Pur vs Tur - What's the difference?
pur | tur |
(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)
A species of wild goat, , native to the western Caucasus.
* 2007 , Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road , Sceptre 2008, page 90:
As an adjective pur
is pure.As a proper noun tur is
.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 .
tur
English
Noun
(en noun)- Then to Hanukkah's mild surprise a voice rose up and, with laconic precision, likened this rumored brother Alp to the secretion on the nether parts of a she-tur .
