Definition of burr in English:

burr

noun bəːbər

1A whirring sound, such as a telephone ringing tone or the sound of cogs turning.
Example sentencesExamples
- It consists of hums and burrs and the shush of compressed air engaging and disengaging continually.
- A heartbeat, a voice, and a burr of conscience I continue to gratefully hear.
- We made do with the pips on digital Radio 2, and the engaged burr of mobiles as the servers overflowed.
Synonyms
note, beep, bleep, meep, whine, buzz, warble, signal
1. 1.1 A rough pronunciation of the letter r, especially with a uvular trill as in a Northumberland accent.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Scotch-Irish are unlikely to share speech patterns and the characteristic burr (a distinctive trilled ‘r’) with the Scots.
  Amongst the crowd, whether on or off horses, the old fashioned accents of the gentry were mingled with the softer burr of the yeoman farmers and the downright rusticity of the less well-off.
  Scots may lose their regional ties in becoming New Zealanders, and the accent softens or disappears apart from the Southland burr.
  Yes, it's the West Country burr which makes that rrrrrr sound.
  That genial smile, the fisherman's countenance, the soft burr - George Baker could only come from the West Country.
  The best way I know of to learn a uvular trill, sometimes called a 'burr', is by practicing gargling.
  Northumbrian English is somewhat famous for the Northumbrian burr, a rhotic realized as a uvular fricative (or approximant).
  Clune delivers the line with a soft West Country burr and adds, ‘That's what I'm going to call my show: Boy Crazy.’
  Synonyms
  pronunciation, intonation, enunciation, elocution, articulation, inflection, tone, modulation, cadence, timbre, utterance, manner of speaking, speech pattern, speech, diction, delivery
2. 1.2 (loosely) a regional accent.
  a soft Scottish burr
  Example sentencesExamples
  A keen huntsman, Briggs, immediately turned his Lancashire burr to the topic of fox hunting.
  The man spoke in a soft American burr, almost without a pause.
  Armed with a Scottish burr but scant design experience, his vision was to build an authentic links in America, something akin to an 1880s course, but done with modern equipment.
  Now, he says in his soft Scots burr, he doesn't know what sort of accent he has.
  He's the fearless interlocutor with a Yorkshire burr; ladies and gentlemen, please welcome: Michael Parkinson!
  They can tell that I am from the same mould as James Bond but without the Celtic burr.
  His voice was soft but had a slight Scottish burr to it.
  His Hampshire burr was synonymous with lazy summer days and the sound of leather on willow, and it is almost impossible to believe that his last commentary was the 1980 Centenary Test at Lord's.
  ‘The information I have will be devastating for the Telegraph,’ he insists in his deep Scottish burr.
  Wemyss now speaks mostly fluent English, heavily accented but with a Scottish burr breaking through when she is relaxed.
  ‘The walls in York are more museums,’ he says, in a soft Dublin accent that's overlaid by a Cheshire burr.
  She says the Scottish burr just melts her away and she recalls a long-forgotten trip to Edinburgh just after the war.
  Victor could only laugh as Quentin's Scottish burr came out more pronounced at the end of his speech.
  He stopped in front of R., leaned down and said to her, in a thick Scots burr, ‘Happy holidays.’
  Linguistic idiosyncrasies which had previously distinguished Stanningley-speak from a Bingley burr would be consigned to history.
  By the time she was 35, she still looked as if she was in her twenties, red-haired, slim and feisty, with a marked Scottish burr and a surfeit of sex appeal.
  Cope's accent is all over the place: part-Liverpudlian, part-American, but not much of a West Country burr and no trace of the Wales he was spirited from as a kid.
  ‘So sad what's happened with Scottish football,’ he mourns in his soft Fife burr.
  In comparison, my grandfather's voice was a deep, rich Irish burr that was almost unintelligible, although it was infinitely easier to understand in person that it had ever been over the phone.
2A rough edge or ridge left on an object (especially of metal) by the action of a tool or machine.
Example sentencesExamples
- The tooling includes a deburring operation in which burrs are actually pushed back into the component so that a clean edge is left on the part.
- His dad, Peter, who is a plumber, said: ‘We tried releasing the tube with soap but it had burrs on it from being cut.’
- Use a metal file to remove any burrs and to dull the sharp cut edges.
- It slices through any material (including six inches of titanium) without leaving any burrs, or rough edges.
- The company's blasting capabilities can be used to achieve specific surface roughness or to affect surface hardness of parts and in some applications reduce or remove burrs.
- This involved removing all the rough edges and casting burrs so there were no sharp edges.
- After tooling, cut off mortar tailings with trowel and brush excess mortar burrs and dust from face of brick.
- Sharpen only the beveled side of a blade, though you should remove burrs on the flat side.
- At a minimum, sand down the area to remove any roughness or burrs, and touch it up with paint.
