Slur : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Slur	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Slur
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slur n (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato a disparaging remark; "in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion"; "it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility" Synonym(s): aspersion, slur a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" Synonym(s): smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur v play smoothly or legato; "the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata" speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; "your comments are slurring your co-workers" utter indistinctly become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred" Synonym(s): blur, dim, slur Antonym(s): focalise, focalize, focus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slur \Slur\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slurred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slurring}.] [Cf. OE. sloor mud, clay, Icel. sl[?]ra, slo[?]ra, to trail or drag one's self along, D. sleuren, sloren, to train, to drag, to do negligently and slovenly, D. sloor, sloerie, a sluttish girl.] 1. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace. --Cudworth. 2. To disparage; to traduce. --Tennyson. 3. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice. With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes. --Dryden. 4. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. [R.] To slur men of what they fought for. --Hudibras. 5. To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables. 6. (Mus.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones. --Busby. 7. (Print.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slur \Slur\, n. 1. A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. [bd]Gaining to his name a lasting slur.[b8] --South. 2. A trick played upon a person; an imposition. [R.] 3. (Mus.) A mark, thus [[upslur] or [downslur]], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato. 4. In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.