Definitions for bur
bɜrbur

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bur, burrnoun

   seed vessel having hooks or prickles

2. bur, burrverb

   small bit used in dentistry or surgery

3. bur, burrverb

   remove the burrs from

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. burnoun

   A rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants.

2. burnoun

   Any of several plants having such husks.

3. burnoun

   A rotary cutting implement having a selection of variously shaped heads.

4. Etymology: From Germanic *būraz. Cognate with Old Saxon būr, Old High German būr (German Bauer ‘birdcage’), Old Norse búr (Swedish bur).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bur, Bour, Bor

   Etymology: come from the Sax. bur , an inner-chamber, or place of shade and retirement. Edmund Gibson Camden.

2. Burnoun

   A rough head of a plant, which sticks to the hair or cloaths.

   Etymology: bourre, Fr. is down; the bur being filled with a soft tomentum, or down.

   Nothing teems,
   But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs,
   Losing both beauty and utility. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

   Hang off, thou cat, thou bur; vile thing, let loose;
   Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent. William Shakespeare.

   Dependents and suitors are always the burs, and sometimes the briers of favourites. Henry Wotton.

   Whither betake her
   From the chill dew, amongst rude burs and thistles. John Milton.

   And where the vales with violets once were crown’d,
   Now knotty burs and thorns disgrace the ground. Dryden.

   A fellow stuck like a bur, that there was no shaking him off. John Arbuthnot, Hist. of J. Bull.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bur

   A bur is a type of seed or dry fruit in which the outer surface catches onto fur or clothing. Often, these burs help in seed dispersal for plants. The term is also used in reference to a rotary cutting tool used in dentistry and other precision jobs.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Burnoun

   alt. of Burr

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bur

   Burr, bur, the prickly seed-case or head of certain plants, which sticks to clothes: any impediment or inconvenient adherent: any lump, ridge, &c., more or less sharp, a knot on a tree, knot in thread, knob at the base of a deer's horn, &c.: waste raw silk: the sweetbread or pancreas: (Scot.) club-moss: the name for various tools and appliances, as the triangular chisel for clearing the corners of mortises, &c.: the blank driven out of a piece of sheet-metal by a punch: a partly vitrified brick.—ns. Bur′dock, a dock with a bur or prickly head; Bur′-this′tle, the spear-thistle.—Bur in the throat, something seeming to stick in the throat, producing a choking sensation. [Cog. with Dan. borre, a bur.]

2. Bur

   Burr, bur, n. the rough sound of r pronounced in the throat, as in Northumberland—v.i. to whisper hoarsely, to murmur. [Usually associated with preceding, but perh. from the sound.]

3. Bur

   bur, n. in an engraving, a slight ridge of metal raised on the edges of a line by the graver or the dry point, producing an effect like a smear, but dexterously used by some etchers, as Rembrandt, to deepen their shadows.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bur

   The etymologically of various spellings for bōr / bor / boor / bour / būr / bur has been diversely associated with the New Persian lexeme bur / būr / bōr

   
   

   Submitted by Borbor on January 9, 2022  

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1. BUR

   What does BUR stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the BUR acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BUR

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bur is ranked #40909 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Bur surname appeared 533 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bur.
   
   84.4% or 450 total occurrences were White.
   6.7% or 36 total occurrences were Black.
   3.3% or 18 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.4% or 13 total occurrences were Asian.
   1.8% or 10 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.1% or 6 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Remove
   • Seed Vessel

Anagrams for bur »

1. RUB

2. rub

How to pronounce bur?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say bur in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bur in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bur in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of bur in a Sentence

1. Leslie Jordan a special Emmy:

   They stopped for lunch and mama asked the girl,' Where are we we, how do we pronounce it, that girl said' BUR-GER King.' Y' all think I made that up. You can't make this s *** up.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bur
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bur
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=bur
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bur
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=bur
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html