- I tried suggesting he tape over the burr or maybe file it down but he stubbornly insisted that it was fine, cursing under his breath the whole time he cranked the mill.
- On the plastic it will enter readily and throw up a burr at the edges of the hole.
- In engraving, fine lines are incised directly into the plate and the burrs removed to produce clean, sharp lines on the print.
- Apparently the parachute type pin had too sharp edges or maybe a little burr.
- When you complete the cut, file off any burrs and install it.
- The rifling for the entire length of the tube must be smooth and free of burrs and scars.
- When working with it, you will want to wear gloves and other appropriate clothing to protect yourself from sharp edges and corners, and from the slivers and burrs left from cutting.
- Take the burrs off the cuts with a pocket knife or sandpaper or fingernail file.
- The threads for the bottom bracket were cut precisely with no slag or burs.
- When done, give the wall a light sanding to knock down any burrs or ridges.
- The cutters can be produced with high positive rakes, which contribute to smooth surfaces and reduced burrs.
3A small rotary cutting tool with a shaped end, used chiefly in woodworking and dentistry.
Example sentencesExamples
- He or she then uses the shaver burr to reshape the head/neck junction to restore normal head/neck offset, which eliminates impingement.
- The assistant smooths irregular edges with a motorized burr.
- To remove soil-derived particulates on the tooth surface, all enamel surfaces were abraded to a depth >100 [mu] m with acid-cleaned, tungsten carbide dental burrs.
- For example, the use of dental burrs creates a fine aerosol spray that can carry bacteria, etc.
- Long a favourite of jewellers and metalworkers, diamond burrs are now being discovered by woodworkers, woodturners and woodcarvers.
- Inside, the wood in the burr is winding round and round itself giving a magnificent complex surface.
- The burr, connected to a drive shaft and a turbine powered by compressed air, rotates at speeds up to 200 000 rpm
- Most important, it's a burr rather than a blade grinder.
- The dissector incorporates an electrically powered handpiece and single-use, disposable cutting blades and burrs.
1. 3.1 A small surgical drill for making holes in bone, especially in the skull.
  Example sentencesExamples
  We note that the brighter signal from the center of the tumor may be partly due to reduced attenuation of the light through the burr hole.
  That's one group but the other group had the burr holes made in their skull but they didn't actually have the cells put in their brain.
  The needle was slowly retracted, the burr hole left open and the skin sutured closed.
  The greatest opportunity for cost savings is found in reprocessing critical devices, such as diagnostic cardiac catheters, forceps, and orthopedic burrs.
  This can be performed with either an osteotome or a spherical motorized burr.
  The surgeon uses a motorized 5-mm round burr to expose bleeding bone from the endplates of the vertebral bodies on either side of the disc space to prepare the space for the bone graft.
  Using a suction/shaver with a round or an oval-shaped burr, the surgeon resects bone along the inner aspect of the lateral femoral condyle.
  The surgeon completes the notchplasty with a spherical motorized arthroscopic burr until the posterior edge of the femur is identified and probed.
  Arthroscopic surgery is often performed to take out inflamed bursal tissue and create more room for the rotator-cuff tendons by using a burr to remove some of the underside of the acromion bone.
  The first was an emergency suturing of her scalp lacerations and insertion of an intra cranial pressure monitor through a burr hole.
  The surgeon makes a 6-cm incision and uses a 5.0 mm round cutting burr to drill the burr hole.
  The devices named include disposable arthroscopic surgery blades and burrs, non-electric biopsy forceps, ureteral stone dislodgers, and sagittal saw blades.
  The surgeon creates an internal subcutaneous area for the distal end of the DBS lead, lateral to the burr hole defect, so that it can be retrieved easily when the pulse generator is implanted.
  Instruments include a sharp periosteal elevator without tip burrs and fine needle holders for 6-0 suture.
  This infusion is not stopped until the burr hole is drilled and the surgeon is ready to begin microelectrode recording.
  A further development was to use a brace and bit to ream out (as bone dust) burr holes about 1 cm in diameter.
  It was removed via a burr hole, and he made a full recovery.
  This allows the surgeon to perform surgery through a small burr hole.
4mass noun A siliceous rock used for millstones.
Example sentencesExamples
- The miller knows that there should be a difference in the dress for hulling stones, splitting or cracking stones, wheat stones, middlings stones and vertical burr stones.
- Mervin Austin mills his own flour using French burr stones and Derbyshire peak stones.
- The urban manufacturers in Edinburgh and Glasgow usually made up their millstones from a centre-piece of indigenous rock with radial French burr segments around it.
- The best and most popular stone ever discovered for grinding wheat into white flour is the French Burr.
1. 4.1count noun A whetstone.
  Example sentencesExamples
  These stones became the first burrs for grist mills.
5A prickly seed case or flower head that clings to clothing and animal fur.
