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Definition: Burr |
BurrNoun1. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles. 2. Rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting. 3. United States politician who served as Vice President under Jefferson; he mortally wounded his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel and fled south (1756-1836). 4. Rotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece. 5. Small bit used in dentistry or surgery. Verb1. Remove the burrs from. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "burr" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
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Biology & Biotechnology | A)a woody excrescence on a bole, branch, buttress, or rhizome, having a highly contorted grain; b)the characteristically contorted figure obtained therefrom, sometimes including numerous small knot-like growths("eyes"). Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of burrs, denotes that you will struggle to free self from some unpleasant burden, and will seek a change of surroundings. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | Extractors. . . are units designed to remove hulls or burrs (the dry boll parts) from the seed cotton. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Rough or hard stone, such as a compact siliceous sandstone, especially hard to drill. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Common name of various plants(Composite, Ombrelliferous or Borraginaceous, amongst which the burr)whose seeds, flowers, leaves and fruits cling to ones clothes and especially to sheeps'fleeces. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Hardened steel rolls or rings with needles or furrows which when pressed against a rotating grindstone expose new grits on the surface of the stone. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The waste portions found in preparing raw silk for market. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A rough edge, especially of a drilled hole or the like; a fin is a ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mould. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Metallurgy | A thin web of metal which is punched out to produce a hole through the forging. Source: European Union. (references) |
| That portion of a metal sheet which projects above a surface after a blanking or shearing operation. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A rough ridge or edge left on metal or other substance after cutting, punching, etc. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. A term used in England for a rough or hard stone, such as a compact siliceous sandstone esp. hard to drill. Also spelled bur b. A knob, boss, nodule, or other hard mass of siliceous rock in a softer rock; a hard lump of ore in a softer vein. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | BURR. A hanger on, or dependant; an allusion to the field burrs, which are not easily got rid of. Also the Northumbrian pronunciation: the people of that country, but chiefly about Newcastle and Morpeth, are said to have a burr in their throats, particula. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Burr is a village located in Otoe County, Nebraska. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 66.Geography
Burr is located at 40°32'13" North, 96°18'2" West (40.536891, -96.300651)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²). 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 66 people, 36 households, and 16 families residing in the village. The population density is 318.5/km² (784.7/mi²). There are 40 housing units at an average density of 193.1/km² (475.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 100.00% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 36 households out of which 11.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.4% are married couples living together, 2.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 52.8% are non-families. 47.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 25.0% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 1.83 and the average family size is 2.65. In the village the population is spread out with 16.7% under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 21.2% from 25 to 44, 31.8% from 45 to 64, and 22.7% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 46 years. For every 100 females there are 100.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 83.3 males. The median income for a household in the village is $35,000, and the median income for a family is $38,125. Males have a median income of $31,786 versus $23,750 for females. The per capita income for the village is $20,113. 5.3% of the population and 0.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 11.1% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Burr, Nebraska."
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Burr: A Novel is a 1973 novel by Gore Vidal that challenges the traditional iconography of American history to present an alternative view of the life of Aaron Burr, presenting him as a hero, while all the other key historical figures of the time, such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson are depicted as self-centered individuals, who did not place the good of the country first. The main villain is Alexander Hamilton, with whom Burr fought his famous duel.Like many of Vidal's other historical novels, such as Julian or Creation, the book is based on an imaginary memoir. In fact, Vidal did meticulous research of hundreds of documents to come up with his alternative reading of history.
The story is told from the point of view of a fictional illegitimate son of Burr's by the name of Charles Schuyler.
Burr is the first of a series of novels by Vidal in which he follows one family through the history of the United States. The second book in the series, 1876, tells of Schuyler returning to the United States in the year 1876, after having spent forty years in Europe.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Burr: A Novel."
