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Definition: PUR |
PURIntransitive verb1. To utter a low, murmuring, continued sound, as a cat does when pleased. Noun1. The low, murmuring sound made by a cat to express contentment or pleasure. Transitive verb1. To signify or express by purring. |
"PUR" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "Purim", "lot". |
Date "PUR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | The first six terms are in use in India for designating the "rope-and-bucket lift"; this device is known in Arabicspeaking countries as "daly" or "delu" Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PUR | English | Program Utility Routine | N/A |
PUR | French | Polyuréthanne | Chemical Industry, Meteorology & Standards |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nobility | Noun: nobility, rank, condition, distinction, optimacy, blood, pur sang, birth, high descent, order; quality, gentility; blue blood of Castile; ancien regime. |
Property | Limitation, term, lease, settlement, strict settlement, particular estate; estate for life, estate for years, estate pur autre vie; remainder, reversion, expectancy, possibility. |
Simpleness | Unmixed, unmingled, unblended, uncombined, uncompounded; elementary, undecomposed; unadulterated, unsophisticated, unalloyed, untinged, unfortified, pur et simple; incomplex. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PUR |
| English words defined with "PUR": Purred, Purring. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PUR": Pur, Purim ♦ Science Persecuted. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PUR" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (absolute, chaste, clean, clear, mere, neat, outright, plain, pure, raw, refined, sheer, simple, sole, solitary, stainless, stark, straightforward, sweet, unadulterated, unalloyed, unmixed), German (neat, pure, sheer, straight), Romanian (absolute, chaste, clean, clear, fine, genuine, immaculate, mere, modest, pure, sheer, simple, stainless, unmixed, virginal, white), Swedish (clean, pure, sheer), Welsh (fairly, pure, rather, sincere, very). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | 4500 kilos d'or pur (1972) Le boy au coeur pur Sikitu (1951) Pur sang (1931) Cinq minutes de cinéma pur (1926) Un pur moment de rock'n roll (1999) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "PUR" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 53.33% of the time. "PUR" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Unclassified Items | 53.33% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "PUR": pur et simple. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "PUR": pur-pur, pur-pyr. | |
Ending with "PUR": pur-pur, pyr-pur. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "PUR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Turkish | tatlı bir sesle söylemek (purr), mırlamak (purr), mırlama (purr), mırıldanmak (coo, croon, fret and fume, grizzle, grumble, hum, mump, murmur, mutter, purr), mırıldamak (burble, grumble, mumble, mutter, purr), mır mır etmek (purr), mır mır etme (purr), kedi mırıldaması, hırıltı yapmak (purr, rattle, snarl). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không lai (clean-bred, pur sang, purebred). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 27 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Apodhsei tiV pur en kolpw ta de imatia ou katakausei |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Numquid abscondere potest homo ignem in sinu suo ut vestimenta illius non ardeant |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Whether mai a man hide fir in his bosum, that his clothis brenne not; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 27 |
| Cebuano | Makadala ba ang usa ka tawo ug kalayo sa iyang sabakan, Ug ang iyang mga sapot dili ba masunog? |
| Chinese | 人 若 懷 裡 搋 火 、 衣 服 豈 能 不 ' 呢 。 |
| Croatian | Može li tko nositi oganj u njedrima a da mu se odjeæa ne upali? |
| Danish | Kan nogen bære Ild i sin Brystfold, uden at Klæderne brænder? |
| Dutch | Zal iemand vuur in zijn boezem nemen, dat zijn klederen niet verbrand worden? |
| Finnish | Voiko kukaan kuljettaa tulta helmassaan, puvun häneltä palamatta? |
| French | Quelqu`un mettra-t-il du feu dans son sein, Sans que ses vêtements s`enflamment? |
| German | Kann auch jemand ein Feuer im Busen behalten, daß seine Kleider nicht brennen? |
| Haitian Creole | Ou pa ka sere dife anndan rad sou ou pou rad la pa boule. |
| Hungarian | Vehet-é valaki tüzet az õ kebelébe, hogy ruhái meg ne égnének? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Dapatkah orang memangku api tanpa terbakar bajunya? |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bolehkah orang mengambil api dalam kandungannya, maka tiada hangus kain bajunya? |
| Maori | E taea ranei e te tangata te tango i te ahi ki roto ki tona uma, a e kore ona kakahu e wera? |
| Norwegian | Kan nogen hente ild i sitt fang uten hans klær brennes op? |
| Portuguese | Pode alguém tomar fogo no seu seio, sem que os seus vestidos se queimem? |
| Rumanian | Poate cineva sq ia foc kn skn, fqrq sq i se aprindq hainele? |
| Russian | нПЦЕФ МЙ ЛФП ЧЪСФШ УЕ'Е ПЗПОШ Ч БЪХИХ, ЮФП'Щ ОЕ ТПЗПТЕМП МБФШЕ ЕЗП? |
| Spanish | ¿Tomará el hombre fuego en su seno sin que se quemen sus vestidos? |
| Swedish | Kan väl någon hämta eld i sitt mantelveck utan att hans kläder bliva förbrända? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PUR": purana, puranas, puranic, purblind, purblindly, purblindness, purblindnesses, purchasable, purchase, purchased, purchaser, purchasers, purchases, purchasing, purda, purdah, purdahs, purdas, pure, pureblood, purebloods, purebred, purebreds, puree, pureed, pureeing, purees, purely, pureness, purenesses, purer, purest, purfle, purfled, purfles, purfling, purflings, purgation, purgations, purgative, purgatives, purgatorial, purgatories, purgatory, purge, purged, purger, purgers, purges, purging, purgings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "PUR": cockspur, hotspur, jodhpur, larkspur, longspur, sandspur, spur. (additional references) | |
Words containing "PUR": allopurinol, allopurinols, appurtenance, appurtenances, appurtenant, appurtenants, cockspurs, compurgation, compurgations, compurgator, compurgators, copurified, copurifies, copurify, copurifying, cutpurse, cutpurses, depurate, depurated, depurates, depurating, empurple, empurpled, empurples, empurpling, expurgate, expurgated, expurgates, expurgating, expurgation, expurgations, expurgator, expurgatorial, expurgators, expurgatory, guipure, guipures, hotspurs, hyperpure, impure, impurely, impureness, impurenesses, impurities, impurity, jodhpurs, larkspurs, longspurs, mercaptopurine, mercaptopurines, multipurpose. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PUR" (pronounced per") |
| 2 | p er" | per, purr, spur. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: up. | |
| Words containing the letters "p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: burp, pour, prau, pure, puri, purl, purr, purs, roup, rump, spur. | |
+2 letters: burps, croup, crump, drupe, duper, erupt, frump, group, grump, pareu, perdu, pours, prahu, praus, proud, prude, prune, pruta, puler, purda, puree, purer, purge, purin, puris, purls, purrs, purse, pursy, roups, roupy, rumps, rupee, sirup, slurp, sprue, sprug, spurn, spurs, spurt, super, supra, syrup, trump, turps, unrip, updry, upper, usurp. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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