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Dur vs Pur - What's the difference?

dur | pur |

As an adjective dur

is major; in the major mode.

As an abbreviation DUR

is durango, a state of Mexico.

As a noun pur is

dated form of nodot=yes lang=en (low murmuring sound as of a cat.

As a verb pur is

dated form of nodot=yes lang=en.

As an initialism PUR is

polyurethane.

dur

English

Adjective

(-)
  • major; in the major mode
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    pur

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (low murmuring sound as of a cat)
  • * 1895 , Jacob Mendes Da Costa, Medical diagnosis (page 294)
    • The first — called by Laennec, from its resemblance to the pur of a cat, the purring tremor — is nearly always indicative of a valvular lesion. The second is caused by the to-and-fro motion of a roughened pericardium.

    Verb

  • * John G. C. Brainard
    • And there the wild-cat purs amid her brood.
  • * 1840 , The Visitor: Or, Monthly Instructor (page 182)
    • It appears to me, past all doubt, that its [the goatsucker's] notes are formed by organic impulse, by the parts of its windpipe formed for sound, just as cats pur .
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