slur vs snub

slur

verb
  • To insult or slight. 

  • To run together; to articulate poorly. 

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

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

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

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

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

  • An insinuation or innuendo. 

  • An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation. 

  • A mark, stain, or smear; (by extension) a slight occasion of reproach. 

  • A disparaging insult or slight, particularly one used to denigrate a specific group. 

  • A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation. 

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

snub

verb
  • To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone. 

  • To check; to reprimand. 

  • To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner. 

  • To turn down insultingly; to dismiss. 

  • To sob with convulsions. 

  • To stub out (a cigarette etc). 

  • To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of. 

adj
  • Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces. 

  • Conspicuously short. 

  • Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up. 

noun
  • A deliberate affront or slight. 

  • A sudden checking of a cable or rope. 

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