slur meaning
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[slɜː(r)] [-ɜː(r)] WSlur
- Slur may refer to:
- Pejorative, any term of disparagement
- Slur (phonology), unclear or abnormal enunciation
- Slur (music), a symbol in Western musical notation indicating that the notes it embraces are to be played legato (smoothly)
- Slur, a character in Mega Man Battle Network; see List of Mega Man Battle Network characters
- NounPLslurs
- 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).
- (obsolete) A trick or deception.
- In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
- An insult or slight.
- VerbSGslursPRslurringPT, PPslurred
- To insult or slight.
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
- to slur syllables; He slurs his speech when he is drunk.
- (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
- (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
- To insult or slight.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- 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.
- to slur syllables; He slurs his speech when he is drunk.
- Davis is out to remove the slur of moral uptightness and narrow virtue from Malamuds reputation.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of slur in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "slur" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.