Sekirov Dictionary

slurry

/ˈslʌ.ɹi/

noun 4
verb 2
/ˈslɜːɹi/ adjective 1
forms 5

noun4

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Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
- While little information is available, it probably is similar to spent brewers yeast slurry. — 1981
•
Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
- Slurry tailings ponds are by far the major type of containment facilities for slurry tailings. — 2006
•
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.
- In the Netherlands, the most problematic agricultural waste is liquid pig manure or pig slurry. — 2004
A thickener.

verb2

To make a slurry (of some material).
•
To apply a slurry (to).
- Next week we will be slurrying the parking lot.

slurry

/ˈslɜːɹi/

adjective1

•
Slurred, tending to slur.
- He spoke with a slurry voice.
- His voice became progressively slurrier as he drank the three bottles of wine.

forms

slurried · slurrying · slurries · slurrier · slurriest

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