ooze vs sputum

ooze

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

  • A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground. 

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

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

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

verb
  • To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude. 

  • To be secreted or slowly leak. 

sputum

noun
  • Matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth, composed of saliva and discharges from the respiratory passages such as mucus, phlegm or pus. 

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