Blur
verb
Make or become unclear or less distinct.
His vision blurred as tears welled up in his eyes.
verb
Cause to become indistinct and hazy in outline.
Clouds blurred the sun.
noun
Something that you cannot see clearly, often because it is moving too fast.
The car sped past in a blur.
verb
To make something difficult to remember exactly.
The years blurred into a haze of hard work and little free time.
noun
A thing preventing clear perception or understanding.
The blur of color similarities made it difficult to distinguish the different species of flower.
verb
Make or become unclear or less distinct.
His vision blurred as tears welled up in his eyes.
verb
Cause to become indistinct and hazy in outline.
Clouds blurred the sun.
noun
Something that you cannot see clearly, often because it is moving too fast.
The car sped past in a blur.
verb
To make something difficult to remember exactly.
The years blurred into a haze of hard work and little free time.
noun
A thing preventing clear perception or understanding.
The blur of color similarities made it difficult to distinguish the different species of flower.
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Pro Tip 1/2Visual Impairment
Use 'blur' when something is hard to see, like when eyesight is affected.
After staring at the screen, the text started to blur.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Effect
Describe a situation where strong emotions make it hard to see clearly.
Overwhelmed with joy, the bride's face blurred through the guests' happy tears.
Pro Tip 1/2Visual Impairment
Use 'blur' when something is hard to see, like when eyesight is affected.
After staring at the screen, the text started to blur.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Effect
Describe a situation where strong emotions make it hard to see clearly.
Overwhelmed with joy, the bride's face blurred through the guests' happy tears.
Pro Tip 1/2Visual Impairment
Use 'blur' when something is hard to see, like when eyesight is affected.
After staring at the screen, the text started to blur.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Effect
Describe a situation where strong emotions make it hard to see clearly.
Overwhelmed with joy, the bride's face blurred through the guests' happy tears.
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The history of our world...
bang! A universe appears, an entire universe. And we've crossed our first threshold. The universe is tiny; it's smaller than an atom. It's incredibly hot. It contains everything that's in today's universe, so you can imagine, it's busting. And it's expanding at incredible speed. And at first, it's just a blur,
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Why do we see illusions?...
All of these objects flow outwards and they leave trails, or blur lines, on your retina. They're activating mini-neurons all in a row. So, this is a version of what happens in real life and this another version of what happens in real life all the time. In fact, cartoonists know about this.
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Net-Casting Spider...
and it happens in such a fast time if you only had your eyesight you would hardly see anything a blur it would just be a blur and what would be great is to get this filmed in super slow-mo it would just be amazing like most spiders net casters have eight
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The science of...
respect than we do our relatives and romantic partners I don't criticize the way my friend loads the dishwasher and when I disagree with them I try to do it gently the science of friendship blurs those lines it suggests we should invest
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What makes a poem … a...
with just three lines of five, seven, and five syllables. The waters of poetry run wide and deep. Poetry has evolved over time, and perhaps now more than ever, the line between poetry, prose, song, and visual art has blurred.
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Why is this painting so...
But the painting obscures their struggle to provide food for their household. Even the monarch's advanced age is concealed through the blurring of the mirror. What we do see in the geometric center of the canvas,
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How we'll become cyborgs...
within our nature, a world in which what is biological and what is not, what is human and what is not, what is nature and what is not will be forever blurred. That future will provide humanity new bodies.
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Different ways of...
guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know. I'm an extreme example of this. My worlds of words and numbers blur with color, emotion
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What I learned as a...
but I believe that we were representing the human race. Now I'm back home and back to my life. The memory of these people has blurred as time has passed.
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Inside the Tripper's...
receptors in the cortex and deep brain structures users see images that don't really exist blurring the line between perception and imagination
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The history of our world...
bang! A universe appears, an entire universe. And we've crossed our first threshold. The universe is tiny; it's smaller than an atom. It's incredibly hot. It contains everything that's in today's universe, so you can imagine, it's busting. And it's expanding at incredible speed. And at first, it's just a blur,
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Why do we see illusions?...
All of these objects flow outwards and they leave trails, or blur lines, on your retina. They're activating mini-neurons all in a row. So, this is a version of what happens in real life and this another version of what happens in real life all the time. In fact, cartoonists know about this.
Video examples
Net-Casting Spider...
and it happens in such a fast time if you only had your eyesight you would hardly see anything a blur it would just be a blur and what would be great is to get this filmed in super slow-mo it would just be amazing like most spiders net casters have eight
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The science of...
respect than we do our relatives and romantic partners I don't criticize the way my friend loads the dishwasher and when I disagree with them I try to do it gently the science of friendship blurs those lines it suggests we should invest
Video examples
What makes a poem … a...
with just three lines of five, seven, and five syllables. The waters of poetry run wide and deep. Poetry has evolved over time, and perhaps now more than ever, the line between poetry, prose, song, and visual art has blurred.
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Why is this painting so...
But the painting obscures their struggle to provide food for their household. Even the monarch's advanced age is concealed through the blurring of the mirror. What we do see in the geometric center of the canvas,
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How we'll become cyborgs...
within our nature, a world in which what is biological and what is not, what is human and what is not, what is nature and what is not will be forever blurred. That future will provide humanity new bodies.
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Different ways of...
guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know. I'm an extreme example of this. My worlds of words and numbers blur with color, emotion
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What I learned as a...
but I believe that we were representing the human race. Now I'm back home and back to my life. The memory of these people has blurred as time has passed.
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Inside the Tripper's...
receptors in the cortex and deep brain structures users see images that don't really exist blurring the line between perception and imagination
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Taylor Swift
American Singer
Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
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Alexandra Petri
American Journalist
There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together.
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Bryan Adams
Canadian Musician
I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
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Carrie Ann Inaba
American Dancer
My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything is a blur. I put my contacts in when I'm ready to deal with the world.
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Brad Feld
American Businessman
While the line between stress, deep anxiety, and depression often blurs, most entrepreneurs struggle with broad mental health issues at various points in their lives.
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Jonny Lee Miller
British Actor
It's very strange to become a character: the lines get blurred, and you start to sort of, I don't know, take it home too much?
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Lia Ices
American Musician
I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.
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Jane Siberry
Canadian Musician
I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.
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Heather Watson
British Athlete
Wins and losses just blur into one as you move around the world playing matches.
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Sean Murray
American Actor
Over time, the lines blur sometimes. A little of you comes into the character.
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Taylor Swift
American Singer
Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
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Alexandra Petri
American Journalist
There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together.
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Bryan Adams
Canadian Musician
I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
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Carrie Ann Inaba
American Dancer
My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything is a blur. I put my contacts in when I'm ready to deal with the world.
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Brad Feld
American Businessman
While the line between stress, deep anxiety, and depression often blurs, most entrepreneurs struggle with broad mental health issues at various points in their lives.
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Jonny Lee Miller
British Actor
It's very strange to become a character: the lines get blurred, and you start to sort of, I don't know, take it home too much?
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Lia Ices
American Musician
I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.
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Jane Siberry
Canadian Musician
I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.
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Heather Watson
British Athlete
Wins and losses just blur into one as you move around the world playing matches.
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Sean Murray
American Actor
Over time, the lines blur sometimes. A little of you comes into the character.
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