slur

Etymology 1
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬. Also related to dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (especially for wheels); compare 🇨🇬.


 * Influenced by various compounds of sense 1 such as racial slur, ethnic slur, etc.

Noun

 * 1) An insult or slight.
 * 2) An extremely offensive and socially unacceptable term targeted at a group of people (such as an ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.).
 * 3) A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain.
 * 4) An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
 * 5) Any instance of separate things gradually blending together, such as heartbeats in some medical disorders.
 * 6)   A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
 * 7)   The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
 * 1) An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
 * 2) Any instance of separate things gradually blending together, such as heartbeats in some medical disorders.
 * 3)   A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
 * 4)   The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
 * 1) Any instance of separate things gradually blending together, such as heartbeats in some medical disorders.
 * 2)   A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
 * 3)   The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: gafume,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: sértő/becsmérlő megjegyzés/kifejezés, ,
 * Irish: tarcaisne
 * Japanese:, 軽蔑語, 卑罵語
 * Maori: tīkai
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: клеветни́ческое обвине́ние, оскорби́тельный намёк,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Turkish: ,


 * Finnish: legato-jakso
 * Maori: rōnaki


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: legatoboog
 * Finnish: sidekaari, legato-kaari
 * French: liaison d'expression, ,
 * German: Bindebogen
 * Italian: legatura di portamento, legatura di frase, legatura di espressione
 * Portuguese: ligadura
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ceangal
 * Spanish:, ligadura de expresión,
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1) To insult or slight.
 * 2) To run together; to articulate poorly.
 * 3)  To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
 * 4) To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
 * 5) To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
 * 6) To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
 * 7)  To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
 * 1) To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
 * 2) To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
 * 3) To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
 * 4)  To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
 * 1) To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
 * 2)  To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
 * 1)  To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: aithisigh
 * Italian:
 * Maori: tīkai
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish:, sopertaa
 * French: mal articuler
 * German: undeutlich reden
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 舌がもつれる
 * Macedonian: слева
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, глота́ть (слова)
 * Serbo-Croatian:, nerazgovetno govoriti, nerazgovjetno govoriti, plesti jezikom
 * Spanish:, arrastrar las palabras
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Macedonian: слева


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * Finnish:, , pitää salassa; sujauttaa
 * French:


 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,


 * French:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:

Noun

 * 1) In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.