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I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not - the big things in the small things.
Rachel Joyce

Meaning of "blurring" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BLURRING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLURRING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Blurring is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb blurring in English.

WHAT DOES BLURRING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Blur

Blur may refer to: In vision and optics: ▪ Defocus aberration, blurring of an image due to incorrect focus ▪ Motion blur, blurring of an image due to movement of the subject or imaging system ▪ Bokeh, the appearance of out-of-focus areas in a photograph...

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BLURRING

PRESENT

Present
I blur
you blur
he/she/it blurs
we blur
you blur
they blur
Present continuous
I am blurring
you are blurring
he/she/it is blurring
we are blurring
you are blurring
they are blurring
Present perfect
I have blurred
you have blurred
he/she/it has blurred
we have blurred
you have blurred
they have blurred
Present perfect continuous
I have been blurring
you have been blurring
he/she/it has been blurring
we have been blurring
you have been blurring
they have been blurring
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I blurred
you blurred
he/she/it blurred
we blurred
you blurred
they blurred
Past continuous
I was blurring
you were blurring
he/she/it was blurring
we were blurring
you were blurring
they were blurring
Past perfect
I had blurred
you had blurred
he/she/it had blurred
we had blurred
you had blurred
they had blurred
Past perfect continuous
I had been blurring
you had been blurring
he/she/it had been blurring
we had been blurring
you had been blurring
they had been blurring
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will blur
you will blur
he/she/it will blur
we will blur
you will blur
they will blur
Future continuous
I will be blurring
you will be blurring
he/she/it will be blurring
we will be blurring
you will be blurring
they will be blurring
Future perfect
I will have blurred
you will have blurred
he/she/it will have blurred
we will have blurred
you will have blurred
they will have blurred
Future perfect continuous
I will have been blurring
you will have been blurring
he/she/it will have been blurring
we will have been blurring
you will have been blurring
they will have been blurring
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would blurring
you would blurring
he/she/it would blurring
we would blurring
you would blurring
they would blurring
Conditional continuous
I would be blurring
you would be blurring
he/she/it would be blurring
we would be blurring
you would be blurring
they would be blurring
Conditional perfect
I would have blurring
you would have blurring
he/she/it would have blurring
we would have blurring
you would have blurring
they would have blurring
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been blurring
you would have been blurring
he/she/it would have been blurring
we would have been blurring
you would have been blurring
they would have been blurring
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you blur
we let´s blur
you blur
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to blur
Past participle
blurred
Present Participle
blurring
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BLURRING

bluntness
blur
blurb
blurbist
blurred
blurred vision
blurredly
blurredness
blurrily
blurriness
blurringly
blurry
blurt
blurter
blush
blusher
blushet
blushful
blushing
blushingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE BLURRING

barring
bring
charring
conferring
earring
furring
herring
incurring
jarring
occurring
preferring
recurring
red herring
referring
scarring
slurring
sparring
starring
stirring
transferring
warring

Synonyms and antonyms of blurring in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BLURRING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «blurring» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of blurring

Translation of «blurring» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BLURRING

Find out the translation of blurring to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of blurring from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «blurring» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

模糊
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

difuminando
570 millions of speakers

English

blurring
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

धुंधला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عدم وضوح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

размытость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

esbater
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অস্পষ্টতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

flou
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kabur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unschärfe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ぼけ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

흐림
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kabur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

làm mờ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மங்கலான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अस्पष्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bulanık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sfocatura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zacieranie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розмитість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

estomparea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θόλωμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vervaag
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

suddighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uskarphet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of blurring

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BLURRING»

The term «blurring» is quite widely used and occupies the 39.562 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BLURRING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «blurring» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «blurring» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about blurring

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7 QUOTES WITH «BLURRING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word blurring.
1
Drew Curtis
Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.
2
Rachel Joyce
I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not - the big things in the small things.
3
Guy Gavriel Kay
I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.
4
Thurston Moore
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.
5
Ruth Ozeki
Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.
6
Jesse Plemons
'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.
7
Chloe Sevigny
I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the early-'90s club scene. I had really short hair and started blurring the line a bit. But for me, grade school was about Benetton, Esprit, and Guess jeans.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLURRING»

