Slur

Noun

 * 1) An insult or slight.
 * 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.
 * 1)  The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes.

Verb

 * 1) To insult or slight.
 * 2) To run together; to articulate poorly.
 * He slurs his speech when he is drunk.
 * 1)  To play legato or without separate articulation.

Thesaurus
accent, accent mark, affront, asperse, aspersion, attaint, bad-mouth, badge of infamy, bar, bar sinister, baton, bedaub, befoul, bend sinister, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, bespatter, bestain, black eye, black mark, blacken, blink, blot, blow upon, blur, brand, broad arrow, calumniate, calumny, cancel, cantando, carefully ignore, cast aspersions on, cast reflections on, censure, champain, character, cold-shoulder, custos, cut a corner, cut corners, darken, daub, defame, defile, demilegato, denigrate, dip into, direct, dirty, disapprove, discolor, discredit, disparage, disparagement, disregard, dodge, dot, examine cursorily, execution, expose, expose to infamy, expression, expression mark, fermata, fingering, fudge, garble, gibbet, give the once-over, glance at, glissando, gloss over, hang in effigy, hold, ignore, imputation, innuendo, insinuation, insult, intonation, key signature, lead, legato, libel, ligature, lisp, malign, mark, mark of Cain, measure, metronomic mark, mezzo staccato, mumble, music-making, notation, obloquy, odium, onus, page through, parlando, pass over, pass over lightly, pause, performance, personal remark, personality, pianism, pillory, pillorying, pizzicato, point champain, presa, put-down, reflection, rendering, rendition, repercussion, reprimand, reproach, rubato, scamp, scan, scorch, sear, segno, sign, signature, singe, skid, skim, skim over, skim the surface, skimp, skip over, slam, slander, slidder, slight, slip, slip through, slubber, slubber over, slur over, sly suggestion, smear, smirch, smoke, smudge, smutch, soil, spiccato, spot, staccato, stain, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stigmatize, stricture, stutter, suggestion, sully, swell, symbol, taint, tarnish, tear down, tempo mark, thumb through, tie, time signature, touch, touch upon, touch upon lightly, traduce, uncomplimentary remark, vilify, vinculum, whispering campaign, zip through

Etymology
From slore:. Compare Old Norse slóðra:. Cognate with Middle Low German sluren:. Related to dialect Norwegian sløra:, Danish sløre: (especially for wheels).

Noun

 * Finnish: ,


 * Polish:


 * Dutch: legatoboog
 * French: liaison d'expression, ,
 * German: Bindebogen
 * Italian: legatura di portamento, legatura di frase, legatura di espressione


 * Russian: легато
 * Spanish:, ligadura de expresión
 * Swedish: bindebåge

Verb

 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish: ,
 * French: mal articuler
 * German: undeutlich


 * Macedonian: слева
 * Portuguese:


 * Macedonian: слева

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