ooze

6 definitions found

ooze - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Ooze \Ooze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Oozed; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Oozing.] [Prov. Eng. weeze, wooz. See Ooze, n.]
     1. To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the
        pores of a substance or through small openings.
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              The latent rill, scare oozing through the grass.
                                                    --Thomson.
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     2. Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed
        out; his courage oozed out.
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  Ooze \Ooze\, v. t.
     To cause to ooze. --Alex. Smith.
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  Ooze \Ooze\, n. [OE. wose, AS. wase dirt, mire, mud, akin to w?s
     juice, ooze, Icel. v[=a]s wetness, OHG. waso turf, sod, G.
     wasen.]
     1. Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or
        easily yield to pressure. "My son i' the ooze is bedded."
        --Shak.
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     2. Soft flow; spring. --Prior.
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     3. The liquor of a tan vat.
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     4. (Oceanography) A soft deposit covering large areas of the
        ocean bottom, composed largely or mainly of the shells or
        other hard parts of minute organisms, as Foraminifera,
        Radiolaria, and diatoms. The radiolarian ooze occurring
        in many places in very deep water is composed mainly of
        the siliceous skeletons of radiolarians, calcareous matter
        being dissolved by the lage percentage of carbon dioxide
        in the water at these depths.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

ooze - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  ooze
      n 1: any thick, viscous matter [syn: sludge, slime, goo,
           goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze]
      2: the process of seeping [syn: seepage, ooze, oozing]
      v 1: pass gradually or leak through or as if through small
           openings [syn: seep, ooze]
      2: release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; "exude sweat
         through the pores" [syn: exude, exudate, transude,
         ooze out, ooze]

ooze - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  OOZE
  
     Object oriented extension of Z.  "Object Orientation in Z", S.
     Stepney et al eds, Springer 1992.
  

ooze - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "ooze":
     bleed, clay, discharge, drain, drip, effuse, effusion, emit,
     excrete, excretion, exfiltrate, exfiltration, extravasate,
     extravasation, exudate, exudation, exude, filter, filtering,
     filtrate, filtration, give off, glop, goo, goop, gumbo, gunk,
     leach, leaching, leak, lixiviate, lixiviation, mire, muck, mud,
     oozing, percolate, percolating, percolation, reek, scum, secrete,
     sediment, seep, seepage, sew, silt, slab, slime, slip, slob, slop,
     slosh, sludge, slush, splosh, squash, strain, straining, sweat,
     swill, transpire, transudation, transude, trickle, weep, weeping