Bur

Definition: Bur

Bur

Noun

1. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.

2. Small bit used in dentistry or surgery.

Verb

1. Remove the burrs from.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bur" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Geography

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Synonym: Bur

Coherence

Tenacity, toughness; stickiness; inseparability, inseparableness; bur, remora.

Cling like ivy, cling like a bur; adhere like a remora, adhere like Dejanira's shirt.

Engraving

Noun: engraving, chalcography; line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving; dry point, bur; etching, aquatinta; chiseling; plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving; xylography, lignography, glyptography, cerography, lithography, chromolithography, photolithography, zincography, glyphography, xylograph, lignograph, glyptograph, cerograph, lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph, glyphograph, holograph.

Roughness

Wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down; byssus, moss, bur; fluff.

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.

Crosswords: Bur

Danish (cage), Indonesian (sound of splashing), Norwegian (cage, hutch), Romanian (boer), Swedish (cage, clink, coop, crate, goal, hutch, jug, stir).

Planeta Bur (1962)

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Books

• A Country So Full of Game: The Story of Wildlife in Iowa (A Bur Oak Original) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Let Me Entertain You/Carol Bur (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Philippine Islands--Manila--Corn and coconut at the Bur. of Agr. exhibit, inner court, Ayuntamiento. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Miss Helen Gusmerotti, twenty-nine, and Miss Mary Mignogna, employed as car repairmen's helpers at the steel car shop in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, earning seventy-two cents per hour. Miss Gusmerotti and Miss Mignogna are bur. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

Various properties, in different stages of building, are Holiday Inn Bur Dubai, Grand Hyatt, Sheraton Pyramid, Four Seasons Hotel and Park Hyatt. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "bur": buffalo bur ♦ bur fish ♦ bur grass ♦ bur marigold ♦ Bur oak ♦ Bur reed ♦ cling to smb. like a bur ♦ stick to smb. like a bur ♦ trifid bur marigold. Additional references.

Beginning with "bur": bur-reed family.

Albanian

rrodhe (leech), njeri i ngjitur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏حافة خشنة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

лепка (barnacle, leech, limpet), бодлив (barbed, briery, prickly, scratchy, scrubby, spiny, thistly). (various references)

Chinese 

局 (Bureau, Bureaus, Bureaux, inning, innings). (various references)

Czech

lopuch (burdock). (various references)

Danish

bor (bore), moderbjergart (burr, country rock, enclosing rock, native rock, partition rock, wall rock), grundfjeld (basal complex, basement, basement complex, basement rock, bedrock, bed-rock, burr, country rock, enclosing rock, fundamental complex, ledge, main bottom, native rock, partition rock, wall rock), fraeser (burr, dental drill, drill, trepan, trephine), fræser (burr, drill, milling cutter, plough drill, trepan, trephine). (various references)

Dutch

tandboor (burr, dental drill, drill, trepan, trephine), siliciumsteen (burr, country rock, enclosing rock, native rock, partition rock, wall rock), hard gesteente (burr, country rock, enclosing rock, native rock, partition rock, wall rock). (various references)

Farsi 

تیغ (Prick, Thorn), خار (Barb, Burr, Goad, Jag, Prick, Teazle, Thorn). (various references)

Finnish

takiainen (burdock), sivukivi (attle, burr, burrow, country rock, country rocks, enclosing rock, gangue, native rock, partition rock, rocky matrix, rubbish, surrounding rocks, wall rock), kova kivilaji (burr, country rock, enclosing rock, native rock, partition rock, wall rock), emäkallio (burr, country rock, enclosing rock, native rock, partition rock, wall rock). (various references)

French

vrille (burr), roche encaissante (burr), roche dure (burr), fraise (burr). (various references)

German

klette (barnacle, bind, burdock, burr, limpet, nuisance). (various references)

Greek 

κολλιτσίδα (burdock). (various references)

Hungarian

tüske (barb, beard, bristle, burr, dolly, prick, pricker, prickle, spike, spine, thorn). (various references)

Indonesian

duri (barb, fish bone, prickle, spine, thorn). (various references)

Italian

roccia dura (burr, country rock, enclosing rock, native rock, partition rock, wall rock), riccio (curl, curlicue, curly, frizz, hedgehog), fresa (burr, cutter). (various references)

Korean 

국 (Bureau, Bureaus, Bureaux). (various references)

Manx

leaddan (fuller, teasel, teazle). (various references)

