidity curves, measured following addition of thrombin to purified fibrinogen Milano IV, both in presence of calcium or EDTA, were markedly delayed.
(13) The liposomal solubilization, which was monitored by turbidity measurements or by determination of phospholipid sedimentability, was accompanied by the formation of a phospholipid-protein complex similar or identical to the one we previously reported to be formed from sonicated liposomes of egg phosphatidylcholine (Scherphof, G., Roerdink, F., Waite, M. and Parks, J.
(14) The decrease in turbidity at 400 nm, resulting from the uptake of the micro-organisms by the neutrophils, was measured for 20-30 min and the area under the curves was taken as a measure of the opsonizing capacity of the serum or the phagocytic capacity of the neutrophils.
(15) After removal of the methyl ester on the side chain of Glu, these polymers exhibited a remarkable pH dependence of the temperature for their inverse temperature transitions, which are followed as turbidity development at 300 nm.
(16) The modified medium (MBLA) is less turbid, less particulate, and easier to prepare than BLA.
(17) In death from intracranial injuries and asphyxia the strong turbidity developed earlier than in the other types of death.
(18) These results indicate that visually clear supernates may show optical turbidity; the turbidity is likely due to triglyceride-rich particles, which contain cholesterol; the fall in cholesterol with ultrafiltration is due to removal of these floating particles and some adsorbance of HDL particles to the filters.
(19) A deposit obtained by high-speed centrifugation could be separated into a heavy ribosome layer and a light turbid layer.
(20) Semen samples were analyzed for pH, volume, turbidity, liquidity, viability by stain exclusion and hypo-osmotic stress, sperm density and count per ejaculate, motility using a videotape technique, morphology, and morphometry.