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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
slurry
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Be sure not to damage the main surfaces by scratching with the paper or when wiping away the slurry.
▪ In the South-West, 90 polluters were fined a total of £23,000, mostly for illegally high discharges of agricultural slurry.
▪ The disadvantage, however, is that odour is regenerated if the treated slurry is stored following aeration.
▪ The middle aged man was pulled from the slurry tank by firemen.
▪ The mix forms a slurry which is rolled out and heated to remove water, then thickened into a solid strip.
▪ The result is a mixture of solids and liquid called a slurry. 3.
▪ The third configuration Considers mixing gas with a coal-water slurry.
▪ The wet slurry was then dug out and taken in barrows to be spread over drying ovens.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
slurry

mid-15c., "mud, slime, semi-fluid mix of water and dirt or clay," probably related to Middle English sloor "thin or fluid mud" (see slur (n.)).

Wiktionary
slurry

Etymology 1 n. 1 Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid. 2 (context mining English) Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams. 3 (context agriculture English) A mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; ''also used in combination, as '''pig slurry''', etc.'' vb. 1 To make a '''slurry''' (of some material). 2 To apply a '''slurry''' (to). Etymology 2

  1. Slurred, tending to slur.

WordNet
slurry

n. a suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water

Wikipedia
Slurry

A slurry is a thin sloppy mud or cement or, in extended use, any fluid mixture of a pulverized solid with a liquid (usually water), often used as a convenient way of handling solids in bulk. Slurries behave in some ways like thick fluids, flowing under gravity but are also capable of being pumped if not too thick.

Usage examples of "slurry".

Baltimore are prattlers, seeming to talk for the pleasure of hearing the sound of their voices, which are soft and slurry, doubtless from living in close proximity to Negroes.

Milky-white food slurry exploded in all directions, showering the recovery team with thick white fluid that dried quickly to a chalklike consistency.

Far from being a story which alternately excites and consoles, life is an endless slurry of computer print-out, a pie chart of statistical trends in which you, I fear, have been allotted the slimmest of slices.

The dancers were women who carried leafy ash branches with which they swept the ground as they capered ahead of the seven priests whose naked bodies had been whitened with the slurry of chalk in which finger patterns swirled.

It was as if someone had sucked his brain from the caverned chambers of his skull, leaving only an echoing hollow, or pumped his brain like a pink-gray slurry through the twisted copper tubes of a moonshiner's still, then spat the results back into his skull again.

The rumor of floods chamfering the rusty plains, grooving the reddish black slurry floors with the toilings of water, fans out and melts away into the dark amber glass of alien mantle beds.

It rolled on its side, legs kicking up a spray of slurried mud, blood jetting from its shattered skull, shards of bone dappling the ground.

A successful method of detecting the genes responsible for recessive dichromatism is CELL STRUCTURE ABSTRACTS REVIEW OF BIOCHEMICAL ABSTRACT JOURNALS PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE FOR CEREBROCHEMICAL STUDIES If you're looking for a tailored bacterium capable of turning those low-grade slurries into a profitable source of sulphur, ask Minnesota Mining for a sample of their strain VQ-141.

He stared at her with utter contempt on the very few occasions when she drank too much wine and her voice became slurry.

Sometimes it is only a slurry of water and muck and stones that cascade down, filling valleys to the brim and spreading out across plains.

They dug white clay from my favorite place, soaked it, filtered it, let it settle, and poured off the clear water from the slurry.

It edged its way downriver through the chilly mountain valleys, with greenish ice slurry forming in the wake, and thin sheets of floe ice gunshot-cracking and scream-splintering in front of the heavy prow.

They crossed a cinderland of caked slurry and volcanic ash imponderable as the burnedout floor of hell and they climbed up through a low range of barren granite hills to a stark promontory where the judge, triangulating from known points of landscape, reckoned anew their course.

There were some big forklift-type dittos on the other side of the ring, assigned to haul away losers before their smoldering bodies could turn into slurry.

On the surface these explosions were manifested as sudden icequakes, which reduced the surface ice overhead to a bubbling slurry, the liquid water soon freezing on the surface, but tending to stay liquid underneath.