Burrname/bɝ/

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  A surname.

  • One Nation, a new 501(c)4 linked to the Karl-Rove-backed American Crossroads super PAC, is spending more than $1.9 million on print, radio and digital ads highlighting the efforts of Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey to pass the “doc fix” legislation that realigned payments to Medicare providers with inflation.
  • The US Securities and Exchange Commission has closed its insider trading investigation into stock trades made by then-Sen. Richard Burr and his brother-in-law at the outset of the pandemic, the former senator announced Friday.
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  A number of places in the United States:

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  A number of places in the United States:

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  A number of places in the United States:

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  A number of places in the United States:

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  A number of places in the United States:

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  A community in Rural Municipality of Wolverine No. 340, central Saskatchewan, Canada.

burrnoun詞源 1/bɝ/

• 1

  A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.

• 2

  A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.

  • You left a bunch of burrs on those parts yesterday. You've already been told not to miss the deburring operation.
  • But the graver, in ploughing furrows in the surface of the copper, raises corresponding ridges or burrs
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  A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.

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  historicalA broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the grip, to prevent the hand from slipping.

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  historicalA metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear.

  • And there kyng Arthur smote syr mordred vnder the shelde wyth a foyne of his spere thorughoute the body more than a fadom / And whan syr Mordred felte that he had hys dethes wounde / He thryst hym self wyth the myght that he had vp to the bur of kynge Arthurs spere / And right so he smote his fader Arthur wyth his swerde holden in bothe his handes
  • burr or ring of iron behind the hand
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  The ear lobe.

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  A burr knot or burl.

  • We notice wild bees gathering sap in a burr of the third mango tree[.]
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  The knot at the bottom of an antler.

burrverb詞源 1/bɝ/

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  engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo grind using a burr (revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces).

burrnoun詞源 2/bɝ/

• 1

  A rough humming sound.

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  A uvular "r" sound, or (by extension) an accent characterized by this sound.

  • Foote’s mimicry was exquisitely ludicrous, but it was all caricature. He could take off only some strange peculiarity, a stammer or a lisp, a Northumbrian burr or an Irish brogue, a stoop or a shuffle.
  • “That man Glass has been with him again; I heard them talking through the door quite plain. Two separate voices: for James speaks low, with a burr, and the other voice was high and quavery.”

burrverb詞源 2/bɝ/

• 1

  To pronounce with a uvular "r".

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  To make a rough humming sound.

  • The first thing Lucy noticed as she went in was a burring sound, and the first thing she saw was a kind-looking old she-beaver sitting in the corner with a thread in her mouth working busily at her sewing machine, and it was from it that the sound came.

burrnoun詞源 3/bɝ/

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  Synonym of brough (“halo around the sun or moon”)

  • Far burr, near rain; Near burr, far rain.
  • The larger the burr the nearer the rain.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• bur
• burl