slur🔊

An insult or slight.

An extremely offensive and socially unacceptable term targeted at a group of people (such as an ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.).

A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain.

An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.

Any instance of separate things gradually blending together, such as heartbeats in some medical disorders.

(music) (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.

(notation) (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).

To insult or slight.

To run together; to articulate poorly.

(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.

(dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them. {{rfv-sense|en}}