Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having sediment or foreign particles stirred up or suspended; muddy.
- adjective Heavy, dark, or dense, as smoke or fog.
- adjective In a state of turmoil; muddled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Properly, having the lees disturbed; in a more general sense, muddy; foul with extraneous matter; thick; not clear; used of liquids of any kind, or of color.
- Confused; disordered; disquieted; disturbed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not clear; having suspended matter that scatters light passing through; having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; -- used of liquids of any kind
- adjective Disturbed; confused; disordered.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the
lees orsediment disturbed ; roiled;muddy ;thick ; notclear ; -- used ofliquids of any kind.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To unite a killer mix of artificial and live bait — giving a larger, bulkier target in turbid waters — hook a minnow in the head on the middle treble, adding a treble stinger if strikes are short, and drop it to the bottom.
25 Killer Spring Tips for Bass, Trout, Crappie, Walleys, and Pike 2005
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This adaptation allows the fish to live in turbid, stagnant waters low in dissolved oxygen: under such conditions, it may obtain as much as 70 percent of the oxygen it needs from the atmosphere.
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Weary of waiting longer for the weather, we start at last on a somewhat doubtful morning, and find the paths wet and slippery, and the mountain streams all turbid from the rain of the last three days.
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; the river raced in turbid waves; the sand drove in clouds; and the face of the sky was darkened as if by a London fog.
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Flies: The traditional advice is to use black in turbid water and light colors in clear water, but I’ve always had better results with darker flies — black, green, and brown.
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“Match the hue to the water conditions: black in turbid water, bright colors in stained, and silver in clear, for example. “
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Let us carry our experiments a step further, and see what effect what is known as a turbid medium has upon the illuminating value of different parts of the spectrum.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 Various
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Richard Lenski (concerning turbidity), and then search the pdf for "turbid" for me to observe that the actual data are not there.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Aschlafly 2010
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Richard Lenski (concerning turbidity), and then search the pdf for "turbid" for me to observe that the actual data are not there.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] RichardKerry 2010
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Richard Lenski (concerning turbidity), and then search the pdf for "turbid" for me to observe that the actual data are not there.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] PRichards 2010
jaime_d commented on the word turbid
". . .a bow window of milky-murky glass giving off a dark and turbid glow, a pallid photocopy of sunlight. . ." Gilbert Adair translation of Georges Perec's La Disparition
August 11, 2010