mud

mixture of water and any combination of soil, silt, and clay
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mud
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mud

Summary

mud ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (303 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • mud's image is recorded as A team of stretcher bearers struggle through deep mud to carry a wounded man to safety near Boesinghe on 1 August 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres. Q5935.jpg[2].
  • mud's image is recorded as A dangerous ride after a heavy downpour.jpg[3].
  • mud's image is recorded as Dirt road, Ondřejovsko (2).jpg[4].
  • mud's image is recorded as Yellowstone mud pot p1090998.jpg[5].
  • mud's subclass of is recorded as clastic sediment[6].
  • mud's subclass of is recorded as building material[7].
  • mud's subclass of is recorded as mixture[8].
  • mud's Commons category is recorded as Mud[9].
  • mud's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01qr50[10].
  • mud's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mud[11].
  • mud's Commons gallery is recorded as Mud[12].
  • mud's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300014337[13].
  • mud's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10676429[14].
  • mud's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as surface=mud[15].
  • mud's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • mud's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[17].
  • mud's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[18].
  • mud's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/mud-geology[19].
  • mud's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000001[20].
  • mud's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as mud[21].
  • mud's Banglapedia ID is recorded as কর্দম[22].
  • mud's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23].
  • mud's Mindat mineral ID is recorded as 49426[24].
  • mud's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/7378[25].
  • mud's Lex ID is recorded as mudder[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for mud include February[27], a calendar month[28]; big ball of mud[29], a programming anti-pattern[30]; and Mudborne: Frog Management Sim[31], a video game[32].

Why It Matters

mud ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (303 views/month).[1] mud has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] mud is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Entities named for mud include February[27], a calendar month[28]; big ball of mud[29], a programming anti-pattern[30]; and Mudborne: Frog Management Sim[31], a video game[32].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  19. [20] . Environment Ontology. wikidata.org.
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  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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