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Slur vs Taint - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between slur and taint

is that slur is the symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie) while taint is the perineum.

In obsolete terms the difference between slur and taint

is that slur is a trick or deception while taint is infection; corruption; deprivation.

As nouns the difference between slur and taint

is that slur is an insult or slight while taint is a contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.

As verbs the difference between slur and taint

is that slur is to insult or slight while taint is to contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.

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

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    taint

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) tingere, tinctum via (etyl) teint (past participle of )

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A (l), (l) or (l), especially in (l)
  • A mark of (l), especially on one's (l); blemish
  • (obsolete) tincture; hue; colour
  • (obsolete) infection; corruption; deprivation
    • He had inherited from his parents a scrofulous taint , which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove. — Macaulay.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To (l) or (l) (something) with an external (l), either (l) or (l).
  • * Shakespeare
    • His unkindness may defeat my life, / But never taint my love.
  • To (l) (food) by (l).
  • To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I cannot taint with fear.
  • To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
    • Meat soon taints in warm weather.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Compare with attaint.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A (l) with a (l), which fails of its intended (l).
  • An (l) done to a (l) in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a (l) or unscientific manner.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
  • * Massinger
    • Do not fear; I have / A staff to taint , and bravely.
  • To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
  • * Ld. Berners
    • They tainted each other on the helms and passed by.
  • To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

    • Etymology 3

    Reportedly from the phrase “ your balls and 'tain't your ass”.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) The (l).
  • * 2000 June 17, "Marc Newman" (username), " Re: Americas are overated", in talk.politics.guns, Usenet :
    • Sorry you feel that way. But since your mother sucks cocks in hell if I go there I won't be rotting.....I'll be on line right behind you hoping to get another good head job from your Mom or Sister....if you can remember which is which.......(Moms the one with the beard on her taint )
  • * 2005 July 14, "Noodles Jefferson" (username), " Re: My Wife's Raw Comments", in rec.sport.pro-wrestling, Usenet :
    • Even her taint 's raw?
  • * 2010 February 22, "Duchamanos" (username), " Re: Huck Finn 2010-anyone going?", in rec.sport.disc, Usenet :
    • Did you know that guy has absolutely no tan lines? He'll show his taint to prove it!

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