blur
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
copyright
engineering
graphical-user-interface
intellectual-property
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From earlier blurre, probably an alteration of blear, from Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian (attested in āblered (“made bare, made bald”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *blazjaną (“to make pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“pale”). Compare Scots blore, bloar (“to blur, cover with blots”), Low German bleeroged (“blear-eyed”). More at blear.
Inflected forms:
form: blurs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blurring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blurred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blurred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: blurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more blur
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blur
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
pos: verb
examples: to blur a photograph (by moving the camera while taking it)
gloss: To smear, stain or smudge.
pos: verb
examples: to blur a manuscript (by handling it while damp)
gloss: To become indistinct.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
pos: verb
examples: His eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare.
gloss: To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Sarcasms may eclipse thine own, / But cannot blur my lost renown.
gloss: To transfer the input focus away from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Then give this box focus to blur the first one: […]
These form elements need to have an onFocus event handler to blur the current focus.
Blurring one window and focusing on another window yields the same result of sending the window to the back of the pile.
A manual way to blur a text object is to press the Tab key, which advances focus to the next field in order and removes it from the current field (blurring it).
gloss: To use a sign, image, expression, etc. sufficiently close to a trademarked one that it causes confusion between them.
pos: verb
gloss: A smear, smudge or blot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something that appears hazy or indistinct.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The surroundings went by in a blur.
Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.
The fightback when it came was in the [Roger] Federer fashion: unfussy, filled with classy strokes from the back with perfectly timed interventions at the net that confounded his opponent. The third set passed in a bit of a blur, the fourth, which led to the second tie-break, was the most dramatic of the match.
gloss: Haziness, blurriness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Unfortunately, a small artificial pupil also tends to increase the amount of diffraction somewhat, but this increase in blur is considerably smaller than the decrease that results from the control of other factors.
The second option (right-hand page) features a sharp background and a cyclist who appears as a smudge of blur.
Selectively applying blur to the edges can give the impression of a toy camera or a tilt-shift lens.
gloss: A moral stain or blot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: […]with her raillyng sette a great blurre on myne honesty
gloss: Lacking awareness; clueless or confused.
pos: adj
tags: Manglish
Singlish
examples: If a Singaporean gets frustrated at your stupidity, he can scold you for being blur as sotong (clueless as a squid).
Even if you don't know, just pretend as if you know-lah Mike. You are embarrassing me you know. If you are so blur like this, how to accept you as my sidekick man?
Antonyms: sharpen
Derived words: ablur
beblur
blurrable
blurrer
blurringly
blur the line
blur the lines
deblur
nonblurring
unblur
anti-blur
blurless
blurry
Blursday
motion blur
zoom blur
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