What's the difference between ooze and silt?

Ooze


Definition:

  • (n.) Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.
  • (n.) Soft flow; spring.
  • (n.) The liquor of a tan vat.
  • (n.) To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.
  • (n.) Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.
  • (v. t.) To cause to ooze.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The time of doubling of the bacterial number can be calculated approximately by counting bacterial cells in the ooze layer every day.
  • (2) Eurozone leaders ooze confidence that Greece’s financial collapse could be easily weathered by the rest of the currency bloc.
  • (3) The paper presents data concerning the activity of microflora in water and ooze deposits of lakes of the Yaroslavl Region.
  • (4) Of 193 patients suffering from peptic ulcer bleeding identified by emergency gastrointestinoscopy, 52 patients were found to have bleeding gastric ulcer (spurt 5, active oozing 9, fresh clot 11, black clot 17, protruding vessel 4, and clear base without stigmata 6); the other 141 had bleeding duodenal ulcer (spurt 5, active oozing 26, fresh clot 43, black clot 23, protruding vessel 15, and clear base without stigmata 31).
  • (5) A search for an intact blister is always warranted when erosions, oozing, or crusts are noted.
  • (6) Fungi of the class Pyrenomycetes (Ascomycotina) form a morphological series ranging from those that shoot ascospores (sexual spores) forcibly from the ascus (spore sac) to fungi that ooze ascospores or have no obvious mechanism for ascospore release.
  • (7) Microorganisms were studied by capillary microscopy in the surface layer of ooze and in the bottom layer of water in the ore field of the lake Krasnoye.
  • (8) Jamie Vardy, oozing belief, headed the ball smartly to set it into his path before sweeping sweetly past Cech.
  • (9) In the case with Ehlers-Danlos, the disease presented rupioid plaque-like erythematous oozing lesions which seem somewhat different from those of the photodermatosis yet known.
  • (10) Sixteen patients with RPE ooze were followed for a mean of 4.5 years without treatment.
  • (11) But the British prime minister oozed schadenfreude with the result, received strong support from the Germans, the Dutch and the Scandinavians and looked pleased with the stalemate, portraying himself as the scourge of bloated Brussels, the guardian of the British and the European taxpayer.
  • (12) The dialogue is perfect: the broker waxes inanely on ("A lovely space"), and the prospective buyers ooze gratitude at being granted a viewing.
  • (13) The population densities in this surface sediment at two nearby stations, one with a predominantly mineral stream bed and the other an organic ooze, did not differ significantly.
  • (14) These differences in haemodynamics give rise to less arterial, and notably less venous oozing of blood from the surgical area.
  • (15) If the incision is kept negatively charged through application of an electrical current, coagulation at the site will be inhibited and the wound will ooze for many hours.
  • (16) Big names frighten them on their doorsteps, oozing bogus bonhomie.
  • (17) It seems to be under constant threat of being swallowed by the toxic mud that oozes between the tents and huts that house approximately 6,000 human beings.
  • (18) Caine’s Guardian reader may be decrepit and disillusioned but still oozes wit and discerning taste.
  • (19) In parallel the prognosis of oozing bleeding improved.
  • (20) A closed drain, i.e., the Robinson drainage system, can be kept in place for at least 12-24 h to check the postoperative ooze.

Silt


Definition:

  • (n.) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
  • (v. t.) To choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud.
  • (v. i.) To flow through crevices; to percolate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Corthine said he had told Cameron 3m tonnes of silt needed to be removed from the Parrett to get it flowing properly again.
  • (2) Adsorption and movement of carbofuran (a systemic nematicide) were studied using two Indian soils (clay loam and silt loam) of alluvial origin.
  • (3) Residue content of water samples is normally one-tenth to one-hundredth that of silt, but is much higher during periods of heavy runoff.
  • (4) Dredging creates turbidity in the water that reduces the amount of light reaching the coral, affecting photosynthesis, while silt that settles on the coral interferes with its ability to feed itself.
  • (5) As the silt cleared, we found ourselves on a flat plain of yellow-tinged mud, inscribed with pits, burrows and tracks by species that eke out their existence on the detritus that settles from above.
  • (6) Dam reservoirs trap silt, which decreases their storage capacity and reduces power generation.
  • (7) Treated seeds were also planted in pots containing Nile silt for testing the efficiency of rhizobia as affected by the fungicide and the pelleting treatments.
  • (8) The larval lamprey is a filter-feeder who dwells in the silt of freshwater streams and the adult is an active predator found in large lakes or the sea.
  • (9) At Pelican Island, a 2.5 mile strip in the Barataria Bay, crews used 2.5m cubic yards of sand and silt mined from the Gulf of Mexico to build dunes and marshes, and rolled out protective fences around newly planted grasses.
  • (10) Their dams slow rivers down, reducing scouring and erosion, and improve water quality by holding back silt.
  • (11) Before the dam the closure was enforced for about 40 days, during which the canals were closed and dried up, and the silt deposited on their beds during the Nile flood dredged out together with the snails and aquatic weeds.
  • (12) The Davis family benefited when a group of locals shifted 15 tons of sand and silt from their garden.
  • (13) Equilibrium adsorption coefficient (K) values measured using a batch-slurry technique follows the order clay loam greater than silt loam soil.
  • (14) Only 2% of what is flowing through the sewers is sewage; the rest is water and accumulated debris – the vast amount of water you flush down the toilet and all the water and silt that seeps into the sewers when it rains.
  • (15) The soil is so called "Terra Roxa" (red soil) and in its physicochemical composition there is a great amount of iron oxides, silica (silt, agril laceous material), aluminium, manganese, organic compounds.
  • (16) The use of the selective media with gentamicin for plating out silt substrates containing mainly Micromonospora had practically no effect on the increase in the number of the Micromonospora cultures grown.
  • (17) The flood cycles passed on the salts that accumulated from evaporation and passed new layers of silt onto the farmlands around the marshes.
  • (18) Once you have started dredging, "it must be repeated after every extreme flood, as the river silts up again".
  • (19) "A silt fence ensures that mud down deep doesn't seep through," said Hidehiko Nishiyama, Japan's spokesman on nuclear safety.
  • (20) It was shown that Micromonospora predominated in moist soils and especially in such substrates as silts where their content with respect to the all actinomycetous isolates amounted to 88.9 per cent.