slurs
Dictionary
noun
- An insult or slight.
"a racial slur"
- A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
- A trick or deception.
- In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
verb
- To insult or slight.
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
"to slur syllables; He slurs his speech when he is drunk."
- 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.
- To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
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