Look up: Ooze

1. ooze
   Sediment of fine texture consisting mainly of organic matter found on the ocean floor at depths greater than 2,000 m/6,600 ft. Several kinds of ooze exist, each named after its constituents. Siliceous ooze is composed of the silica shells of tiny marine plants (diatoms) and animals (radiolarians). Calcareous ooze is formed from the calcite shel...
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2. Ooze
   Adhesive moving out of ends of rolls or stacks of sheets causing ends to feel sticky and possible causing material to block.
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3. ooze
   in Italy,Spain and U.K.vegetable or chrome tanned skin of bovine origin,generally calf,with a very soft glove-like feel and a natural grain sometimes accentuated by boarding Category: Various industries and crafts • a very fine-textured pelagic deposit, which accumulates on the abyssal z...
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4. Ooze
   Ooze noun [ Middle English wose , Anglo-Saxon wase dirt, mire, mud, akin to w...s juice, ooze, Icelandic vās wetness, Old High German waso turf, sod, German wasen .] 1. Soft mud or slime; earth ...
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5. Ooze
   Ooze intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Oozed ; present participle & verbal noun Oozing .] [ Prov. Eng. weeze , wooz . See Ooze , no...
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6. Ooze
   Ooze transitive verb To cause to ooze. Alex. Smith.
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7. Ooze
   Ooze noun (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 ma...
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8. ooze
   1. Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure. 'My son i' the ooze is bedded.' ... 2. Soft flow; spring. ... 3. The liquor of a tan vat. ... Origin: OE. Wose, AS. Wase dirt, mire, mud, akin to ws juice, ooze, Icel. Vas wetness, OHG. Waso turf, sod, G. Wasen. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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9. Ooze
   • (n.) 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 skelet...
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10. ooze
    pelagic (deep-sea) sediment of which at least 30 percent is composed of the skeletal remains of microscopic floating organisms. Oozes are basically ... [1 related articles]
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11. ooze
    
    • any thick messy substance
    • the process of seeping
    
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12. OOZE
    Object oriented extension of Z. 'Object Orientation in Z', S. Stepney et al eds, Springer 1992.
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13. Ooze
    `Ooze` may refer to: Published games: In roleplaying games such as Dungeons & Dragons, Everquest, and World of Warcraft, is a creature type, including such monsters as the gelatinous cube, slimes, jellies, puddings, and similar unintelligent, amorphous blobs --> Other fiction: See also:
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14. Ooze
    (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, an `ooze` is a type of creature. This category includes such monsters as slimes, jellies, deadly puddings, and similar mindless, amorphous blobs. They can be used by Dungeon Masters as enemies or allies o...
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