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terms | pur |

As a noun terms

is .

As an adjective pur is

pure.

terms

English

Noun

(head)
  • Statistics

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    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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