Example sentencesExamples
- We always get through these rough patches, but let's face it, no one ever likes sitting in a patch of grass burrs at the time no matter how funny the story may be later.
- Memories are made of this; they cling to objects and places like burrs to a sleeve.
- The area is a mess of dead grass, burrs and broken glass.
- Good-looking and backed by a healthy trust fund, he buzzes around from store to store, hot spot to hot spot, picking up women like burrs.
- The accompaniment is an ostinato that sticks to the memory like a burr and becomes hypnotic.
- It produces one inch long bur-like fruits with a single seed in each bur.
- According to National Park Service biologists, the burrs act like Velcro.
- We have to chance getting stickers in our tongue, if we want to get the burrs out of our feet.
- Wherever one grows up, there are local names that infiltrate our consciousness, get stuck in our memories like burrs snagged on a sock.
- He worked to make a synthetic material that duplicated the burs clinging to his wool socks.
- There were burrs in its coat and when it rolled over on the lane, wiggling in ecstasy to have its belly rubbed, we could tell that it was a male.
- Trees of these varieties produce only a single, large nut in each burr (nut-case) instead of several small ones.
- The plant must be eliminated before the flowers ripen and form the brown prickly burrs which spread the seeds.
- Ferns brushed her ankles and burs snagged her skirt as she stumbled along compulsively.
- All right, so once you got the burrs out and started writing down, what were you able to say in your story about this wonderful event?
- These plants are at their maximum stage of maturity and contain little leaf material in proportion to burs and stems.
- His clothes were smudged with grass and mud, his hands covered in small burr scratches and dirt.
- He had a bunch of burrs in his mane, but I left them alone.
- She shook the twigs, burs, and dead leaves off of her skirt, and smoothed her bodice.
- I watch out for the grass burrs and the fire ants with studied vigilance, but after years of living in Texas and just casually surveying such wildflower patches, I'm really looking at them for the first time.
1. 5.1usually as modifier A plant that produces burrs, for example bur reed.
  Example sentencesExamples
  With droughts, rust, rabbits, Bathurst burr, locusts, low wheat and wool prices and a depression his parents had to struggle to provide for their large family.
  Flora and fauna are often named after established and now familiar places: Bathurst burr, Burdekin duck, Moreton Bay fig, Murray cod, and Swan River mahogany.
  He did general farm work fencing and grubbing bathhurst burr.
  Spot the walnut tree, toss the multi-hooked seed heads of the burr plants, help these path dwellers hitch a fleecy ride.
  On show in the gallery is a striking coffee table fashioned from an elm burr found in a Tipperary wood.
  When we got here the nettles and sticky burrs had grown very high.
6as modifier Denoting wood containing knots or other growths which show a pattern of dense swirls in the grain when sawn, used for veneers and other decorative woodwork.
burr walnut
Example sentencesExamples
- Made out of a combination of European burr walnut, India rosewood and ripple sycamore, it took more than 200 hours of production manager Tim Smith's time to create.
- I have nine pieces in the exhibition - a new body of work in Scottish hardwoods including ash and burr elm.
- As life decisions go, it's a lot tougher than choosing between the traditional burr walnut and the gray-stained maple veneer for the interior of his Jaguar.
- The elegantly crafted table is constructed in English walnut with inlays of burr elm and satinwood stringing.
- The interior is elegantly styled with three circular displays of crisp, clear graphics and broad burr walnut moulding.
- While he prefers to work with solid woods such as native oak, cherry, walnut and cedar, he also frequently uses some speciality veneers and inlays including masur birch, bird's eye maple and oak burr.
- Working on a rosewood corner cupboard veneered in burr walnut, and featuring an inlaid marquetry honeysuckle design, will always remain one of Luke's favourite jobs.
- The pieces should be sturdy, worm-free and consider just how will you clean up the mess if you send a slop of beef gravy down that gorgeous burr walnut façade?
- On these cars, this comes in the form of customised alloy wheels and special paint ranges, as well a host of specification upgrades, including Java leather, burr walnut or maple wood trims.
- Mostly here it is pines but there were some maples and the understory verge was thistle and burr shoulder to shoulder with thistle-like knapweed.
- For the work-minded bosses, there are burr walnut-finished business trays that fold down from the front seat-backs and are big enough to hold a notebook computer.
7The coronet of a deer's antler.
Example sentencesExamples
- I signed this piece by carving my initials and 07 on the back of the burr.
- This tie is done on a prairie find sun-bleached mule deer shed antler burr. I augmented the color of the burr with my own dye technique.
- To make a comb the craftsman first cut off the tines or points and the burr (the swelling where the antler joined the skull) leaving just the beam (main part of the antler).