Pig Latin

urbay.(various references)

Portuguese

buril (chisel, puncheon), broca dental (burr, dental drill, drill, trepan, trephine), trépano (trepan), ouriço, descarrapichar, carrapicho. (various references)

Romanian

ghimpe (burr, prick, prickle, thorn). (various references)

Russian 

репейник (agrimony), репей, шип (burr, calk, cleat, gudgeon, male pin, prick, prickle, rough, spine, tenon, thorn, tongue). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

čičak (burdock). (various references)

Spanish

zumbido (burr, buzz, buzzing, drone, hum, ringing, singing, tingle, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz), trépano (trepan), torno (burr, lathe, wheel, windlass), taladro dental (dental drill), rebaba (burr), pronunciación gutural de la r (burr), persona pegajosa (burr), nudo compuesto (kink, knurl, snag), halo luminoso (burr), fresa dental (burr, dental drill, drill, trepan, trephine), cubierta espinosa (burr), acento rústico (burr). (various references)

Swedish

sidoberg (burr, country rock, country rocks, enclosing rock, native rock, partition rock, surrounding rocks, wall rock), kardborre (burdock, burr). (various references)

Turkish

dikenli tohum kabuğu (burr). (various references)

Ukrainian

шип (barb, buzz, calk, nib, prick, prickle, tenon), корнішон (gherkin), колючка (barb, prick, prickle, sticker, stickleback, thorn, tiddler), задирка (barb, burr, hangnail), лопух (burdock). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quả có gai, cây có cụm hoa có lông dính người bám dai như đỉa. (various references)

Arctium lappa, lappa, Lappa major. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bur": bura, buran, burans, buras, burble, burbled, burbler, burblers, burbles, burblier, burbliest, burbling, burbly, burbot, burbots, burbs, burd, burden, burdened, burdener, burdeners, burdening, burdens, burdensome, burdie, burdies, burdock, burdocks, burds, bureau, bureaucracies, bureaucracy, bureaucrat, bureaucratese, bureaucrateses, bureaucratic, bureaucratically, bureaucratise, bureaucratised, bureaucratises, bureaucratising, bureaucratism, bureaucratisms, bureaucratization, bureaucratizations, bureaucratize, bureaucratized, bureaucratizes, bureaucratizing, bureaucrats, bureaus. (additional references)

Words ending with "bur": cocklebur, sambur, sandbur, tambur. (additional references)

Words containing "bur": afterburner, afterburners, airburst, airbursts, alburnum, alburnums, antibureaucratic, antiburglar, antiburglary, auburn, auburns, carburet, carbureted, carbureting, carburetion, carburetions, carburetor, carburetors, carburets, carburetted, carburetter, carburetters, carburetting, carburettor, carburettors, carburise, carburised, carburises, carburising, carburization, carburizations, carburize, carburized, carburizes, carburizing, cheeseburger, cheeseburgers, cloudburst, cloudbursts, cockleburs, decarburization, decarburizations, decarburize, decarburized, decarburizes, decarburizing, disburden, disburdened, disburdening, disburdenment, disburdenments. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abur, Bauru, bcr, behr, ber, berq, berr, beur, bhr, Bhuird, bifr, bir, birv, bmr, bohr, bomr, borh, borq, borr, borx, bpr, Bpu, brj, brr, brrr, bru, bruf, brur, Brux, bu, buc, bue, buf, buh, buhr, Buir, buj, Bujra, bunr, burb, Burd, bure, burf, Burh, buri, Burj, burk, burm, buro, Buru, burz, butr, Buur, Buv, buw, Bvu, byr, byrr, iur, ubf, urr. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rub, urb.

+1 letter: blur, brut, buhr, bura, burd, burg, burl, burn, burp, burr, burs, bury, curb, drub, grub, rube, rubs, ruby, urbs.

+2 letters: bluer, blurb, blurs, blurt, bourg, bourn, brugh, bruin, bruit, brume, brunt, brush, brusk, brute, buhrs, buran, buras, burbs, burds, buret, burgh, burgs, burin, burke, burls, burly, burns, burnt, burps, burro, burrs, burry, bursa, burse, burst, buyer, crumb, cuber, curbs, drubs, exurb, grubs, krubi, rebus, rebut, rebuy, redub, rhumb, rubes, ruble, rubus, rugby, rumba, scrub, shrub, slurb, suber, tuber, turbo, umber, umbra, unbar, urban, urbia.