blur

Definition of blur in English English dictionary: To become indistinct; A smear, smudge or blot; To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim; Something that appears hazy or indistinct; To smear, stain or smudge; {n} a blot, spot, stain, mistake, imperfection; {v} to blot, spot, stain, efface, hurt; A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur; To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken; become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred"; To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation; make a smudge on; soil by smudging; A photographic effect, either intentional or unintentional, that produces an picture with a loss of image sharpness; to become less clear and sharp; make dim or indistinct; "The drug blurs my vision"; A blur is a shape or area which you cannot see clearly because it has no distinct outline or because it is moving very fast. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a blur of movement on the other side of the glass Her face is a blur; Unsharpness of image due to movement of camera or subject at the moment of exposure; The softening of image detail, usually accomplished through software averaging of pixel values to soften edges; become glassy; lose clear vision; "Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep"; make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"; Command used to smooth images by lightening pixels that are in sharp contrast to neighboring pixels; an effect applied to images that dulls the focus of the image; opposite of "sharpen"; a hazy or indistinct representation; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz" become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred" make dim or indistinct; "The drug blurs my vision" to make less distinct or clear; "The haze blurs the hills; If something blurs an idea or a distinction between things, that idea or distinction no longer seems clear. her belief that scientists are trying to blur the distinction between `how' and `why' questions = obscure + blurred blurred The line between fact and fiction is becoming blurred; To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink; A filter which averages pixels together to soften the image, and can be used to minimize subtle frame-to-frame differences Normally when compressing movies, you will get better results with Media Cleaner's Adaptive Noise Reduction filter; a hazy or indistinct representation; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz"; {i} fog, haze; stain; dirt; something that is hazy and unclear to sight; If your vision blurs, or if something blurs it, you cannot see things clearly. Her eyes, behind her glasses, began to blur Sweat ran from his forehead into his eyes, blurring his vision. + blurred blurred visual disturbances like eye-strain and blurred vision; That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance; to make less distinct or clear; "The haze blurs the hills"; A moral stain or blot; to make less distinct or clear; "The haze blurs the hills; Denotes a photograph in which movement, either camera movement, zoom lens movement or movement within the scene (e g a subject in motion), is recorded at a slower shutter speed than is necessary to "freeze" the motion as a sharp image Blur is often intentionally created by a photographer who wishes to convey a sense of motion; To make less clear, to run together; Unsharpness because of the movement of the camera or subject during exposure Blur can be used for many creative effects In computer imaging, the use of Blur controls to selectively soften parts of the image; When a thing blurs or when something blurs it, you cannot see it clearly because its edges are no longer distinct. This creates a spectrum of colours at the edges of objects which blurs the image If you move your eyes and your head, the picture will blur. + blurred blurred blurred black and white photographs; {f} make foggy, make vague; make dim; dirty, soil; The art of softening the detail of a image The process can be applied selectively to portions of an image
blurred: Out of focus; partially obscured; smudged
blurred: Simple past tense and past participle of blur
blurring: present participle of blur
blurred: {s} foggy, vague
blurred: Past tense of blur
blurred: Wells
blurred: indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes"
blurred: unclear in form or expression; "the blurred aims of the group"; "sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded"- H
blurred: unclear in form or expression; "the blurred aims of the group"; "sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded"- H G Wells
blurring: In video systems, a global distortion, characterized by reduced sharpness of edges and limited spatial detail
blurring: A commonly reported symptom of macular degeneration in which patients report that lines or edges of objects lose their sharpness
blurs: plural of blur