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# blur

«blur» in Mova's school dictionary: **something you cannot see clearly because it is moving…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a blur, blurs); verb (blur, blurs, blurred, blurring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A blur is something you cannot see clearly because it is moving fast or out of focus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blur/#m1)

2) To blur is to make something unclear or smudgy, or to become unclear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blur/#m2)

3) A blur is also a memory or time you cannot remember clearly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blur/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life photos come out blurred if the camera moves; tears blur your eyes. In science (light and eyes) lenses focus light; people who need glasses see things as a blur. In stories fast things «go past in a blur». Phrase: «blur the line between» (make the difference less clear).

### examples

- The racing car was just a blur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blur/#x1)
- Without my glasses everything is a blur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blur/#x2)
- Tears blurred her eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blur/#x3)
- The photo is blurred because I moved. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blur/#x4)
- The whole day went by in a blur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blur/#x5)
- Rain blurred the view from the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blur/#x6)

### note

Double r in past forms: blurred, blurring. Adjective: blurry or blurred. Opposite: clear, sharp, in focus.

### In the corpora

- [People who did not agree to be filmed have their faces blurred; adults and children have a right to their privacy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/54-reality-tv-what-is-staged-and-what-is-real/21/)
- [Small AI programs hide in everyday things, such as phone cameras that sharpen photos and blur backgrounds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/13/)
- [Signs of concussion include headache, dizziness, feeling sick, blurred vision, confusion, forgetting things, wobbling and acting differently.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/47-a-knock-to-the-head-in-sport-if-in-doubt-sit-them-out/6/)
- [Air blurs and blocks some light, so big telescopes sit on high dry mountains, and some telescopes go up into space.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/27-telescopes-and-light/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blur» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blur/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.