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单词 slurry
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slurryn.

Brit. /ˈslʌri/, U.S. /ˈsləri/
Forms: Also Middle English slory, 1800s slorry.
Etymology: Related to slur n.1
1.
a. Thin sloppy mud or cement. Also in extended use, any fluid mixture of a pulverized solid with a liquid (usually water), frequently used as a convenient form in which to handle solids in bulk.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > constitution of matter > semi-fluidity > [noun] > a semi-fluid substance or mass
sklucec1430
pap1435
slurryc1440
cream1540
batter1601
slabbermenta1620
swill1665
soss1691
porridge1700
cremor1701
sludge1702
semifluid1731
sludder1796
sloppery1832
slob1885
slabber1887
slather1928
gunk1949
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [noun] > industrial solution
slurryc1440
sauce1836
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > mud > [noun] > thin or soft
addleOE
slougha1225
mirec1390
slurc1440
slurryc1440
sludge1702
slush1772
slop1796
slosh1808
stabble1821
sposh1836
sleck1840
flop1844
squad1847
slather1876
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 203/2 Gore, or slory, limus, tessequa.
1878 F. S. Williams Midland Railway (ed. 4) 492 A nearly semi-fluid mass of ‘slurry’, which settles down like glue to the bottom of the wagon.
1886 Cyclists' Touring Club Gaz. IV. 187/2 The sand..should be watered until it..can be worked up into slurry with brooms.
1901 Longman's Mag. Sept. 396 Its sluggish streak of creeping slurry miscalled a creek.
1935 Discovery Apr. 119/1 The strata are pounded into a ‘slurry’ by the constant rising and falling of the heavy drilling tools.
1948 Chambers's Jrnl. July 388/1 The idea here is to break up the turf bank face by means of high-pressure jets, like firemen's hoses, into slurry.
1955 Sci. News Let. 20 Aug. 115/2 The U.S.-designed power plant..uses..thorium oxide slurry in heavy water in another part of the device, called a homogenous reactor.
1961 Aeroplane 101 342/3 Whatever form of contaminant is selected, it is first mixed with kerosene to form a ‘slurry’, so representing the normal state in which it would pass through a filter in service.
1975 Nature 30 Oct. 818/1 In a second experiment, another batch of about 3 ml of the packed cell slurry was resuspended in the culture medium.
b. spec. A mixture of water and fine particles of coal, produced esp. as a by-product of the washing of coal; such material in dried form, used as fuel.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > coal-derived fuel
coal ball1603
pipe-coal1612
hotshot1673
hotshoot1704
fireball1735
brickette1806
briquette1884
coal slurry1912
slurry1913
semi-coke1918
Phurnacite1937
syncrude1971
1913 Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers XLV. 429 Where the moisture percentage is not over 5, the small dust measuring less than 1 cubic millimetre (which is the cause of all the slurry trouble) can be just as efficiently treated by dry-percussive screening as by any other method.
1930 Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers 78 27 It cannot be claimed that slurry is a suitable fuel for pulverizing.
1955 Times 4 July 15/5 They [sc. the N.C.B.] have been using a new type of mechanical stoker, which is fully automatic, to burn slurry—fine particles of coal and soluble shale which is rejected from washeries.
1976 ‘R. Lewis’ Witness my Death v. 180 That tip up there, it's full of water. The slurry is drifting down.
c. spec. A mixture of manure or farmyard waste and water; manure in fluid form.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > dunging > dung
dungOE
muckc1268
dunging?1440
fimea1475
fulyiec1480
tath1492
soil1607
street soil1607
dung-water1608
soiling1610
mucking1611
short dung, manure, muck1618
folding1626
muck water1626
stable manure1629
long dung1658
spit-dunga1671
stercoration1694
street dirt1694
horse-litter1721
pot-dunga1722
sock1790
street manure1793
police manure1825
fold-manure1829
slurry1965
1965 Punch 22 Dec. 932/2 In a modern fattening house..the manure from several hundred swine falls through slatted floors into tanks beneath the building where a daily dose of water soon turns it into a forbidding quantity of evil-smelling slurry.
1970 R. Jeffries Dead Man's Bluff i. 5 He went through from the dairy into the herringbone parlour and stared..at the two days' accumulation of slurry.
1971 Farmers Weekly 19 Mar. 48/4 It takes one man about six minutes a day to clear away the slurry and a bit longer to put out the hay.
2. In technical use: (see quots.).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > siftings or refuse
mill dust1354
roughc1460
overchaving1607
sid1673
grey meal?1771
shag1822
slurry1825
slush1843
slutch1851
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > inequalities due to superfluous material
slurry1825
a.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 462 (Pottery) The thrower..forms the inside of the vessel.., and smoothes it by removing the slurry, or inequalities.
1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 46 By the assistance of one of these [instruments] the inside is smoothed and any inequalities, technically called slurry, are removed.
b.1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. Slorry, Slurry, the levigated matter which forms under a grindstone.c.1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron 466 Subsequently running in slurry—that is, a semi-fluid mixture of ganister and fire-clay with water—around the inside of the twyer so as to make a good joint.1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Slurry, a term used in foundries to signify dirty water, or black wash, and in a general way any fluid used in moulding.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
slurry disposal adj.
ΚΠ
1970 R. Jeffries Dead Man's Bluff i. 5 He stared angrily at..the slurry disposal unit.
slurry pipeline n.
ΚΠ
1969 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 13 Dec. 9/3 Kaiser..was contemplating a slurry pipeline to the coast as an alternative to rail.
slurry pit n.
ΚΠ
1976 Cumberland News 3 Dec. 13/4 There was a slurry pit also under a byre, made of slate.
slurry pump n.
ΚΠ
1940 F. A. Kristal & F. A. Annett Pumps Index 338/2 Slurry pumps.
1976 Cumberland News 3 Dec. 34/3 (advt.) Alfa Laval slurry pumps.
slurry refiner n.
ΚΠ
1916 Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers LI. 272 With the combination of this slurry-refiner and the elevated settling-tank.., it has been found possible to work a washery, year in and year out, without any outlet whatever.
slurry tank n.
ΚΠ
1936 Economist 25 Apr. 213/2 Property account has been increased to £12,557 by the addition of the slurry tanks and quartz deposit.
slurry tanker n.
ΚΠ
1971 Farmers Weekly (Extra) 19 Mar. 5/1 (advt.) We know we have the best slurry tanker.
C2.
slurry seal n. (see quot. 1967).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > adhesive > [noun] > mixture of binder, aggregate and filler
slurry seal1967
1967 Gloss. Highway Engin. Terms (B.S.I.) 30 Slurry seal, a mixture of binder, fine aggregate and mineral filler with water added to produce a material of slurry consistency.
1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 7 Feb. 5/6 Slurry seal is a tar-like chemical substance that is spread on city streets to preserve them. It is cheaper than asphalt.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

