slur
Nghĩa (English)
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- An insult or slight.
- An insult or slight.
- 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.
- A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
Synonyms
disparage
bad quality
bad point
raduce
drag one’s feet
encroach upon
Tính thường xuyên
Phát âm là (IPA)
/slɜː(ɹ)/
Từ nguyên (English)
In summary
From Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”). Cognate with Middle Low German sluren (“to trail in mud”). Also related to dialectal Norwegian sløra (“to be careless, to scamp, dawdle”), Danish sløre (“to wobble, be loose”) (especially for wheels); compare Old Norse slóðra (“to drag oneself along”). * (an extremely offensive term): Influenced by various compounds of sense 1 such as racial slur, ethnic slur, etc.
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