BLURS vs SLUR: NOUN
- A hazy or indistinct representation
- Plural form of blur.
- A disparaging remark; an aspersion.
- A slurred utterance or sound.
- A curved line connecting notes on a score to indicate that they are to be played or sung legato.
- A passage played or sung in this manner.
- A smeared or blurred impression.
- A trick or deception.
- The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
- A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- An insult or slight.
- A blemish made by dirt
- A mark or stain; a smear; hence, figuratively, a slight occasion of reproach.
- A disparaging or slighting remark; an insinuation; an innuendo: as, he could never speak of him without a slur.
- A trick; a cheat. See slur, intransitive verb, 2.
- Mud; especially, thin, washy mud.
- In vocal music, the combination of two or more tones of the music sung to a single syllable.
- In musical notation, a curved mark connecting two or more notes that are to be performed to a single syllable, or without break.
- . A slide or glide.
- In printing, a blurred or doubled impression caused by a shake or uneven motion in the sheet.
- In a knitting-machine, mechanism which travels on a bar called the slur-bar, and depresses the jack-sinkers in succession, sinking a loop of thread between every pair of needles.
- (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato
- A disparaging remark
- A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
- A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
- A mark, thus [⌢ or ⌣], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
- In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
BLURS vs SLUR: VERB
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blur.
- Become glassy; lose clear vision
- Make a smudge on; soil by smudging
- Make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
- Make dim or indistinct
- Become vague or indistinct
- To make less distinct or clear
- Become vague or indistinct
- Play smoothly or legato
- Speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur
- Utter indistinctly
- To insult or slight.
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
BLURS vs SLUR: TRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To pass over lightly or carelessly; treat without due consideration.
- To talk about disparagingly or insultingly.
- To pronounce indistinctly.
- To mark with a slur.
- To glide over (a series of notes) smoothly without a break.
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- To disparage; to traduce.
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
- To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
- To blur or smear.
BLURS vs SLUR: OTHER WORD TYPES
- N/A
- To smear; soil by smearing with something; sully; contaminate; pollute; tarnish: often with over.
- To disparage by insinuation or innuendo; depreciate; calumniate; traduce; asperse; speak slightingly of.
- To pass lightly (over or through); treat lightly or slightingly; make little of: commonly with over.
- To cheat, originally by slipping or sliding a die in a particular way: an old gambling term; hence, to trick or cheat in general.
- To do (anything) in a careless manner; render obscure or indistinct by running together, as words in speaking.
- 6, In music, to sing (two or more tones) to a single syllable, or perform in a legato manner. See slur, n., 4.
- In printing, to blur or double, as an impression from type; mackle.
- To slide; be moved or dragged along in a shuffling, negligent way.
- To practise cheating by slipping a die out of the box so as not to let it turn; hence, to cheat in any way.
- In music, to apply a slur to two or more notes.
- E.g., make a racial slur
- Speak disparagingly of
BLURS vs SLUR: RELATED WORDS
- Clouds, Fogs, Disappears, Obscures, Film over, Glaze over, Smutch, Blear, Slur, Obscure, Smear, Dim, Fuzz, Confuse, Smudge
- Insinuation, Insult, Denigration, Slander, Racist, Remark, Smirch, Dim, Blur, Spot, Daub, Smudge, Blot, Smear, Aspersion
BLURS vs SLUR: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Merges, Animates, Transcends, Clouds, Obscures, Smutch, Glaze over, Blear, Slur, Obscure, Smear, Dim, Fuzz, Confuse, Smudge
- Disparage, Snub, Innuendo, Insinuation, Insult, Slander, Racist, Smirch, Dim, Blur, Spot, Smudge, Blot, Smear, Aspersion
BLURS vs SLUR: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Gaussian, but you can experiment with different types of blurs.
- Is your vision a battlefield for blurs and clarity?
- Unfortunately, the media also often blurs ethnicity with faith.
- Your connection blurs the line between friends and lovers.
- The Blur tool blurs hard edges in an image.
- Ugly barks, murky blurs of riffs slammed into you.
- Motion blurs are some cases, and identifying number.
- For individual states, however, the picture blurs somewhat.
- Adding glows, blurs, dissolves, flutter cuts and more.
- They duelled so fiercely their wands were blurs.
- Why do people slur their words when they drink?
- Michelle Obama was alleged to have used the slur.
- Texas Tech investigation said no racial slur was heard.
- Circuit refused to interpret it as a racial slur.
- We slur our words, stop and start, interrupt ourselves.
- What do you think of the cracker slur?
- You should also apologize for your ethnic slur.
- The word negro is far from a slur.
- The slur itself is also smaller than the normal sized slur symbol and its size is in proportion to that of the grace note.
- Having to practice for years Age songs vocal music a slur normally indicates that notes grouped together by slur!
BLURS vs SLUR: QUESTIONS
- What is the meaning of the KFC ad that blurs out slogan?
- Should I be worried if my vision blurs during exercise?
- Does smartdeblur work with artificial blurs produced by Photoshop?
- What does Atticus tell scout about Cecil Jacob's racial slur?
- Why is the word 'Patel' considered a slur to Indians?
- Did country music star Morgan Wallen use a racial slur?
- What did John Mayne say about Harvey's'unhinged slur'?
- Did iron order fight with Mongols over a racial slur?
- What did Western Kentucky University do about The racial slur?
- What does Atticus tell his daughter about the term 'slur'?
- Which slur indicates that the scale is played legato?
- Are Cracker Barrel restaurants named after an offensive slur?
- Do slur marks over staccatos imply portato articulation?