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Slur vs Surplus - What's the difference?

slur | surplus |

As nouns the difference between slur and surplus

is that slur is an insult or slight while surplus is that which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.

As a verb slur

is to insult or slight.

As an adjective surplus is

being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.

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.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , 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

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    surplus

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.
  • Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
  • (legal) The remainder of a fund appropriated for a particular purpose.
  • (legal) assets left after liabilities and debts, including capital stock have been deducted.

    • Antonyms

    * lack * deficit

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
    • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}