Pur vs Cur - What's the difference?
pur | cur |
(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 an adjective pur
is pure.As a noun cur is
heart.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 .
