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#*: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''' |
#*: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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# To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice. |
# To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice. |
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#* {{RQ:Dryden Juvenal Satires|1|passage=With periods, points, and tropes, he '''slurs''' his crimes.}} |
#* {{RQ:Dryden Juvenal Satires|1|passage=With periods, points, and tropes, he '''slurs''' his crimes.}} |
Revision as of 04:42, 16 October 2022
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, particularly one used to denigrate a specific group.
- 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.
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 6:
- And how men slur him, saying all his force / Is melted into mere effeminacy?
- 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.
- 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
- they do not only impudently slur the gospel, according to the history and the letter, in making it no better than a romantical legend […]
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The First Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
- With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.
- 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
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to articulate poorly
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to play legato
to soil, sully, to contaminate, disgrace
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to cover over, disguise, conceal; to pass over with little notice
to cheat; to trick
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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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