Pub vs Pur - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between pub and pur

is that pub is a public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed and also provides food and sometimes entertainment, normally television viewing while pur is dated form of nodot=yes lang=en (low murmuring sound as of a cat.

As verbs the difference between pub and pur

is that pub is to go to one or more public houses while pur is dated form of nodot=yes lang=en.

As an initialism PUR is

polyurethane.

pub

English

Etymology 1

Short form of public, from public house

Noun

(wikipedia pub) (en noun)

A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed and also provides food and sometimes entertainment, normally television viewing.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub .}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* gastropub * pub crawl * pub quiz * superpub

Verb

(pubb)

To go to one or more public houses.

Etymology 2

(en) of (publication)

Noun

(en noun)

A publication.

registered pubs

Etymology 3

(en) of (publish)

Verb

(pubb)

(informal) to publish

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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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