different between screed vs slurry

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Ireland) IPA^(key): /sk?i?d/
• (General American, Scotland) IPA^(key): /sk?id/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English screde [and other forms], a variant of shrede (“fragment, scrap; strip of cloth; strip cut off from a larger piece; band or thread woven into fabric; element, streak”) (whence shred (noun)), from Old English s?r?ad, s?r?ade (“a piece cut off; paring, shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraud? (“a piece, shred; a cut, crack”), from *skraudan? (“to cut up, shred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”). The English word is cognate with Old Frisian skr?d.

Noun

screed (plural screeds)

1. (chiefly Ireland, Newfoundland, Scotland, dated) A piece or narrow strip cut or torn off from a larger whole; a shred. [from mid 14th c.]

   Synonym: scrid
2. (chiefly regional Britain, Scotland, dated) A piece of land, especially one that is narrow.
3. (chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, dated) A rent, a tear.

   Synonyms: cut, rip
4. A piece of writing (such as an article, letter, or list) or a speech, especially if long.
5. (by extension) A speech or piece of writing which contains angry and extended criticism. [from late 18th c.]

   Synonyms: harangue, polemic, rant, tirade, diatribe; see also Thesaurus:diatribe
6. Chiefly in the plural form screeds: a large quantity.
8. (construction, masonry) Senses relating to building construction and masonry.
   1. A tool, usually a long strip of wood or other material, placed on a floor to be covered with concrete, a wall to be plastered, etc., as a guide for producing a smooth, flat surface.
   2. A tool such as a long strip of wood or other material which is drawn over a wet layer of concrete, plaster, etc., to make it smooth and flat; also, a machine that achieves this effect; a screeder.

      Synonym: strickle
   3. A smooth, flat layer of concrete, plaster, or similar material, especially if acting as a base for paving stones, tiles, wooden planks, etc.

Derived terms

• floating screed

Related terms

• shred

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English screde, Early Middle English screda, a variant of shreden, shrede (“to chop, cut up, hack; to cut to shape; to maim, wound; to prune, trim”) [and other forms] (whence shred (verb)), from Old English scr?adian (“to cut up, shred; to cut off, prune”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudan? (“to cut up, shred”), see further at etymology 1; later uses are derived from the noun screed.

Verb

screed (third-person singular simple present screeds, present participle screeding, simple past and past participle screeded)

1. (transitive, chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, dated) To rend, to shred, to tear.

   Synonyms: cut, rip
2. (transitive, Scotland, also figuratively, dated) To read or repeat from memory fluently or glibly; to reel off.
3. (transitive, construction, masonry) To use a screed to produce a smooth, flat surface of concrete, plaster, or similar material; also (generally) to put down a layer of concrete, plaster, etc.
4. (intransitive, Scotland) To become rent or torn.

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Etymology 3

Probably imitative; compare screech, skreigh.

Noun

screed (plural screeds) (Northern Ireland, Scotland)

1. (chiefly humorous) A (discordant) sound or tune played on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
2. The sound of something scratching or tearing.

Translations

Verb

screed (third-person singular simple present screeds, present participle screeding, simple past and past participle screeded) (Northern Ireland, Scotland, rare)

1. (intransitive, chiefly humorous) To play bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
2. (intransitive) To make a discordant or harsh scratching or tearing sound.
3. (transitive, chiefly humorous, obsolete) To play (a sound or tune) on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.

Translations

Etymology 4

From scree (“loose, stony debris”) +? -ed.

Adjective

screed (not comparable)

1. Strewn with scree.

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References

Further reading

• screed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “Melanie & Mike” (20 July 1998) , “Spotlight on … Screed”, in Take Our Word for It?^[2], archived from the original on 3 July 2017.

Anagrams

• Creeds, ceders, creeds

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sl?.?i/, IPA^(key): /?sl?.i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sl?.?i/
• Rhymes: -??i

Noun

slurry (countable and uncountable, plural slurries)

1. 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.

2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (cooking) A thickener.

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Translations

Verb

slurry (third-person singular simple present slurries, present participle slurrying, simple past and past participle slurried)

1. To make a slurry (of some material).
2. 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^(key): /?sl?i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sl???i/
• Rhymes: -??ri

Adjective

slurry (comparative slurrier, superlative slurriest)

1. 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