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slurry

[ slur-ee ]

noun

, plural slur·ries.
  1. a thin mixture of an insoluble substance, as cement, clay, or coal, with a liquid, as water or oil.
  2. Ceramics. a thin slip.


verb (used with object)

, slur·ried, slur·ry·ing.
  1. to prepare a suspension of (a solid in a liquid).

adjective

  1. of or relating to such a suspension.

slurry

/ ˈslʌrɪ /

noun

  1. a suspension of solid particles in a liquid, as in a mixture of cement, clay, coal dust, manure, meat, etc with water


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Word History and Origins

Origin of slurry1

1400–50; late Middle English slory; perhaps akin to slur

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Word History and Origins

Origin of slurry1

C15 slory; see slur

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Example Sentences

He gestured at a polishing machine behind us, where glass pieces slowly revolved on top a slurry of wet polishing mix.

Once flushed, that stool flows through pipes, interweaving with the plumbing of other toilets, rooms, buildings and even neighborhoods, providing a slurry that can be sampled.

There’s a claim all over the Internet that you can make a “moss smoothie” by blending yogurt or buttermilk and spreading the slurry over rocks.

To use, bring the sauce to a boil for maximum thickening power, slowly add the slurry while stirring, and cook for only a minute or two as prolonged heat can cause the starch to break down and thin out the sauce again.

The nuggets will be created by first putting down a layer of extruded plant protein engineered to produce a more realistic meat-like texture instead of a kind of slurry.

Indeed, there are whole generations who only know him in his slurry buccaneer phase from Pirates of the Caribbean.

Volcanoes spewed lava and ash, ocean floors were thrust upward, sand and rock and shale settled into slurry.

Slurry, slur′i, n. any one of several semi-fluid mixtures, esp.

These streams fill the channel with a slurry of mud and commonly transport considerable quantities of sediment for a day or two.

Fresh slurry is run on to the drying floors, and the kiln is started.

At the upper end the raw material is fed in either as a dry powder or as a slurry; at the lower end is a powerful burner.

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