BLURRING

Definition: BLURRING

BLURRING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Blur

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "BLURRING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)

Domain	Definition
Medicine	The optical density of an unexposed radiographic film equal to the sum of the optical density of the film base and the density produced in the sensitive layers(s)by processing. Source: European Union. (references)
Post & Telecom	In television, the reduction of the apparent sharpness of definition of objects in the reproduced scene. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: BLURRING

Specialty definitions using "BLURRING": defocus effect, diagonal resolution, Dry Eye Syndrome ♦ hyperventilation syndrome ♦ INSPECTOR, CLIP-ON SUNGLASSES ♦ ocular crisis. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You're happy out there, are you? Eh? Wandering? One day blurring into another (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior; writing credit: Terry Hayes; George Miller)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Blurring Architecture (reference) Blurring the Edges: Integrated Curriculum Through Writing and Children's Literature (reference) Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life (reference) Manet, Flaubert, and the Emergence of Modernism : Blurring Genre Boundaries (reference) Meredith Brooks Blurring the Edges (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Blurring the Edges (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Some patients describe this effect as a blurring. (references)
		The fluid makes the macula swell, blurring vision. (references)
		As the disease progresses, most patients will begin to develop a blurring of vision and problems controlling eye movement. (references)
Business		Services related to the Internet, such as web hosting, Internet portals, application service provision, are also on the rise. The catchword is convergence – convergence of telecommunications, IT, and media industries, blurring the lines between telecom carriers, IT companies, Internet service providers, and content providers. (references)
Economic History	New Zealand	With the growth of the New Zealand economy, there has appeared some blurring of the traditional pattern of the channels of distribution. (references)
	Australia	Many of these companies are moving to the ASP model and are providing customers with a range of client-based applications on-demand, effectively blurring the area between application providers and ISPs. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"BLURRING" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 52.85% of the time. "BLURRING" is used about 123 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
Noun (singular)	52.85%	65	41,645
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	43.9%	54	46,184
Adjective (general or positive)	2.44%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	0.81%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	123	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "BLURRING": boundary-blurring, eye-blurring.
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 "BLURRING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏لطخة (blot, blotch, cloud, macula, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, speckle, splash, spot, sully), ‏ضبابية (cloudiness, fogginess, haziness, mistiness, obscurity, vagueness), ‏شىء غير واضح. (various references)

Chinese		弄脏 (Blotted, Blotting, blurred, fouled, Fouling, smudged, Smudging, soiled, soiling, stained, staining). (various references)

Danish		udviskning (extinction), tåge (fog, mist), sloer (feather, fog, fogging, haze, light diffusion, veil), sløring (bloom, blushing, concealment), slør (backlash, bloom, blooming, blushing, fog, haze, slur). (various references)

Dutch		wazigheid, onscherpte. (various references)

Finnish		huntu (veil), epäterävyys. (various references)

French		flou (blurred). (various references)

German		Verwischung. (various references)

Greek		ασάφεια περιγράμματος, ομίχλη (fog, haze, mist, mizzle). (various references)

Hebrew		טשטוש (besmearing, defacing, fogginess, smudging, vagueness). (various references)

Hungarian		elhomályosítás (adumbration, darkening, obfuscation). (various references)

Indonesian		pengaburan (blurring of). (various references)

Italian		velo (cover, film, gauze, shroud, veil, velum), velatura (overglaze), sfocamento, opacità (opacity, opaqueness), offuscamento. (various references)

Korean		희미해짐. (various references)

Pig Latin		urringblay.(various references)

Portuguese		névoa (blur, cloud, damp, mirk, mist, mistiness, murk, rack, steam, vapor, vapour). (various references)

Spanish		borrón (blob, blot, blur, slur, splodge, splotch, stain), velado (breathy, foggy, thick, veiled), pérdida aparente de definición. (various references)

Swedish		slöja (nun's veiling, shroud, veil, wimple), oskärpa. (various references)

Turkish		bulaştırma (contamination, implication, infection, transmission). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "BLURRING": blurringly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"BLURRING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blorenge, bloring, bluerings, blurbing, blurding, blurrings. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "BLURRING" (pronounced bler"ing)
4	-l er" i ng	slurring.
3	-er" i ng	concurring, conferring, deferring, demurring, deterring, incurring, inferring, nonrecurring, occurring, preferring, purring, recurring, referring, spurring, stirring, transferring, whirring.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-g-i-l-n-r-r-u"
	-1 letter: burling, burring.
	-2 letters: bluing, lubing, luring, ruling.
	-3 letters: bring, bruin, burin, lungi, ruing, unrig.
	-4 letters: birl, birr, blin, blur, brig, brin, bung, burg, burl, burn, burr, girl, girn, glib, grin, grub, iglu, ling, lung, nurl, ring, ruin, rung.
	-5 letters: big, bin, brr, bug, bun, bur, gib, gin, gnu, gul, gun, lib, lin, lug, nib, nil.
	Words containing the letters "b-g-i-l-n-r-r-u"
	+2 letters: blurringly.
	+3 letters: antiburglar.
	+4 letters: antiburglary, burglarizing.
	+5 letters: gubernatorial, relubricating.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
blurring	4
blurring vision	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Gray Lots 1" by Kelly Abbott Commentary: "Little blurring grayness with a building a tree and some mild mannerisms."	"Cleared for landing 2" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "Still working on speed shots. Can't get past the blurring on the wings <sigh>."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

BLURRING

Definition: BLURRING

BLURRING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

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