MUD


Meaning of MUD in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

mud pie

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

clear

What this really means, of course, is still as clear as mud .

deep

It was terrible weather, stormy and wet, with deep mud in the streets.

But Antley let his horse settle in third and wait for the leaders to tire in the deep mud .

Outside, the rain Courses in cart-ruts down the deep mud lane.

The upper path was deep in mud: the lower one was now a stream.

The very sturdy rootstock is embedded deep in the mud .

soft

The man spun round so swiftly that George was taken aback and tripped, falling on to the soft mud .

The soft new mud automatically eliminated the need for plowing and fertilization.

It is also a very useful rig for fishing over soft mud and weed.

They followed the stream, their feet quiet on the soft mud , the boot soles leaving patterns in damp places.

thick

Heavy rain clouds gathered and the roads next morning were clogged with thick , heavy mud .

She landed flat on her face in thick mud .

Some are very inaccessible and he has to wade through thick mud to get at them.

The fallen clothes were as difficult to wade through as thick mud .

Hundreds of fans at the Reading Rock Festival were stuck with their cars and vans in thick mud last night.

There was thick mud underfoot; it stuck to the soles of her shoes.

As he stumbled around the far side of the breakwater, the hard sand was replaced by thick mud .

■ NOUN

brick

However, even disintegrated mud brick can help to assess rebuilding phases in Penivian villages or Near Eastern tells.

Even today many members of these tribes live in multi-occupation dwellings made from sun-dried mud bricks known as adobe.

Archaeologists found it in a boat-shaped tomb 29m long, made out of mud bricks and buried deep in the sand.

The ground was covered with crumbling mud bricks , heaps of cracked white stone.

flat

Sea-birds, like snowflakes, turned lazily far out over the mud flats ....

It is one of merged meadowlands ending in the great saltings and mud flats and tidal pools near the restless sea.

In some areas, such as a Donna Nook and Theddlethorpe, the sand and mud flats are incredibly vast.

It is, in fact a large, dusty mud flat .

Wading birds collect great quantities of small molluscs from sandbanks and mud flats when the tide retreats.

Cardiff was, of course, built on mud flats , and nature takes a long time to change.

If the mud flats freeze over, it is impossible for them to find sufficient food.

At Grangemouth docks were dug out of the mud flats .

hut

To our western eyes as he stood in his raggy, holed clothes in front of his mud hut he would appear very poor.

Cataracts launched them downriver before they had time to think; waves like mud huts threw them eight feet into the air.

In a mud hut on an endless plain, she sorted through the bones of unrecognizable animals.

Its architecture consists of round, thatched mud huts set off by straw fences.

The geography of evil: tunnels and bamboo thickets and mud huts and graves.

The mud hut that calls itself a hospital contains nothing but flies.

Kamilo said her mud hut had been entered just a few days earlier by thieves who stole her only bedsheet.

slide

The largest of them, Rocinha, somehow houses 60,000 people in tiny shacks that are regularly engulfed in mud slides .

Have you ever seen mud slide ?

wall

It was cold, too, an icy wind sneaking in through the thatch and through gaps in the mud wall .

This study should generate precise data about the thermal characteristics of mud walls .

They had strengthened structurally weak areas around doors and windows with layers of fired bricks set into the mud walls .

■ VERB

build

The evidence suggests that almost all the village houses in earlier days were built of dried mud with thatched roofs.

She and her husband and six children are struggling to build a one-room mud hut on the grounds of the camp.

In common with other members of the swallow family, house martins build elaborate mud nests precariously slung beneath the eaves of a house.

Flamingos build nest mounds of mud and lay but one egg.

bury

Once more the three men buried themselves in the mud and waited until another passing cloud allowed them to advance a few more yards.

His feet were bare: his trainers were still buried in the mud .

Usually the plant has its rootstock deeply buried in the mud or tank medium.

They can bury themselves in mud during droughts and live in a cocoon made out of mucus from their skin.

cake

The hand was caked in mud , the fingers hooked into a claw.

The left side of her face is caked with bloodied mud .

She took the can in her gloved hand, which was caked in black mud .

At noon, Ron Malcolm appeared at the door, wearing boots caked with dried mud and a red baseball cap.

His boots were still caked with mud , but they could wait.

Bodies caked in mud , the rescuers gather for a debriefing session; up sound.

cover

Movie sniper Jude Law and Rachel Weisz are covered in mud but still have their sights set on desire.

