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Meaning Of Slur
v. t.
To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
v. t.
To disparage; to traduce.
v. t.
To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over
lightly or with little notice.
v. t.
To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
v. t.
To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
v. t.
To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect
smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
v. t.
To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
n.
A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a
stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
n.
A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
n.
A mark, thus [/ or /], 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.
n.
In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the
sinkers successively by passing over them.