Slur vs Stumble - What's the difference?

slur | stumble |

As nouns the difference between slur and stumble

is that slur is an insult or slight while stumble is a fall, trip or substantial misstep.

As verbs the difference between slur and stumble

is that slur is to insult or slight while stumble is to trip or fall; to walk clumsily.

slur

English

Noun

(en noun)

An insult or slight.

(music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.

(music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).

(obsolete) A trick or deception.

In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

Verb

(slurr)

To insult or slight.

(Tennyson)

To run together; to articulate poorly.

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, title= Subtle effects , passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}

(label) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.

(Busby)

To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

(Cudworth)

To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.

To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.

* 1662 , , (Hudibras)

to slur men of what they fought for

To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

Derived terms

* slur over

Anagrams

stumble

English

Noun

(en noun)

A fall, trip or substantial misstep.

An error or blunder.

A clumsy walk.

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

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Synonyms

* (a blunder) blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, thinko * See also

Verb

(stumbl)

To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.

* Sir Walter Scott

He stumbled up the dark avenue.

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To make a mistake or have trouble.

To cause to stumble or trip.

(figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.

* Milton

False and dazzling fires to stumble men.

* John Locke

One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.

To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on'', ''upon'', or ''against .

* Dryden

Ovid stumbled , by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath.

* C. Smart

Forth as she waddled in the brake, / A grey goose stumbled on a snake.

Derived terms

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