Definition of "ooze" in Englisch

noun

1. Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.

2. An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.

3. (obsolete) Secretion, humour.

4. (obsolete) Juice, sap.

verb

1. (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To be secreted or slowly leak.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.

noun

1. Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.

2. (oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.

3. A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.