slur

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An insult or slight, especially one that is muttered incoherently under one's breath.
2. isim An extremely offensive and socially unacceptable term targeted at a group of people (such as an ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.).

   “In interviews, current and former students of color described an environment rife with racial insensitivity, including casual uses of slurs.”

3. isim A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain.

   “a slur on one's reputation”

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

   “And now I'm drinking too much, so I'ma talk with a slur”

5. isim Any instance of separate things gradually blending together, such as heartbeats in some medical disorders.
6. isim A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
7. isim The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
8. fiil To insult or slight.

   “And how men slur him, saying all his force / Is melted into mere effeminacy?”

9. fiil To run together; to articulate poorly.

   “to slur syllables;  He slurs his speech when he is drunk.”

10. fiil To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.

    “Notes , the stems of which are joined together by cross lines, as in united quavers , semiquavers , & c . or notes over the heads of which a curve is drawn, to signify that they are to be slurred”

11. fiil To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

    “they do not only impudently slur the gospel, according to the history and the letter, in making it no better than a romantical legend[…]”

12. fiil To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.

    “With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.”

13. fiil To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.

    “to slur men of what they fought for”

14. fiil To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.