Slur
[slɜː] or [slɝ]
Definition
(noun.) (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato.
(verb.) utter indistinctly.
(verb.) speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; 'your comments are slurring your co-workers'.
(verb.) play smoothly or legato; 'the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata'.
Editor: Omar--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
(v. t.) To disparage; to traduce.
(v. t.) To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
(v. t.) To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
(v. t.) To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
(v. t.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
(v. t.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
(n.) A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
(n.) A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
(n.) 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.
(n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
Editor: Miles
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Reproach, traduce, asperse, disparage, speak of slightingly or disrespectfully.[2]. Disregard, slight, pass by, pass over, gloss over, slur over.
n. Reproach, stigma, stain, brand.
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Definition
v.t. to soil; to contaminate: to disgrace: to pass over lightly: to conceal: (mus.) to sing or play in a gliding manner.—v.i. (print.) to slip in making the impression causing the printing to be blurred:—pr.p. slur′ring; pa.t. and pa.p. slurred.—n. a stain: slight reproach or disparagement: (mus.) a mark showing that notes are to be sung to the same syllable.—p.adj. Slurred (mus.) marked with a slur performed in a gliding style like notes marked with a slur.
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Examples
- Thomasin thinks, and I think with her, that she ought to be Wildeve's wife, if she means to appear before the world without a slur upon her name. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- There was more than one slur on the Colonel that made people shy of him; but the blot of the Diamond is all I need mention here. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- One statement will emphasize what another slurs over. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It puts a premium on certain things and slurs over others, and creates a mind whose seeming unity is forced and distorted. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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