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slur
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)
- An insult or slight.
- (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- (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
- (obsolete) A trick or deception.
- 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)
- To insult or slight.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint
- And how men slur him, saying all his force
Is melted into mere effeminacy?
- And how men slur him, saying all his force
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
- (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Busby to this entry?)
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cudworth to this entry?)
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
- 1662, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
- to slur men of what they fought for
- 1662, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
- (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
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blacken
English
Etymology
From Middle English blaknen, blakkenen, equivalent to black +? -en (verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?blæk?n/
- Rhymes: -æk?n
Verb
blacken (third-person singular simple present blackens, present participle blackening, simple past and past participle blackened)
- (transitive, causative) To cause to be or become black.
- (intransitive, ergative) To become black.
- (transitive, causative) To make dirty.
- To defame or sully.
- (transitive) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
Synonyms
- (make black): black, denigrate
- (make dirty): dirty, soil
- (defame): defame, denigrate, sully, taint, tarnish
Translations
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