Our vs Pur - What's the difference?
our | pur |
Belonging to us.
* 2008 , Mike Knudson & Steve Wilkinson, Raymond and Graham Rule the School
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(Northern England, Scotland) Used before a person's name to indicate that the person is in one's family, or is a very close friend.
(low murmuring sound as of a cat)
* 1895 , Jacob Mendes Da Costa, Medical diagnosis (page 294)
* John G. C. Brainard
* 1840 , The Visitor: Or, Monthly Instructor (page 182)
As a determiner our
is belonging to us.As an adjective pur is
pure.our
English
(wikipedia our)Determiner
- Paying no attention to Lizzy, Mrs. Gibson began calling out our names in alphabetical order.
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Stents to Prevent Stroke, passage=As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.}}
- Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.
See also
(English personal pronouns)pur
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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
- And there the wild-cat purs amid her brood.
- 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 .