slurry
IPA: sɫˈɝi
noun
- Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
- (mining) Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
- (agriculture) 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.
- (cooking) A thickener.
verb
- To make a slurry (of some material).
- To apply a slurry (to).
adjective
- Slurred, tending to slur.
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Examples of "slurry" in Sentences
- Here is the pot of hot and sour soup just after being thickened with eggs and a thin slurry of cornstarch.
- In practice, the term slurry is used for the digester content or the digested substrate flowing out of the plant.
- On flat roofs they are laid much like floor tiles but usually get a thin slurry of cement (not concrete) that supposedly seals them.
- 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.
- 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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