Blot vs. Slur — What's the Difference?

A spot or a stain caused by a discoloring substance

To pronounce indistinctly.

An association of disgrace with one's character or reputation.

To talk about disparagingly or insultingly.

A laboratory technique, such as a Southern blot analysis, that involves electrophoretically separating proteins or nucleic acids and transferring them to a membrane.

To pass over lightly or carelessly; treat without due consideration.

The membrane onto which these proteins or nucleic acids have been transferred.

To glide over (a series of notes) smoothly without a break.

(Games) An exposed piece in backgammon.

To mark with a slur.

(Archaic) A weak point.

(Printing) To blur or smear.

To soak up or dry with absorbent material. Often used with up

A disparaging remark; an aspersion.

To make obscure or invisible; hide. Often used with out

A slurred utterance or sound.

To render invisible or unreadable by marking; obliterate. Often used with out

A curved line connecting notes on a score to indicate that they are to be played or sung legato.

To remove or block from personal memory or public remembrance. Often used with out

A passage played or sung in this manner.

To spot or stain, as with a discoloring substance

(Printing) A smeared or blurred impression.

To bring moral disgrace to

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

To spill or spread in a spot or stain.

An insinuation or innuendo.

To become blotted, soaked up, or absorbed.

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

A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.

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

(by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.

(music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.

(biochemistry) A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.

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

(backgammon) An exposed piece in backgammon.

(obsolete) A trick or deception.

(transitive) to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.

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

(intransitive) to soak up or absorb liquid.

To insult or slight.

(transitive) To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.

To run together; to articulate poorly.

(transitive) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

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

(transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.

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

(transitive) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.

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

(transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.

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

(transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

To sell illegal drugs, to deal, to push.

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

To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

To disparage; to traduce.

To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.

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

To stain with infamy; to disgrace.

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

To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; - generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses.

To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables; to slur one's words.

To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.

To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.

To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.

A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.

A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.

A trick played upon a person; an imposition.

An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.

A mark, thus [

A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.

In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

An exposure of a single man to be taken up.

(music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato

A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.

A disparaging remark;

A blemish made by dirt;

A blemish made by dirt;

An act that brings discredit to the person who does it;

Play smoothly or legato;

Dry (ink) with blotting paper

Speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur;

Make a spot or mark onto;

Utter indistinctly

Become vague or indistinct;