Anne was not hurt, but her hands, face and overcoat were covered with mud .

She was soaked and covered in mud , her dress torn in several places.

He was sitting in a new white Jensen sports car that was covered in mud , with a sensational blonde, sensational.

When everywhere and everything seems covered in mud - especially your horse - it's hard to keep up appearances.

He too was covered in mud and green dirt, but the features that they almost concealed were boyishly pleasant.

As little girls returned covered in dust and mud a parental boycott developed.

The ground was covered with crumbling mud bricks, heaps of cracked white stone.

drag

Killion and Richards, half undressed and filthy, were carrying Church; his feet were dragging in the mud .

He tried to drag himself through the mud but he only sank more deeply into it.

dry

Anaximenes noticed that when river-beds dry up, the mud cracks.

They are about as strong as dried clods of mud .

A list of names and numbers was painted on a board, nailed into the dried mud of the hut.

Wall of dried mud , a roof of interlaced palm leaves and the only entrance a low door...

Beam of light on my fingers, white with dried mud .

Jeri and I thrashed ahead, following subsidiary ruts in the dried mud , and then tire marks in the grass.

At noon, Ron Malcolm appeared at the door, wearing boots caked with dried mud and a red baseball cap.

fill

At one time, the space between the timbers would have been filled with mud and straw.

Now imagine the room is filled with mud .

But as ships have become larger and the rivers have filled with mud and silt, their functions as ports have declined.

lie

In the police cells the Masai warrior, Tepilit, lies on the mud floor.

Four I-beams lay criss-crossed in the mud .

For Fedorov was still supposed to believe him to be lying in the mud at the bottom of the Danube.

We bailed out, they took off, and I was lying in the mud .

He looked down and saw his colleague still lying in the mud , not daring to move.

He just lay silent in the mud and glared at Mr Linley.

Yes, there was certainly a figure lying in the mud .

But a piece of bread lying in almost liquid mud will demand a more prolonged cleaning process.

live

The pharaohs lived in mud palaces but were buried in monumental stone edifices.

They lived in mud houses without electricity or water, revelling in the glory of the mission.

Some bacteria that live in mud on Earth use chains of magnetite as tiny compasses to determine which way is up.

Tubifex are very thin, long red aquatic larvae which live in the mud of slow flowing rivers and ponds.

scrape

Teresa scraped the mud off her boots, then stepped out of them.

Finally I took a flat rock and got down on all fours and scraped the mud off each wheel.

She scraped the mud away and revealed a piece of scrimshaw.

Then I scraped the mud off again, and we drove another revolution.

stand

Implexion had stood in the mud of the canyon, the pathetic tents being demolished around him by his militia.

But he saw her standing in the mud , feet apart, rope in hand.

stick

If he'd gone right down, he'd have stuck in the mud , and been out of the tide.

I was stuck in the mud , and so was every-body else, and we were trying to get out.

One day while sailing down the Mississippi the Diamond Joe became stuck in mud .

turn

But then it turned to mud - horrible stuff that sucked at my feet, and stank.

Its entire purpose is somehow to turn mud into a cement-like material - a material with a multi-national answer to housing problems.

The rain had also turned the city to mud , not the usual red mud but a curious purple shade.

Roads were turned to mud by days of rain and Fiorio had the additional hardship of a bubbling radiator to contend with.

The rain which would turn their campground to mud , and fill the cisterns of Famagusta.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

as clear as mud

Joe's directions are as clear as mud.

What this really means, of course, is still as clear as mud.

drag sb's name through the mud

sb's name is mud

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a mud hut

Hayley scraped the dried mud off her boots.

Remove mud from your bike by spraying with a hose.

Their expensive riding jackets were covered in mud .

There's mud all over the carpet.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But he saw her standing in the mud , feet apart, rope in hand.

Cultivation: A medium containing plenty of mud or clay or detritus is essential.

Flora and I were walking through the palm grove, on mud paths between tiny squares of pale green barley.

He swung his legs over the fence, but his right boot got caught and he tumbled into the mud .

I felt the mud under my hands, then quickly took a pinch into my mouth.

The crumbled porcelain of a third lay embedded like fossilized prehistoric remains long entombed in silt and mud .

The posies of corn had been trampled in the mud .

The tide was making, although the boats still rested on the mud .

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