Slime vs Slurry - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between slime and slurry

is that slime is soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing while slurry is any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.

As verbs the difference between slime and slurry

is that slime is to coat with slime while slurry is to make a slurry (of some material).

As an adjective slurry is

slurred, tending to slur.

slime

English

Noun

Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.

* Shakespeare

As it [the Nile] ebbs, the seedsman / Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.

Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.

A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.

* 2005 , G. E. Nordell, Backlot Requiem: A Rick Walker Mystery

If this guy knows who killed Robert, the right thing to do is to tell the police. If he doesn't know, really, then he's an opportunistic slime . It's still blackmail.

(figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.

* , II.x:

th'eternall Lord in fleshly slime / Enwombed was, from wretched Adams line / To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime [...].

(obsolete) = ((l))

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

Derived terms

* slime mold * pink slime

Synonyms

* (any substance of a dirty nature) sludge

Verb

(slim)

To coat with slime.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}

(figuratively) To besmirch or disparage.

Anagrams

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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.