Synonym: BurrSynonym: bur (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sharpness | Beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle; comb; awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle. |
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Crosswords: Burr |
| English words defined with "burr": Alexander Hamilton ♦ Burring, burrlike ♦ Hamilton ♦ Wharling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "burr": ASSEMBLER, TUBING ♦ BENCH HAND, bender, hand, BURRING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ Croakumshire ♦ erythredema polyneuropathy ♦ feed miller ♦ GRINDER OPERATOR, gristmiller, ground-wood supervisor ♦ LATHE HAND ♦ mill operator ♦ RIVETER, HAND, roller-mill operator ♦ SLIDING-JOINT MAKER, supervisor, groundwood mill ♦ TAPPER II, TUBE BENDER, HAND I, tube bender-assembler ♦ WOOD GRINDER, HEAD. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Burr" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (brrh, frizz). |
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 | Underway during the North Atlantic Fleet review in 1905. Photographed by the Burr McIntosh Studio. Credit: NAVY. |  | Mrs. George H. Burr, residence on Chicken Valley Rd., Locust Valley, Long Island. Garage. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | We're giving you the burr, sap, chaffed the chipmunks and snapped the squirrels. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Maude Fealy / from copyright p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Burr McIntosh, N.Y.. |
 | Portrait of Mary Burr, in Paint Your Wagon. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Burr Knot in Tree" by Matthew Maaskant Commentary: "A burr knot in a tree trunk. Visit http://www.qr5.com ." |
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Aaron Burr | The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. |
| Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done. | |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | I informed Congress at their last session of the enterprises against the public peace which were believed to be in preparation by Aaron Burr and his associates, of the measures taken to defeat them and to bring the offenders to justice. |
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| "Burr" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.98% of the time. "Burr" is used about 133 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) | 93.98% | 125 | 28,650 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.26% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.75% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 133 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "burr" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Burr | Last name | 7,000 | 1,824 |
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1. Burr, NE (village, FIPS 7205) |
Expressions using "burr": Aaron Burr ♦ burr cylinder ♦ burr drill ♦ burr Hill ♦ burr marigold ♦ Burr millstone ♦ burr Oak ♦ burr Ridge ♦ burr roller ♦ Newcastle burr ♦ Northumberland burr ♦ stick to smb. like a burr ♦ tweedside burr. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "burr": burr-brown, burr-drill, burr-granite, burr-headed. | |
Ending with "burr": de-burr, g-burr. | |
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| 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. |
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aaron burr | 109 | solis crema burr | 13 |
burr brown | 109 | burr puzzle | 13 |
burr coffee grinder | 74 | bill burr | 12 |
raymond burr | 71 | sandy burr country club | 12 |
burr | 68 | carbide burr | 10 |
burr oak | 63 | burr gay raymond | 10 |
burr ridge | 52 | burr duel hamilton | 10 |
burr grinder | 36 | burr burton | 10 |
burr oak park state | 27 | burr burton academy | 9 |
burr ridge illinois | 27 | burr hamilton | 9 |
burr forman | 22 | burr foreman | 9 |
burr oak tree | 19 | burr white | 9 |
burr king | 18 | david burr | 9 |
burr sandy | 17 | traci burr | 9 |
richard burr | 17 | burr wolff | 8 |
john burr | 17 | burr cell | 7 |
burr oak michigan | 14 | amerisuites burr ridge | 7 |
solis burr grinder | 14 | best burr coffee grinder | 7 |
burr clive | 13 | burr tracy | 7 |
burr realty white | 13 | albert burr john | 7 |
burr gary | 7 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "burr"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shqiptoj r-në si rr, gërvin (creak, crunch, rasp, scratch, squeak), gërvimë (creak, crunch, rasp, scratch, squeak). (various references) | |