Discover the use of blurring in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to blurring and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life
"Allan Kaprow's essays sound fresh and new. . .. Artists of the world, read this--you have nothing to lose but your equilibrium."--Lucy R. Lippard, author of Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America
Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley, 2003
2
Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More ...
In Blurring the Color Line, Alba explores a future in which socially mobile minorities could blur stark boundaries and gain much more control over the social expression of racial differences.
Richard Alba, Richard D Alba, 2012
3
Blurring The Boundaries: The Declining Significance of Age
Jack Levin is the American Sociological Association’s 2009 Winner of the "Public Understanding of Sociology" Award. This short book communicates the power and importance of sociological thinking to major social trends.
Jack Levin, 2013
4
Higher Education in Southeast Asia: Blurring Borders, ...
This is the first book to systematically chart and comparatively assess the trend towards private higher education in Southeast Asia.
Anthony Welch, 2011
5
Blurring the Boundaries: Explorations to the Fringes of ...
This collection features twenty genre-bending essays from today’s most renowned teachers and writers—including original work from Michael Martone, Marcia Aldrich, Dinty W. Moore, Lia Purpura, and Robin Hemley, among others.
B.J. Hollars, 2013
6
Social Innovation: Blurring Boundaries to Reconfigure Markets
As this volume underlines, social innovation offers potential solutions to climate change, the crisis of the welfare state, health pandemics and failures, social dislocation and inequality, and educational failure.
Alex Nicholls, Alex Murdock, 2012
7
The Psychology of Entertainment Media: Blurring the Lines ...
In this volume, psychologists and communication experts present theory on understanding and predicting how learning occurs through media consumption.
L. J. Shrum, 2012
8
Humans, Animals, Machines: Blurring Boundaries
Examines the overlap and blurring of boundaries among humans, animals, and machines.
Glen A. Mazis, 2008
9
Blurring the Lines: Charter, Public, Private and Religious ...
A volume in Politics of Education Book Series Series Editors: Lora Cohen-Vogel, Bruce S. Cooper, and Bonnie Fusarelli This book, Blurring the Lines, has immediate appeal to policy-makers, and analysis in public and private sectors, as well ...
Janet D. Mulvey, Bruce S. Cooper, Arthur Maloney, 2010
10
Blurring the lines
This book presents essays and case studies that explore and demonstrate the current state-of-the-art in CAD/CAM applications, as well as future trends.
André Chaszar, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLURRING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term blurring is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Life on the Border: Blurring the lines that separate Detroit and …
Using perch for bait along Fox Creek at Mariner's Park, this group of fishermen meet every Saturday in summer. Across the creek and behind ... «Model D, Jul 15»
2
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is terrifying through the eyes of a …
Faces twist and morph as walls melt, blurring the lines between animate and inanimate, organic and inorganic. A man groans into the camera ... «The Verge, Jul 15»
3
The Art Behind Vera Neumann's Products
“We blame Andy for blurring the line between art and business, but Vera blurred it before he did.” Ms. Neumann manufactured her fashionable ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
4
In Conversation With Jake Witzenfeld and Khader Abu-Seif of …
Now is the time, because if we don't start blurring the lines and creating a global assimilation, the repercussions, I think, are going to be ... «Out Magazine, Jul 15»
5
39th Firecracker Fast 5K Blurring divisional lines
Runners take off at the start of the 39th running of the Firecracker Fast 5K on Saturday. A field of 1,253 finished the race, which began at the ... «Arkansas Online, Jul 15»
6
Blurring language boundaries | Chennai NYOOOZ
Secondly, an actor like Kamal Haasan has fans who do not speak the language. “In the long run, subtitled versions will slowly add value, not ... «NYOOOZ, Jul 15»
7
Blurring language boundaries
After the box-office success of Kaakka Muttai , the Tamil film that won two national awards, the new Kamal Haasan film, Papanasam, has been ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
8
Robin Thicke blames breakup for blurring his testimony
NEW YORK — Robin Thicke says the deposition for the "Blurred Lines" case took a back seat to his crumbling marriage, in his first interview ... «Hamilton Spectator, Jul 15»
9
Jonathan Deeb On the Blurring Lines Between Cannes Categories
One of the things that I've picked up here is that there is such a blurring. The campaign that won the Grand Prix for Radio, the Jury said it wasn't ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
10
3 Signs That Kano Blurring The Line Between Religion And State
The sentencing of nine people to death for blasphemy is only the most recent in a string of controversial rulings involving Kano state Sharia courts. Here are ... «NAIJ.COM, Jul 15»

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