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Pur vs Puri - What's the difference?

pur | puri |

As nouns the difference between pur and puri

is that pur is dated form of nodot=yes lang=en (low murmuring sound as of a cat while puri is a type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan, usually deep-fried.

As a verb pur

is dated form of nodot=yes lang=en.

As an initialism PUR

is polyurethane.

As a proper noun Puri is

city in Orissa state, India, on the Bay of Bengal.

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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    puri

    English

    Alternative forms

    * poori, puree

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan, usually deep-fried.
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