Arabic | نبتة شائكة, لفظة حلقية, لدغ (bite, biting, lisp, nettle, pinch, sting, stinging, strike), غلاف ثمرة خشن, عقدة في شجرة, شخص يعلق كثمرة شائكة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чеп (bung, fauces, knag, knar, knot, knur, knurl, nodule, Nodus, nub, peg, plug, spigot, spile, tap, toggle), говоря гърлено, вид варовик, бръмчене (boom, buzz, hum, humming, ping, purr, whir, whirr, zoom), бръмча (boom, buzz, drone, drum, ha, hum, ping, purr, ring, sing, whir, whirr), брус (hone, rubber, sharpener, whet, whetstone), инструмент за рязане, инструмент за пробиване, изпъкналост (bulge, camber, convexity, jut, knap, knob, lobe, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, salience, swelling, umbo), издатина (horn, hump, jut, ledge, process, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, salient, set off, shelf, swell, tuber). (various references) | |
Chinese | 毛刺. (various references) | |
Czech | ráèkovat, nářeèní výslovnost, huèení (hoot, hum, whir, whirr). (various references) | |
Danish | boregrat, burre (great burdock), bor (bore), grundfjeld (basal complex, basement, basement complex, basement rock, bedrock, bed-rock, bur, country rock, enclosing rock, fundamental complex, ledge, main bottom, native rock, partition rock, wall rock), finne (fin, Finn), flydeaffald (flash, overflow, spew), fræser (bur, drill, milling cutter, plough drill, trepan, trephine), fraeser (bur, dental drill, drill, trepan, trephine), grat (flash, overflow, paring, shaving, spew, trimming), stoebefinne (flash, overflow, spew), indvendig finne (piercing, wad), maserknude (burl, twig burr), masurknude (burl, twig burr), moderbjergart (bur, country rock, enclosing rock, native rock, partition rock, wall rock), riveuld, skærperulle, snitgrat, grad (degree, grade). (various references) | |
Dutch | braam (blackberry, blackberry bush, bramble), binnenbraam (piercing, wad), wortelknol (burl, corm, root tuber, tuber), wortelhout (burl, gnarl), tussenschot (wall), tandboor (bur, dental drill, drill, trepan, trephine), siliciumsteen (bur, country rock, enclosing rock, native rock, partition rock, wall rock), knipbraam, klit, klis (burdock), het overtollige (paring, shaving, trimming), hard gesteente (bur, country rock, enclosing rock, native rock, partition rock, wall rock), gietnaad (flash, joint, overflow, spew, splice), afvijlsel (paring, shaving, trimming), afsnijdsel (meat scraps, meat trimmings, paring, shaving, trimming). (various references) | |
Esperanto | lapo. (various references) | |
Farsi | پوست زبروخاردارمیوه , پره یادندانه دارکردن , گره (Ganglion, Knob, Knot, Loop, Lump, Parcel, Snag, Snarl, Tie), غلیظتلفظکردن , حرف rرااداء کردن , خار (Barb, Bur, Goad, Jag, Prick, Teazle, Thorn), بامته سوراخ کردن (Trepanation), برامدگی (Bulge, Bump, Ganglion, Knob, Ledge, Mound, Nook, Nub, Outgrwth, Overhang, Projection, Ridge, Stigma, Tumor). (various references) | |
Finnish | ylivuotoaines, valupurse, teroitusrulla, takiainen (bur, burdock), sivukivi (attle, bur, burrow, country rock, country rocks, enclosing rock, gangue, native rock, partition rock, rocky matrix, rubbish, surrounding rocks, wall rock), sisäpuolinen purse (piercing, wad), porauspurse, porausjäyste, pahka (gall, gnarl, lump, node, protuberance), kova kivilaji (bur, country rock, enclosing rock, native rock, partition rock, wall rock), jäyste, emäkallio (bur, country rock, enclosing rock, native rock, partition rock, wall rock). (various references) | |
French | bardane (burdock). (various references) | |
German | grat (border, brim, brink, edge, edging, fin, fringe, hip, razor edge, ridge, rim, thorn), klette (barnacle, bind, bur, burdock, limpet, nuisance). (various references) | |
Greek | λαρυγγισμόσ (trill, yodel, yodle), τροχίσκος (caster, castor, oral contraceptive, pellet, pill), τρυπάνι (auger, bit, brace and bit, drill, gimlet), αποξάκριδο (paring, shaving, trimming), απόληξη διατμήσεως, απόξεσμα (paring, shaving, trimming), οδοντιατρική φρέζα (bur, dental drill, drill, trepan, trephine), λούπος (burl), κολιτσίδα, παρασάρκωμα δένδρου (burl), περιβάλλον πέτρωμα (bur, country rock, enclosing rock, native rock, partition rock, wall rock), γρέζι (chip, fin, flash, flush, overflush, overpress, swarf), ρίνισμα (chip, filling), έντονη προφορά, κολλητσίδα (sticker), αγριάδα (bur, ferocity, wildness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | הגיה גרונית. (various references) | |
