slurry
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- noun
- /ˈslɜːri/
- Specialized
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mezcla
- The factory produced a thick slurry of waste that needed to be properly disposed of.
- slurry tank
- water-based slurry
- limestone slurry
OK, so they use these, these giant saws with some sort of slurry chemical compound that would help those things cut the stone and they move slow.
- OK, so they use these, these giant saws with some sort of slurry chemical compound that would help those things cut the stone and they move slow.
- So he'll literally go in a slurry pit and masturbate.
- I used the glue stick, but for this I used my my kind of slurry mix of acetone and ABS and it it's stuck fine to the glass.
Examples
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Isolok samplers withdraw samples of liquids or slurries from pipes, troughs, or tanks.
Academic text (1997) -
The construction workers created a slurry of cement and water to fill the gaps in the foundation.
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Yeah, use a slurry which will actually do the cutting.
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You guys really went to town on that protein slurry.
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After a period of use, the bottom of the bath contains a slurry rich in zinc.
Academic text (1994) -
So we've got our leaf slurry pretty much ready.
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Yes, the slurry to feed our little worker bees and keep the hive going.
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In this form of remediation, the excavated soil is treated as a water-based slurry in a bioreactor.
Academic text (1995) -
Slurry is then pumped to two 12,600-gallon slurry batch tanks (T-02 and T-03).
Academic text (1997) -
Farmers often spread a slurry of manure over their fields to enrich the soil with nutrients.
Synonyms
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A thick, wet, muddy substance that comes from dirty water
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A mixture of tiny solid particles that float in a liquid
A mixture like milk where tiny solid bits stay spread in a liquid without dissolving
Antonyms
How Thick
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word slurry comes from an old word for wet 'mud' or 'dirt', so a helpful way to remember it is to think of slush or sludge. A slurry is a thick, muddy mix of tiny solid pieces in water.