different between slur vs imputation

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.

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

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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

English

Etymology

From Middle French imputation, from Latin imputatio.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??m.pj??te?.??n/

  Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

imputation (countable and uncountable, plural imputations)

1. The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription.
2. That which has been imputed or charged.
3. Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
4. (theology) A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another.

5. Opinion; intimation; hint.
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:

     All the legends of the past, and all the stupefying imputations of Henry Akeley’s letters and exhibits, welled up in my memory to heighten the atmosphere of tension and growing menace.

6. (statistics) The process of replacing missing data with substituted values.
7. (genetics) The statistical inference of unobserved genotypes.
8. (game theory) A distribution that is efficient and individually rational.

Related terms

• imputability
• imputable
• imputableness
• imputably
• imputational
• impute
• reimputation

Translations

References

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.py.ta.sj??/

Noun

imputation f (plural imputations)

1. imputation