verb bəːbər

1no object Make a whirring sound.
Example sentencesExamples
- First one brightly colored lorikeet burred past Zack's head, then another and another, until at least nine or ten birds were perched on the rail above the zookeeper's head.
- At this point, I make a burring noise and replace the receiver.
- The electric bell burred softly again through the house, and the man heard it, and his eyes rested enquiringly on the door of the library.
- He stood straight up, peered at some clouds, and made a long wailing call, rounded off by some burring notes.
- I hear the burring snarl of a big bike cranking up, and if the rider emerges at just the right angle, one of the wheels might break my neck.
- If a contraption doesn't beep or burr when he switches it on, it's just too demeaning for him even to contemplate.
- White gouts of water kicked up and a few pellets skipped by with burring whines.
1. 1.1 Speak with a regional accent, especially one in which the letter r is prominent.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Scots people are much nicer - proud, a little cold perhaps - but they were charming, with their lovely soft burring voices.
  They started the singing of their hymns, Newlands burring away in his boots and MacDougall slicing the words like cheese.
  ‘Gran… ‘Wayne burred warningly, to which Grandma Eva responded with a look of disbelief.
  I felt the mattress shift and her low voice burred almost in my ear.
  ‘There's nothing finer in this country,’ he burred.
  "Ye're loaded, are ye, Parcy?" asked the genial host in the burring Northumbrian voice we know so well even to-day.
2with object Form a rough edge on (metal).
Example sentencesExamples
- I hit my first snag when I managed to burr one of the screws, which made it impossible to remove the arm at all!
- If you use a 24-tooth blade, which is what is needed for thin metal, there will be very little burring of the edge.

