SLURRING

SLUR

blur, dim, slur

(verb) become vague or indistinct; “The distinction between the two theories blurred”

slur

(verb) utter indistinctly

slur

(verb) speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; “your comments are slurring your co-workers”

slur

(verb) play smoothly or legato; “the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

slurring

present participle of slur

Noun

slurring (plural slurrings)

A slur mark in music.

Source: Wiktionary


SLUR

Slur, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slurred; p. pr. & vb. n. Slurring.] Etym: [Cf. OE. sloor mud, clay, Icel. sl, slo, to trail or drag one's self along, D. sleuren, sloren, to train, to drag, to do negligently and slovenly, D. sloor, sloerie, a sluttish girl.]

1. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace. Cudworth.

2. To disparage; to traduce. Tennyson.

3. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice. With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes. Dryden.

4. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. [R.] To slur men of what they fought for. Hudibras.

5. To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.

6. (Mus.)

Definition: To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones. Busby.

7. (Print.)

Definition: To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

Slur, n.

1. A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. "Gaining to his name a lasting slur." South.

2. A trick played upon a person; an imposition. [R.]

3. (Mus.)

Definition: A mark, thus [&upslur; 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.

4. In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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