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Definition of 'slur'English
Noun
( en-noun)
An insult or slight.
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(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).
(obsolete) A trick or deception.
In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
Verb
( slurr)
To insult or slight.
- (Tennyson)
To run together; to articulate poorly.
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*{{quote-magazine|date=2014-04-21|volume=411|issue=8884|magazine=(The Economist)
|title= Subtle effects
|passage=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.}}
(label) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- (Busby)
To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- (Cudworth)
To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
- With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.
To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
* 1662 , , (Hudibras)
- to slur men of what they fought for
To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
Derived terms
* slur over
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