slurryadj.

/ˈsləːri/
Etymology: < slur v.1 + -y suffix1.
Blurred, indistinct: now usually of speech.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct
dimc1000
blinda1398
undistingued1398
obscure?a1450
undistinct1495
shadowed1588
undistinguishable1600
shady1626
blear1637
filmed1637
indistinguishable1642
crepusculous1646
adumbrated1650
oblite1650
faint1660
monogrammous1678
blurred1701
faintish1712
wispya1717
adumbrant1727
muzzy1744
indistinct1764
fuzzy1778
misty1797
shadowy1797
undistinguished1814
woolly1815
vague1822
furzy1825
mystified1833
slurred1843
feeble1860
smudginga1861
filmy1864
smudgy1865
blurry1884
slurry1937
the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > inarticulate indistinct > of speech
thicka1398
clipped1483
unlanguaged1677
slurred1746
slithering1840
slurring1848
mushmouth1902
mushmouthed1909
slurry1937
side-of-the-mouth1939
1937 Daily Express 12 Feb. 5/3 This is the way to detect a forgery— look for notes that are rather blurred or ‘slurry’.

Derivatives

ˈslurrily adv.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adverb] > in a mumbling or indistinct manner
closely1564
mafflingly1565
thick1589
fumblingly1598
mumblingly1662
grumblingly1677
mutteringlyc1681
clippingly1849
amutter1856
splutteringly1941
splodgily1963
slurrily1969
1969 ‘H. Calvin’ Chosen Instrument ii. 22 ‘We own nothing, we need nothing,’ the fat boy said slurrily.
1977 J. McClure Sunday Hangman xv. 174 ‘Why leave the bodies everywhere?’ Willie demanded, driven..to speak his mind, if a little slurrily.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

slurryv.

Brit. /ˈslʌri/, U.S. /ˈsləri/
Forms: Middle English slory, 1500s slorye, 1600s slorie; 1500s, 1800s dialect slorry, 1600s slourry; 1500s–1600s slurrie, 1600s, 1800s slurry.
Etymology: Compare slurry adj. and slur v.1
Now dialect.
transitive. To dirty, soil, smear, daub, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty [verb (transitive)]
uncleanseOE
horyc1200
befoulc1320
behorewe1340
file1340
flobber1377
smatterc1386
foulc1400
slurryc1440
filtha1450
sowla1450
sollc1480
bawdy1495
squagea1500
arrayc1525
ray1526
bawdc1529
beray1530
filthify1545
belime1555
soss1557
embroyn1566
dirt1570
filthy1581
turpifya1586
dirty1591
muck1618
bedirt1622
bedirty1623
smooch1631
dight1632
fewma1637
snuddle1661
bepaw1684
puddle1698
nasty1707
muddify1739
scavenger1806
mucky1828
squalidize1837
mullock1861
muddy1893
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 460/1 Sloryyd, cenosus, cenolentus, lutulentus.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Slorye or make fowle, sordido.
a1555 J. Bradford in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 252 Though you lye in the darke, slorryed wyth the bishoppes blacke cole dust, yet [etc.].
1591 R. Turnbull Expos. Epist. St. Iames f. 231v Malicious persons, who..soyle, slurrie, and file the garmentes of our neighbours.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 195 As they that soile and slourry writing tables when they be faire scoured and clensed.
1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vi. 299 Amiantus..being put into the fire, is not hurt nor slurried.
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. To Slorie, or make foule.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Slurry, to daub, to dirty.
1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. Slorry, to plaster, daub over.
figurative.1647 J. Trapp Mellificium Theol. in Comm. Epist. & Rev. 717 Divinity..that had been shamefully obscured and slurried with needlesse and endlesse doubts.1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 191 All the Great..things of this World, are slurried and disgraced, comparatively with the Life of Christ.1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ I To slur, slurry, or cast a slur on one's reputation.

Derivatives

ˈslurrying n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > soiling
soilure1297
sowlingc1440
smirching1495
soiling1580
soilth1581
slurrying1600
smutching1611
aspersion1614
sullya1616
sullying1629
dabbling1677
soilage1926
1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah 363 The slurrying which was used toward him,..hath made him shine the brighter.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Souillement, a soyling, slurrying, durtying.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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