Litter vs Slurry - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between litter and slurry

is that litter is a platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol while slurry is any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.

As verbs the difference between litter and slurry

is that litter is to drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles) while slurry is to make a slurry (of some material).

As an adjective slurry is

slurred, tending to slur.

litter

English

Noun

(wikipedia litter)

(countable) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.

* Shakespeare

There is a litter ready; lay him in 't.

(countable) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.

* D. Estrange

A wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to take care of her litter .

(uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.

(uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.

* Jonathan Swift

Strephon / Stole in, and took a strict survey / Of all the litter as it lay.

(uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray

(uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.

A covering of straw for plants.

* Evelyn

Take off the litter from your kernel beds.

Synonyms

* (platform designed to carry a person or a load): palanquin, sedan chair, stretcher, cacolet * (items discarded on the ground): waste, rubbish, garbage (US), trash (US), junk

Derived terms

* cat litter * litter bin * litter bug, litterbug * litter frog

Verb

(en verb)

To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

* By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering .

To strew with scattered articles.

* Jonathan Swift

the room with volumes littered round

To give birth to, used of animals.

* Sir Thomas Browne

We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us.

* Shakespeare

The son that she did litter here, / A freckled whelp hagborn.

To produce a litter of young.

* Macaulay

A desert where the she-wolf still littered .

To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

* Bishop Hacke

Tell them how they litter their jades.

* Dryden

For his ease, well littered was the floor.

To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

* Habington

The inn where he and his horse littered .

Derived terms

* litterer

Anagrams

* ---- ==Jèrriais==

Verb

(roa-jer-verb)

to wrestle

Derived terms

slurry

English

Etymology 1

Unclear; probably related to (etyl) ; compare slur. From mid-15th c. (wikipedia slurry)

Noun

(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^{[distillers wet yeast]} 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'', 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 .

Derived terms

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

Verb

To make a slurry (of some material).

To apply a slurry (to).

Next week we will be slurrying the parking lot.

Etymology 2

From .

Adjective

(er)

Slurred, tending to slur.

He spoke with a slurry''' voice.'' — ''His voice became progressively '''slurrier as he drank the three bottles of wine.