different between disgrace vs slur

English

Etymology

From Middle French disgracier.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s???e?s/, /d?z???e?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?s???e?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s

Noun

disgrace (countable and uncountable, plural disgraces)

1. The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
2. The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame.

   Synonyms: dishonor, ignominy

3. (countable) Something which brings dishonor; the cause of reproach or shame; great discredit.
4. (obsolete) An act of unkindness; a disfavor.

Synonyms

• misgrace (far less common)

Related terms

• disgraceful
• disgraceless

Translations

Verb

disgrace (third-person singular simple present disgraces, present participle disgracing, simple past and past participle disgraced)

1. (transitive) To put someone out of favor; to bring shame or ignominy upon.

Translations

Further reading

• disgrace in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• disgrace in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”). Cognate with Middle Low German sluren (“to trail in mud”). Also related to dialectal Norwegian sløra (“to be careless, to scamp, dawdle”), Danish sløre (“to wobble, be loose”) (especially for wheels); compare Old Norse slóðra (“to drag oneself along”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(r)

Noun

slur (plural slurs)

1. An insult or slight.

2. (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
3. (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).

   Coordinate term: tie

4. (obsolete) A trick or deception.
5. In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

Derived terms

• f-slur

Translations

Verb

slur (third-person singular simple present slurs, present participle slurring, simple past and past participle slurred)

1. To insult or slight.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint

     And how men slur him, saying all his force
     Is melted into mere effeminacy?

2. To run together; to articulate poorly.
3. (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Busby to this entry?)

4. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cudworth to this entry?)

5. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.

   • With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.

6. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
   • 1662, Samuel Butler, Hudibras

     to slur men of what they fought for

7. (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

Derived terms

• slur over

Translations

Further reading

• Slur (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• URLs, lurs