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Blurring vs Blurry - What's the difference?

blurring | blurry |

As a verb blurring

is .

As a noun blurring

is a blurry patch.

As an adjective blurry is

(of an image) not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.

blurring

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A blurry patch.
  • * 1990 , Donald O. Thompson, ?Dale E. Chimenti, Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation
    • Several attempts were made to remove the blurrings in the tomograms.

    blurry

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of an image) Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.
    • If I take off my glasses, everything close up looks blurry .
  • (figuratively) not clear, not with well-defined boundaries.
    • It would seem that the line between flirting and sexual harrassment has become quite blurry.

    Derived terms

    * blurriness