slurry
/ˈslʌ.ɹi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.95 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
verb
To apply a slurry (to).
Example Sentences
- "1981, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Animal Nutrition, Feeding Value of Ethanol Production By-products, page 26, While little information is available, it probably is similar to spent brewers yeast slurry."
- "The most important application of fluid flow techniques in the mineral processing industry is the transportation of slurries. Whenever solid materials are in particulate form transportation in the form of a slurry is possible."
- "Magnesium hydroxide slurry consists of an aqueous suspension of particulate magnesium hydroxide. The principle sources of slurry are from seawater- or brine-produced magnesium hydroxide, natural brucite, or from the slaking of magnesium oxide powder. Magnesium hydroxide slurry is gaining in popularity as a replacement for caustic soda and lime in waste-water treatment applications."
- "2011, Wan Renpu, Petroleum Industry Press staff (translators), Advanced Well Completion Engineering, page 259, The other properties of cement slurry and set cement are also related closely to cement slurry density."
- "Slurry tailings ponds are by far the major type of containment facilities for slurry tailings."
- "In the Netherlands, the most problematic agricultural waste is liquid pig manure or pig slurry."
Etymology
Unclear; probably related to Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”); compare slur. From mid-15th c.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: y
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈslʌ.ɹi/
- British English: /ˈslʌ.ɹi/