Meaning of "mud" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MUD

Probably from Middle Low German mudde; compare Middle High German mot swamp, mud, Swedish modd slush.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF MUD

mud  [mʌd]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MUD

Mud is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb mud in English.

WHAT DOES MUD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Mud

Mud is a mixture of water and any combination of soil, silt, and clay. Ancient mud deposits harden over geological time to form sedimentary rock such as shale or mudstone. When geological deposits of mud are formed in estuaries the resultant layers are termed bay muds. Mud is closely related to slurry and sediment. In the construction industry, mud is a fluid material used to coat or adhere together items that dries hard such as plaster, stucco, concrete or other similar substances. Mud that is mostly clay, or a mixture of clay and sand may be used for ceramics, of which one form is the common fired brick, or dried with the inclusion of straw reinforcing to form an unfired adobe brick. Adobe walls are frequently finished with a mud plaster, seen at right. Such buildings must be protected from groundwater, usually by building upon a masonry, fired brick, rock or rubble foundation, and also from wind-driven rain in damp climates, usually by deep roof overhangs.

Definition of mud in the English dictionary

The first definition of mud in the dictionary is a fine-grained soft wet deposit that occurs on the ground after rain, at the bottom of ponds, lakes, etc. Other definition of mud is slander or defamation. Mud is also to soil or cover with mud.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MUD

PRESENT

Present

I mud

you mud

he/she/it muds

we mud

you mud

they mud

Present continuous

I am mudding

you are mudding

he/she/it is mudding

we are mudding

you are mudding

they are mudding

Present perfect

I have mudded

you have mudded

he/she/it has mudded

we have mudded

you have mudded

they have mudded

Present perfect continuous

I have been mudding

you have been mudding

he/she/it has been mudding

we have been mudding

you have been mudding

they have been mudding

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I mudded

you mudded

he/she/it mudded

we mudded

you mudded

they mudded

Past continuous

I was mudding

you were mudding

he/she/it was mudding

we were mudding

you were mudding

they were mudding

Past perfect

I had mudded

you had mudded

he/she/it had mudded

we had mudded

you had mudded

they had mudded

Past perfect continuous

I had been mudding

you had been mudding

he/she/it had been mudding

we had been mudding

you had been mudding

they had been mudding

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will mud

you will mud

he/she/it will mud

we will mud

you will mud

they will mud

Future continuous

I will be mudding

you will be mudding

he/she/it will be mudding

we will be mudding

you will be mudding

they will be mudding

Future perfect

I will have mudded

you will have mudded

he/she/it will have mudded

we will have mudded

you will have mudded

they will have mudded

Future perfect continuous

I will have been mudding

you will have been mudding

he/she/it will have been mudding

we will have been mudding

you will have been mudding

they will have been mudding

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would mud

you would mud

he/she/it would mud

we would mud

you would mud

they would mud

Conditional continuous

I would be mudding

you would be mudding

he/she/it would be mudding

we would be mudding

you would be mudding

they would be mudding

Conditional perfect

I would have mud

you would have mud

he/she/it would have mud

we would have mud

you would have mud

they would have mud

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been mudding

you would have been mudding

he/she/it would have been mudding

we would have been mudding

you would have been mudding

they would have been mudding

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you mud
we let´s mud
you mud

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to mud

Past participle

mudded

Present Participle

mudding

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «MUD»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «mud» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of mud

clay · dirt · gloop · mire · ooze · silt · slime · slob · sludge

TRANSLATION OF MUD

Find out the translation of mud to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of mud from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mud» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 泥泞
• Translator English - Spanish: barro
• English: mud
• Translator English - Hindi: कीचड़
• Translator English - Arabic: طِيـنٌ
• Translator English - Russian: грязь
• Translator English - Portuguese: lama
• Translator English - Bengali: কাদা
• Translator English - French: boue
• Translator English - Malay: Lumpur
• Translator English - German: Schlamm
• Translator English - Japanese: 泥
• Translator English - Korean: 진흙
• Translator English - Javanese: lendhut
• Translator English - Vietnamese: bùn
• Translator English - Tamil: சேறு
• Translator English - Marathi: चिखल
• Translator English - Turkish: çamur
• Translator English - Italian: fango
• Translator English - Polish: błoto
• Translator English - Ukrainian: бруд
• Translator English - Romanian: noroi
• Translator English - Greek: λάσπη
• Translator English - Afrikaans: modder
• Translator English - Swedish: lera
• Translator English - Norwegian: søle

10 QUOTES WITH «MUD»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word mud.

1

Saint Ambrose

Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.

2

Beck

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

3

Regina Brett

Almost every month, I have a day where I get stuck in the mud of me. I used to blame hormones and PMS. After I hit 50, I blamed the lack of hormones. But men get stuck, too, so it must simply be the human condition.

4

Quentin Bryce

Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.

5

Solomon Burke

You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud.

6

Leo Burnett

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

7

Corey Clark

'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

8

Corey Clark

At the end of the day, it is about the album and book and also about setting the record straight, because 'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years. So that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

9

Brian Clough

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.

