Definition of Ooze

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Definition of Ooze

Ooze

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.

Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.

Soft flow; spring.

The liquor of a tan vat.

To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.

Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.

To cause to ooze.

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Ooze Quotations

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
Vladimir Nabokov

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
Italo Calvino

I remember laughing an inordinate amount of time. Setting up scenes that involve ooze coming out basements, or pigs' heads flying through windows is really fun. How could you not laugh?
Margot Kidder

Ooze Translations

ooze in German is sickern, Schlamm
ooze in Spanish is rezumar
ooze in Swedish is sippra

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