Blot vs Slur - What's the difference?
blot | slur |
A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
* Shakespeare
(by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
* Shakespeare
(biochemistry) The Southern blot analysis (and derived Northern and Western) analytical techniques.
(backgammon) an exposed piece in backgammon.
to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
to soak up or absorb liquid.
To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
* Gascoigne
To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
* Shakespeare
To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
* Rowe
To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out .
* Dryden
To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
* Cowley
An insult or slight.
(music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
(music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
(obsolete) A trick or deception.
In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
To insult or slight.
To run together; to articulate poorly.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (label) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
* 1662 , , (Hudibras)
To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
As nouns the difference between blot and slur
is that blot is a norse pagan ritual sacrifice, now performed by the followers of asatru while slur is an insult or slight.As a verb slur is
to insult or slight.blot
English
Noun
(en noun)- inky blots
- This deadly blot in thy digressing son.
Verb
- This paper blots easily.
- The briefe was writte and blotted all with gore.
- It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.
- Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood.
- to blot out a word or a sentence
- One act like this blots out a thousand crimes.
- He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.
Derived terms
* blotting paper * blot outAnagrams
* ----slur
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(slurr)- (Tennyson)
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- (Busby)
- (Cudworth)
- With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.
- to slur men of what they fought for
