Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thin mixture of a liquid, especially water, and any of several finely divided substances, such as cement, plaster of Paris, or clay particles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dirty; smear.
- noun A semi-fluid mixture of various earths, clays, or pulverized minerals with water: a term used with a variety of meanings in the arts; specifically, a semi-fluid mixture of some refractory material, as ganister, with water: used for repairs about the bottom and twyerholes of the Bessemer converter
- noun A product of the silver-smelting process as carried on in England and Wales, consisting of a mixture of the sulphurets and arseniurets of copper, lead, and silver, and sometimes containing nickel, cobalt, and other metals.
- noun In the manufacture of Portland cement, the mixture of silicious and calcareous ingredients in due proportion, brought to the consistence of a fluid mud by the addition of a sufficient amount of water, so as to insure intimate and uniform admixture before drying and burning the solid material.
- noun In ceramics, inequalities in the interior of a pottery vessel which are smoothed by the rib or profile held in the left hand of the workman as the wheel revolves, while a damp sponge, held in the right hand, smooths the exterior.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Slurred, tending to slur.
- noun A thin
mixture of liquid and fine substances such as clay or plaster of Paris. - noun Liquid waste produced by
mountain top removal mining . Usually very toxic. Usually stored nearby in giant dams. - verb To make a slurry (of some material)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of Paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In practice, the term slurry is used for the digester content or the digested substrate flowing out of the plant.
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Too bad nearby farmers are now losing their ancestral farm houses and fertile rows of corn to longwall mining and more coal slurry is slated for their aquifers.
Jeff Biggers: Pay Day: Big Coal Lobby/Utility Giant Rake in $1 Billion to Create FutureGen Toxic Dump Jeff Biggers 2010
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Too bad nearby farmers are now losing their ancestral farm houses and fertile rows of corn to longwall mining and more coal slurry is slated for their aquifers.
Jeff Biggers: Pay Day: Big Coal Lobby/Utility Giant Rake in $1 Billion to Create FutureGen Toxic Dump Jeff Biggers 2010
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The Associated Press has found that several Appalachian states “let coal companies inject slurry into abandoned mines” but “none track exactly how much slurry is pumped underground” or examine its chemical composition.
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Too bad nearby farmers are now losing their ancestral farm houses and fertile rows of corn to longwall mining and more coal slurry is slated for their aquifers.
Jeff Biggers: Pay Day: Big Coal Lobby/Utility Giant Rake in $1 Billion to Create FutureGen Toxic Dump Jeff Biggers 2010
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Here is the pot of hot and sour soup just after being thickened with eggs and a thin slurry of cornstarch.
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On flat roofs they are laid much like floor tiles but usually get a thin slurry of cement (not concrete) that supposedly seals them.
Roof Leaking 2002
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On flat roofs they are laid much like floor tiles but usually get a thin slurry of cement (not concrete) that supposedly seals them.
Roof Leaking 2002
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On flat roofs they are laid much like floor tiles but usually get a thin slurry of cement (not concrete) that supposedly seals them.
Roof Leaking 2002
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On flat roofs they are laid much like floor tiles but usually get a thin slurry of cement (not concrete) that supposedly seals them.
Roof Leaking 2002
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