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burs, plural;
  1. A rough sounding of the sound r, esp. with a uvular trill (a “French r”) as in certain Northern England accents

  2. (loosely) A regional accent characterized by such a trill
    • - a soft Scottish burr
  3. A whirring sound, such as a telephone ringing tone or the sound of cogs turning

  4. A rough edge or ridge left on an object (esp. of metal) by the action of a tool or machine

  5. A small rotary cutting tool with a shaped end, used chiefly in woodworking and dentistry

  6. A small surgical drill for making holes in bone, esp. in the skull

  7. A siliceous rock used for millstones

  8. A whetstone

  9. A ring of bone at the base of a deer's antler

  1. (bur) remove the burrs from
  2. (bur) seed vessel having hooks or prickles
  3. (bur) small bit used in dentistry or surgery
  4. BURS (bottom-up rewrite system) theory tackles the problem of taking a complex expression tree or intermediate language term and finding a good translation to machine code for a particular architecture. Implementations of BURS often employ dynamic programming to solve this problem.
  5. Bürs is a municipality in the district of Bludenz in Vorarlberg, Austria.
  6. The Burs were a Dacian tribe living in Dacia in the first and second centuries of the Common Era, with their capital city at Buridava. They allied with other tribes in the region to support the efforts by Decebal, the Dacian king, to turn back the Romans. ...
  7. A bur (also spelled burr) is a seed or dry fruit in which the seeds bear hooks or teeth which attach themselves to fur or clothing of passing animals or people. The hooks or teeth can be irritants and very hard to get off of clothing, such as wool or cotton. It was the inspiration for Velcro.
  8. (bur) A rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants; Any of several plants having such husks; A rotary cutting implement having a selection of variously shaped heads
  9. (BUR) An acronym for Built-Up Roof. See Built-Up Roof.
  10. (Bur) so, D. V., Os., ix, 6; x, 8, translating Vulgate lappa, "burdock", for Hebrew khoakh and qosh. Khoakh recurs in Proverbs 26:9; Cant., ii, 2 (D. V. "thorns"); 2 Kings 14:9; 2 Chronicles 25:18; Job 31:40 (D.V. "thistle"); "thorn" is the ordinary meaning of qosh. ...
  11. (bur) a rough or spiny covering of a fruit.
  12. (BUR) ("a toddis heid and bur"), brush (?).
  13. (BUR) Bargaining Unit Representative; also referred to as a Unit Rep. Each bargaining unit on a campus has its own Bargaining Unit Representative. The Bargaining Unit Representative for Unit 9 might be referred to as BUR 9 or Unit 9 Rep.
  14. (BUR) Billing Update Record
  15. (BUR) bilateral ureteral occlusion
  16. (Bur) (Icelandic) [from burdr birth] Emanation of Buri, primeval root of being in the Norse Eddas. From Bur sprang the creative trinity: Odin (Allfather), Vile (divine will), and Vi or Ve (awe, sanctity). ...
  17. (Bur) A slight ridge of metal raised on the edges of a line either engraved by the burin, or the dry-point, and which is removed by the scraper, as it retains superfluous ink in printing a plate, and has the effect of  a smear.
  18. (Bur) A slotted, multi-bladed rotary cutting instrument which is placed in a handpiece. Those made for high-speed handpieces are usually made of high carbon steel. There are burs for cutting metal, hard tissue (teeth and bone), stone (plaster) and plastics (composites and dentures).
  19. (Bur) A unit of dispersal containing one or more achenes, characterized by spine-tipped, knob-like, or winged bracts (e.g., Ambrosia, Arctium).
  20. (Bur) This stands for "buried" or "burial" and is usually followed by a date and the name of a cemetery or town.
  21. (Bur) the drill bit used in a dental drill. Available in either carbide or diamond coated, it is attached to the handpiece/dental drill and does the actual cutting of tooth structure/bone structure.
  22. (bur) A spiny dispersal unit formed by a rough prickly husk surrounding seed(s) or fruit(s).
  23. (bur) Fruit or fruiting inflorescence with awns or bristles, often barbed. (e.g., Xanthium strumarium)
  24. (bur) a steel or tungsten carbide rotary cutting instrument
  25. (bur) n. hand-guard of a spear