# slurry
## English
### Etymology 1

Unclear; probably related to Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”); compare slur. From mid-15th c.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈslʌɹ.i/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US, without the hurry–furry merger) IPA: /ˈslʌɹ.i/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (US, hurry–furry merger) IPA: /ˈslɝ.i/
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌɹi

#### Noun

slurry (countable and uncountable, plural slurries)
* Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
** 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$^{[distillerswetyeast]}$ probably is similar to spent brewers yeast slurry.
** 2002, R. Peter King, Introduction to Practical Fluid Flow, page 81: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.
** 2006, Mark A. Shand, The Chemistry and Technology of Magnesia, page 146: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.
* (mining) Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
** 2006, Raymond N. Yong, Catherine N. Mulligan, Masaharu Fukue, Geoenvironmental Sustainability, page 145:Slurry tailings ponds are by far the major type of containment facilities for slurry tailings.
* (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.
** 2004, W. H. Rulkens, “11: Overview of resource recovery techmologies for biowaste”, in Piet Lens, B. Hamelers, Harry Hoitink, Werner Bidlingmaier, editors, Resource Recovery and Reuse in Organic Solid Waste Management, page 249:In the Netherlands, the most problematic agricultural waste is liquid pig manure or pig slurry.
* (cooking) A thickener.

##### Derived terms

* coal slurry
* meat slurry
* slurry pit
* slurry wall

##### Translations
#### Verb

slurry (third-person singular simple present slurries, present participle slurrying, simple past and past participle slurried)
* To make a slurry (of some material).
* To apply a slurry (to).
    Next week we will be slurrying the parking lot.

### Etymology 2

From slur (“run together; articulate poorly”) +‎ -y.

#### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈslɝi/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈslɜːɹi/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɜːɹi

#### Adjective

slurry (comparative slurrier, superlative slurriest)
* Slurred, tending to slur.
    He spoke with a slurry voice.
    His voice became progressively slurrier as he drank the three bottles of wine.

### Anagrams

* Lurrys