So, I'm sitting here reading the paper and enjoying my last weekday off before my faculty duties resume on Monday, and I stumble across this sentence, regarding the cementing of the infamous well in the Gulf.
"A day before, crews forced a slow torrent of heavy mud down the broken wellhead from ships a mile above to push the crude back to its underground source." (appearing in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, byline = Democrat-Gazette Press Services).
I actually stopped reading after "heavy mud," because I couldn't get the question mark in my brain to turn off. A "slow torrent"? Is that possible?
Here's the definition of "torrent" from dictionary.com:
4.
So, there it is, in definition number 2. Indeed, a torrent may move slowly, although I still find it a strange image.
Gotta love the dictionary!
2 comments:
you are keeping me educated!
guess the one benefit to being an adjunct is I don't have to report until I walk into the classroom next Monday. Although I do have a meeting on the 12th to meet the other adjuncts and the FT faculty.
adjuncts need MORE benefits, but thanks for finding a silver lining there. Good luck with your semester.
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