Puddle

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A small pool of water, especially rainwater.
  • noun. A small pool of a liquid.
  • noun. A tempered paste of wet clay and sand that serves as waterproofing when dry.
  • intransitive verb. To make muddy.
  • intransitive verb. To work (clay or sand) into a thick watertight paste.
  • intransitive verb. To process (impure metal) by puddling.
  • intransitive verb. To splash or dabble in or as if in a pool of liquid.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A pudgy, ill-shaped, awkward person.
  • noun. A small pool of water, especially of dirty rain-water; a muddy plash.
  • noun. Clay to which a little water has been added and which has then been tempered, so as to make it homogeneous and increase its plasticity. It is used in a great variety of ways when a watertight stopping is required. It is also called puddling.
  • To make foul or muddy; stir up the mud or sediment in; hence, to befoul in a figurative sense.
  • To work puddle into; render water-tight by means of puddle. See puddle, n., 2.
  • To convert (pig-iron) into wrought-iron by stirring while subjected to intense heat, in order to expel the oxygen and carbon. See puddling, n., 2.
  • To make a stir, as in a pool.
  • noun. A mixture of soil or mold and water forming thin mud, in which the roots of young trees are dipped to retard drying out during transplanting.
  • To dip (the roots of young trees) in puddle or thin mud.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To make a dirty stir.
  • noun. A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.
  • noun. Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water.
  • noun. a low or worthless poet.
  • transitive verb. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
  • transitive verb. To make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to apply puddle to.
  • transitive verb. To subject to the process of puddling, as iron, so as to convert it from the condition of cast iron to that of wrought iron.
  • transitive verb. steel made directly from cast iron by a modification of the puddling process.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A small pool of water, usually on a path or road.
  • noun. Stagnant or polluted water.
  • noun. A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
  • verb. To form a puddle.
  • verb. To play or splash in a puddle.
  • verb. To process iron by means of puddling.
  • verb. To line a canal with puddle (clay).
  • verb. To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. subject to puddling or form by puddling
  • verb. wade or dabble in a puddle
  • noun. a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry
  • verb. work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud
  • verb. dip into mud before planting
  • verb. make a puddle by splashing water
  • verb. eliminate urine
  • verb. mess around, as in a liquid or paste
  • noun. something resembling a pool of liquid
  • noun. a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
  • verb. make into a puddle
  • verb. mix up or confuse
  • Word Usage
    "If I get this right, Ron Levin apparently did not bother to learn that the photo he thought was a flat portion of the Martian surface with a puddle is actually a photo of a sloping cliff inside a crater."
    Form
    puddled  puddling  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Udell  befuddle  cuddle  huddle  muddle  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blob  blotch  blur  bucket  ditch  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form