10

Joseph Conrad

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUD»

Discover the use of mud in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mud and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Mud Puddle

If Jule Ann sits under a tree or in a sandbox, or even wears a raincoat on a sunny day, the mud puddle will follow her and make her dirty, until one day she battles the persistent puddle with two bars of soap, chasing it away forever.

Robert N. Munsch, Sami Suomalainen, 1995

Mud, Sweat and Tears

Now, for the first time, Bear tells the story of his action-packed life. Gripping, moving and wildly exhilarating, Mud, Sweat and Tears is a must-read for adrenalin junkies and armchair adventurers alike.

Bear Grylls, 2011

Behind Mud Walls, 1930-1960

For themselves they have mud platforms at the front of their houses where they do their chores and sit with friends, smoking and talking. Or the men of related households share a; baithak, or "sitting place" under a big neem tree. A man does ...

William Henricks Wiser, Charlotte Viall Wiser, 1989

Building with Stabilized Mud

However, the desirable practices have not been placed on a firm footing due to sporadic nature of the constructions.

K. S. Jagadish, 2007

Mud Racing

Tire-squealing action motivates even the most reluctant readers in this high-interest series. Exhilarating photography captures the intensity of racing, while easy-to-read text delivers the details readers want to know.

Jeff Savage, 1995

A Lotus Grows In The Mud

This is Goldie's chance to talk about everything from anger and fear, to love, compassion, friendship, and the many challenges she's faced in her career.

Goldie Hawn, 2012

Foreign Mud: Being an Account of the Opium Imbroglio at ...

Based upon selected anecdotal stories written by British observers, this text reconstructs the events of the illegal opium trade in Canton in the 1830s and the war between Britain and China that followed.

Maurice Collis, 1946

Mud Is Cake

A brother and sister find that when they use their imagination mud can become cake and they themselves can become almost anything, in a rhyming celebration of the imagination by the author of Riding Freedom.

Pam Ryan, 2002

Mud Volcanoes, Geodynamics and Seismicity: Proceedings of ...

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Mud Volcanism, Geodynamics and Seismicity, Baku, Azerbaijan, from 20 to 22 May 2003 Giovanni Martinelli, Behrouz Panahi. FROM GEOPHYSICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL ...

Giovanni Martinelli, Behrouz Panahi, 2006

Mississippi Mud

Now updated for 2010 with a new ending and the latest trial information! “Edward Humes's lucid and unadorned prose admirably suits this complex story of venality and betrayal. . . . Mississippi Mud reads like a well-constructed mystery novel.

Edward Humes, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MUD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mud is used in the context of the following news items.

Race results: 1-800-CAR-CASH Mud Summer Classic NCWTS race …

Dirt racing specialist Christopher Bell and Bobby Pierce put on quiet the show during Wednesday night's 1-800-CAR-CASH Mud Summer ... «FOXSports.com, Jul 15»

Curious Cows Help Save Seal Pup Stuck in Mud After Swept by Tide …

A birdwatcher at Frampton Marsh Nature Reserve in Lincolnshire, U.K., says he didn't find any birds through his telescope, but rather, a much ... «ABC News, Jul 15»

Mud damage near Twin Oaks: 'Our whole property has been …

Mud poured through their property, which is in the Piute Springs Ranches, northeast of Twin Oaks. That area, roughly between Bakersfield and ... «Bakersfield Now, Jul 15»

PICTURES: Faces in the Crowd - Ironpigs vs Mud Hens

Fans watch as Lehigh Valley IronPigs play against the Toledo Mud Hens during a baseball game held at Coca-Cola Park in Allentown on ... «Allentown Morning Call, Jul 15»

Mud volleyball makes its debut

Forest City High School volleyball player Amanda Wilson sloshes through the mud to hit the ball over the net while her teammates Maggie ... «Mason City Globe Gazette, Jul 15»

Slinging mud is part of the fun at Vinnie's

Alyssa Jackson and Brandon Lotzer take on the ATV pit at Vinnie's Mud Bog. At this three-day event, getting dirty is half the fun, the other half is ... «The Daily News, Jul 15»

Ari Fleischer: 'Toxic' Trump's Got GOP in a Mud-Slinging War

Donald Trump's "toxic" presidential campaign has pushed the GOP into a "race to the bottom," as the billionaire developer and his fellow ... «Newsmax, Jul 15»

After storms and dredging, Lake Ontario's name is mud

Complaints about Lake Ontario water quality have piled up this summer like waves on a stormy shore. People jaw about debris on the beach ... «Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Jul 15»

Mudslide closes Highway 140 near entrance to Yosemite National …

Yosemite officials say heavy rains in an area burned last summer brought mud and water across the highway. Three cars were trapped in the ... «ABC30.com, Jul 15»

Down home at the Mile O' Mud

The unique sporting event — soon to be commemorated by Lightner in a book entitled Mile O' Mud — originated in the photographer's backyard of Collier ... «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»