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Knit vs Slur - What's the difference?

knit | slur |

As verbs the difference between knit and slur

is that knit is and To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine while slur is to insult or slight.

As a noun slur is

an insult or slight.

knit

English

(Knitting)

Verb

  • and To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.
    • to knit a stocking
    The first generation knitted''' to order; the second still '''knits''' for its own use; the next leaves '''knitting to industrial manufacturers.
  • (figuratively) To join closely and firmly together.
    • The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
  • * Wiseman
    • Nature cannot knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit .
  • * Milton
    • Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, / In a light fantastic round.
  • * Tennyson
    • A link among the days, to knit / The generations each to each.
  • To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
  • To grow together.
    • All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.
  • To combine from various elements.
    • The witness knitted his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.
  • To heal (of bones) following a fracture.
    • I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit .''
  • To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
  • * Bible, Acts x. 11
    • a great sheet knit at the four corners
  • * Shakespeare
    • When your head did but ache, / I knit my handkercher about your brows.
  • To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He knits his brow and shows an angry eye.

    Derived terms

    * close-knit * knit one's brow / knit one's brows * knitter * knitting * knitting needle * knitwear * stick to one's knitting

    See also

    * tricot * weave

    Anagrams

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    slur

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • Verb

    (slurr)
  • To insult or slight.
    • (Tennyson)
  • To run together; to articulate poorly.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Subtle effects , passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
  • (label) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
    • (Busby)
  • To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
    • (Cudworth)
  • To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
    • With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.
  • To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
  • * 1662 , , (Hudibras)
    • to slur men of what they fought for
  • To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

    • Derived terms

    * slur over

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