Hungarian | berregés (buzz, droning), bogáncs (bur, thistle), bojtorján (bur, burdock), egyenetlen él, érdes él, fogfúró (bur), fúr (bore, drill, to bad-mouth, to bore, to bur, to burr, to drill, to hole), fagydaganat (bur, chilblain, cracked heel, mule), fülnyílás (bur), holdudvar (bur, halo, paraselene), fényudvar (aureole, bur, corona, halation, halo, irradiation), köszörűnek való kő (bur), diófa-erezet (bur), öntvényvarrat, fülkagyló (auricle, bur, Concha, earflap, earlap, external ear, outer ear), négyélű simítókés (burr cutter), zörej (sputter, thrill), tüske (barb, beard, bristle, bur, dolly, prick, pricker, prickle, spike, spine, thorn), szálkás él, sorja (barb, fin), ropogtatott r hang, forgács (bur, chippings, Flinders, paring, raspings, shavings, shiver, shivers, sliver, Spall, trimmings), nehezen lerázható személy (bur), zörgés (clack, clatter, clattering, rattle, rustle, rustling), marófúró (bur, cherry, countersink, milling cutter), malomkőnek való kő (bur), lyukvágó (bur, hollow punch), lyuktágító (bur, reamer), koldustetű (bur), kaparókés (burr cutter, drawing-knife, palette knife, scraper knife), rózsa agancs tövén (bur). (various references) | |
Indonesian | suara (voice, vote), akan (ABOUT TO, shall, will, would). (various references) | |
Italian | fresa (cutter). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 毬栗 (chestnut in its burr). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いがぐり (chestnut in its burr). (various references) | |
Korean | 숫돌. (various references) | |
Manx | broilley (blunt, hack, hammer down, turn, turn as edge of tool, turn over), broillaghey (hack, rivet, turn, turn as edge of tool, turn over), broill (rivet). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urrbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rebarba (barb, fash), pedra de amolar (grindstone, slip, stone, whetstone), cardo (thistle). (various references) | |
Romanian | vibra puternic consoanã, sfredel (auger, borer, drill, gimlet, wimble), pronunţare velarã a lui "r", piatrã de ascuţit (rub stone), nimb (aura, halo), margine crestatã, huruit (clatter, rattle, rattling, rumble, whir), graseiere, graseia (roll one's rs), ghimpe (bur, prick, prickle, thorn). (various references) | |
Russian | шип (bur, calk, cleat, gudgeon, male pin, prick, prickle, rough, spine, tenon, thorn, tongue), грат, заусенец, заусеница (agnail, hangnail). (various references) | |
Scottish | cliadan (a burr), clàdan (a burr), ceòsan (burr or light down of feathers). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | podrigivanje (belch). (various references) | |
Spanish | rebaba (bur). (various references) | |
Swedish | grad (degree, echelon, even, extent, grade, order, pitch, rank, scale, step, straight). (various references) | |
Turkish | vırlama, pürüz ve çapakları gidermek, pürüz (roughness, rub, shagginess), küçük daire testeresi, dikenli tohum kabuğu (bur), anlaşılmayan bir telaffuzla konuşmak, çapak (beard, bream, crust round the eyes, gum). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | точильний камень, гаркавість, гаркавити, задирка (barb, bur, hangnail), жорновий камінь, бор (bore, boron). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đá làm cối xay. (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lappa. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "burr": burred, burrer, burrers, burrier, burriest, burring, burrito, burritos, burro, burros, burrow, burrowed, burrower, burrowers, burrowing, burrows, burrs, burrstone, burrstones, burry. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "burr": sandburr. (additional references) | |
Words containing "burr": kookaburra, kookaburras, sandburrs. (additional references) | |
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"Burr" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: berr, berra, beur, bhr, Birir, birra, birrt, birru, blurr, bmr, bor, borr, borra, borry, Bourri, Bourry, bpr, brr, brrr, bru, Bruar, bruf, brur, buhr, Buir, Bujra, bure, burf, Burj, burm, buror, burra, burre, burri, burrl, butr, Buur, byrr, durr, gurr, turrr, urr. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "burr" (pronounced ber") |
| 2 | b er" | birr, bur. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-r-r-u" | |
-1 letter: brr, bur, rub, urb. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: burro, burrs, burry. | |
+2 letters: arbour, blurry, burger, burier, burker, burler, burner, burred, burrer, burros, burrow, bursar, curber, durbar, rebury, rubber, rubier, rubric, rurban. | |
+3 letters: abjurer, arbours, blurred, blurter, bordure, bourree, bravura, bravure, bruiser, bruiter, brusher, brusker, burbler, burgers, burgher, burglar, buriers, burkers, burlers, burlier, burners, burrers, burrier, burring, burrito, burrows, bursars, bursary, bursera, burster, crumber, curbers, drubber, durbars, grubber, harbour, perturb, rebuker, rhubarb, rubbers, rubbery, rubrics, rumbler, turbary, urbaner. | |
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