SLUR
\slˈɜː], \slˈɜː], \s_l_ˈɜː]\
Definitions of SLUR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"
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utter indistinctly
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speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; "your comments are slurring your co-workers"
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play smoothly or legato; "the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata"
By Princeton University
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a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"
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utter indistinctly
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speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; "your comments are slurring your co-workers"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
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To disparage; to traduce.
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To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
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To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
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To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
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To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
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To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
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A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
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In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
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To disparage; to traduce.
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To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
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To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
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To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
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To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
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To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
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A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
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In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To soil; pass over in a slighting manner; to speak slightingly of; pronounce indistinctly; in music, to execute without breaks between two or more tones; to mark so as to show that the passage is to be so executed.
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A stain; a remark implying reproach; stigma; in music, a mark (or) connecting notes that are to be sung or played without a break.
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Slurred.
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Slurring.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To soil: to contaminate: to disgrace: to pass over lightly: to conceal: (music) to sing or play in a gliding manner:-pr.p. slurring; pa.t. and pa.p. slurred.
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A stain: slight reproach: (music) a mark showing that notes are to be sung to the same syllable.
By Daniel Lyons
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A Stain; reproach; mark showing that notes are to be sung or played without division.
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To soil; sully; pass over lightly; sing or play in a gliding manner.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To slight; disparage; suppress; conceal; run together, as words.
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To smear; soil.
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A disparaging remark; disparagement; stigma.
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A curved line indicating that tones so tied are to be sung to the same syllable.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a mark or arch connecting notes that are to be played or sung glidingly.
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To soil; to sully; to disparage; to pass over lightly; to sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To soil; to contaminate; to disgrace; to pass lightly; to do carelessly or imperfectly; to sing in a gliding style; to run notes into each other.
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A mark or strain; slight reproach or disgrace; in music, a mark thus, connecting notes of different pitch to be sung to the same word or syllable.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
