(v. t.) To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink.
(v. t.) To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
(v. t.) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
(n.) That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.
(n.) A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur.
(n.) A moral stain or blot.
Example Sentences:
(1) The spatial spread or blur parameter of the blobs was adopted as a scale parameter.
(2) One subject reported slight transient faintness and visual blurring after 20 mg of the drug.
(3) There is also a continued blurring of the lines between games and other entertainment media.
(4) The relationships between dioptric blur, pupil size, retinal eccentricity, and retinal sensitivity were investigated in the central 5 degrees of the visual field in 10 normal subjects using the Humphrey Field Analyzer.
(5) Moments later Gary is being ushered out in a blur of drivers and batmen and image-straighteners.
(6) The definition of the blurring of narrow beam rotation radiography is revived.
(7) Two principles have to be considered: 1. the image of a curved surface will only show the surface area where the rays form a tangent to the surface; 2. in tomography the blurring of the image increases with an increase of the tomographic angle and the distance of the object to the plane in focus.
(8) Presenting complaints included blurred vision, visual field scotoma, and a field defect.
(9) Back in Christchurch, as my day goes on, at least some of these intergenerational questions start to feel a little more blurred.
(10) We have been able to remove the rotational blur from each of the fibers in the unit cell using the procedures described by Carragher et al.
(11) The thresholds for both tasks increased linearly with decreasing resolution (increasing blur), for a constant ratio of the resolution parameter and the separation of the outer two blobs.
(12) A patient with recurrent weakness and blurring of consciousness associated with hyperkalaemia due to aldosterone deficiency is reported.
(13) Towards the end, as entire eras wheeled past in a blur, I realised the programme itself would outlive me, and began desperately scrawling notes that described the broadcast's initial few centuries for the benefit of any descendants hoping to pick up from where I left off.
(14) The data indicate that target proximity will influence AR even when both blur and vergence cues have been stabilized.
(15) Determination of degree of blur is done by calculating a focusing measure for each point in each base image and a composite image is then constructed using only the unblurred regions from each base image.
(16) --Minimum power output of 100 mA at 25 kVp desirable to avoid movement blurring in contact grid work.
(17) The use of axial rather than planar blurring and intensifier camera filming rather than radiography does not reduce the clinical usefulness of the method.
(18) To determine the effect of optically induced blur on the visual field measured with high pass spatially filtered targets, 10 normal subjects had field examinations with 0 diopter + 1.00 diopter or + 2.00 diopter of overcorrection in the cyclopleged state.
(19) It is causing damage at every level and it needs to be addressed.” Smith said her desire to reach out to all audiences and blur the boundaries between the art forms had been a motivating factor in her taking on the role of guest director of this year’s Brighton arts festival, one of the biggest cultural events in the UK, now in its 49 th year.
(20) Part of the appeal for the authors of the course format described here is the blurring of that distinction.
Murk
Definition:
(a.) Dark; murky.
(n.) Darkness; mirk.
(n.) The refuse of fruit, after the juice has been expressed; marc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Children and the elderly were urged to stay indoors and some residents who ventured out wore face masks as the acrid murk entered its third day.
(2) But far from clearing the murk that always surrounds News Corporation's dealings with elected power, he has greatly thickened the fog.
(3) Still, even today you can't poke your head out into an old New York building's rear light well without smelling the greed that forced so many to live in ill-ventilated murk.
(4) Every time you close your eyes, an imaginary gay man's imaginary penis rises from the murk, bowing ominously in your direction, sensing your discomfort.
(5) You have to admire the way the Indie keeps going through so much murk.
(6) Then, back in the murk, it may be easier to decide whether the deliberations of 115 world leaders have made the slightest bit of difference.
(7) Labor has been extremely concerned about the impact of this murk on marginal seat campaigns in NSW.
(8) However, at least in some quarters, there is a great will to encourage innovation and avoid the murk that accompanied gene patenting.
(9) But you have to be a pretty implacable Murdoch foe (or career politician) to try to turn misty murk into freezing fog.
(10) Only forecasters talk about “winteriness”, “spits and spots” or “mist and murk”.
(11) That’s the new media, that’s why things go viral.” Social media has deepened the murk.
(12) The words are hard to make out in the reverb-drenched murk.
(13) This may be wrong, of course, but the sudden haste with which Mr Osborne has acted, and the murk that surrounds this decision, is puzzling.
(14) There was, however, an exception, a shaft of clarity and brilliance in the prevailing murk.
(15) Never escaping the murk becomes a moral and spiritual failure.
(16) The fourteenth reported patient with Murk Jansen's metaphyseal chondrodysplasia is presented, with a remarkable followup from birth to the age of 15 years.
(17) In the opaque world of Chinese censorship, a few red lines shine through the murk.
(18) Upcoming debut album Spiritual Songs For Lovers To Sing was overseen by recent Björk collaborator Bobby Krlic AKA The Haxan Cloak, setting up an interesting tension between his trademark digital murk (exemplified by his 2013 album Excavation) and the heart-on-sleeve crusading of two of Roberts’s biggest musical heroes, Joe Strummer and Bruce Springsteen.