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# {{lb|en|music}} To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly. |
# {{lb|en|music}} To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly. |
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#* '''1817''', {{w|Thomas Busby}}, ''A Dictionary of Music, Theoretical and Practical'' |
#* '''1817''', {{w|Thomas Busby}}, ''A Dictionary of Music, Theoretical and Practical'' |
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#*:Notes , the stems of which are |
#*:Notes , the stems of which are joined together by cross lines, as in united quavers , semiquavers , & c . or notes over the heads of which a curve is drawn, to signify that they are to be '''slurred''' |
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# To [[soil]]; to [[sully]]; to [[contaminate]]; to [[disgrace]]. |
# To [[soil]]; to [[sully]]; to [[contaminate]]; to [[disgrace]]. |
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#* {{RQ:Cudworth True}} |
#* {{RQ:Cudworth True}} |
Revision as of 16:17, 16 July 2021
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
Noun
slur (plural slurs)
- An insult or slight.
- a racial slur
- (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
Translations
insult or slight
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set of notes
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symbol indicating a legato passage
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Verb
slur (third-person singular simple present slurs, present participle slurring, simple past and past participle slurred)
- To insult or slight.
- Template:RQ:Tennyson MOG
- And how men slur him, saying all his force
Is melted into mere effeminacy?
- And how men slur him, saying all his force
- Template:RQ:Tennyson MOG
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
- to slur syllables; He slurs his speech when he is drunk.
- 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
- Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
- (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- 1817, Thomas Busby, A Dictionary of Music, Theoretical and Practical
- Notes , the stems of which are joined together by cross lines, as in united quavers , semiquavers , & c . or notes over the heads of which a curve is drawn, to signify that they are to be slurred
- 1817, Thomas Busby, A Dictionary of Music, Theoretical and Practical
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- Template:RQ:Cudworth True
- they do not only impudently slur the gospel, according to the history and the letter, in making it no better than a romantical legend […]
- Template:RQ:Cudworth True
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- Template:RQ:Dryden Satire
- With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.
- Template:RQ:Dryden Satire
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
- 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “(please specify the page)”, in Hudibras. The First Part. […], London: […] J. G. for Richard Marriot, […], →OCLC:
- to slur men of what they fought for
- (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
Derived terms
Translations
to insult or slight
to articulate poorly
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to play legato
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to soil, sully, to contaminate, disgrace
to cover over, disguise, conceal; to pass over with little notice
printing: to blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle
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Further reading
- Slur (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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