Phrases

a burr under someone's saddle

informal A persistent source of irritation.
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘He has a burr under his saddle,’ I said and the boy turned around, startled.
- Ron Sider has been a burr in the ethical saddle of the evangelical world for decades.
- Though it would be difficult for Earnhardt to admit, Gordon was the burr in his saddle.
- Frankly I think the Empress was just being cranky but it irritated me all the same and the incident was still a burr under my saddle today.
- I am moved to write you about a book review in your last issue and a closely related subject that has long been a burr under my saddle.

Origin

Middle English (in sense 5 of the noun): probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Danish burre 'burr, burdock', Swedish kard-borre 'burdock'.

Rhymes

à deux, agent provocateur, astir, auteur, aver, bestir, blur, bon viveur, Chandigarh, coiffeur, concur, confer, connoisseur, cordon-bleu, cri de cœur, cur, danseur, Darfur, defer, demur, de rigueur, deter, entrepreneur, er, err, farceur, faute de mieux, fir, flâneur, Fleur, force majeure, fur, hauteur, her, infer, inter, jongleur, Kerr, littérateur, longueur, masseur, Monseigneur, monsieur, Montesquieu, Montreux, murre, myrrh, occur, pas de deux, Pasteur, per, pisteur, poseur, pot-au-feu, prefer, prie-dieu, pudeur, purr, raconteur, rapporteur, refer, répétiteur, restaurateur, saboteur, sabreur, seigneur, Sher, shirr, sir, skirr, slur, souteneur, spur, stir, tant mieux, transfer, Ur, vieux jeu, voyageur, voyeur, were, whirr

Definition of burr in US English:

burr

nounbərbər

1A whirring sound, such as a telephone ringing tone or the sound of cogs turning.
Example sentencesExamples
- It consists of hums and burrs and the shush of compressed air engaging and disengaging continually.
- A heartbeat, a voice, and a burr of conscience I continue to gratefully hear.
- We made do with the pips on digital Radio 2, and the engaged burr of mobiles as the servers overflowed.
Synonyms
note, beep, bleep, meep, whine, buzz, warble, signal
1. 1.1in singular A rough sounding of the sound r, especially with a uvular trill (a “French r”) as in certain Northern England accents.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Scotch-Irish are unlikely to share speech patterns and the characteristic burr (a distinctive trilled ‘r’) with the Scots.
  Clune delivers the line with a soft West Country burr and adds, ‘That's what I'm going to call my show: Boy Crazy.’
  The best way I know of to learn a uvular trill, sometimes called a 'burr', is by practicing gargling.
  That genial smile, the fisherman's countenance, the soft burr - George Baker could only come from the West Country.
  Amongst the crowd, whether on or off horses, the old fashioned accents of the gentry were mingled with the softer burr of the yeoman farmers and the downright rusticity of the less well-off.
  Northumbrian English is somewhat famous for the Northumbrian burr, a rhotic realized as a uvular fricative (or approximant).
  Yes, it's the West Country burr which makes that rrrrrr sound.
  Scots may lose their regional ties in becoming New Zealanders, and the accent softens or disappears apart from the Southland burr.
  Synonyms
  pronunciation, intonation, enunciation, elocution, articulation, inflection, tone, modulation, cadence, timbre, utterance, manner of speaking, speech pattern, speech, diction, delivery
2. 1.2 (loosely) a regional accent.
  a soft Scottish burr
  Example sentencesExamples
  His Hampshire burr was synonymous with lazy summer days and the sound of leather on willow, and it is almost impossible to believe that his last commentary was the 1980 Centenary Test at Lord's.
  By the time she was 35, she still looked as if she was in her twenties, red-haired, slim and feisty, with a marked Scottish burr and a surfeit of sex appeal.
  Linguistic idiosyncrasies which had previously distinguished Stanningley-speak from a Bingley burr would be consigned to history.
  The man spoke in a soft American burr, almost without a pause.
  Cope's accent is all over the place: part-Liverpudlian, part-American, but not much of a West Country burr and no trace of the Wales he was spirited from as a kid.
  ‘The information I have will be devastating for the Telegraph,’ he insists in his deep Scottish burr.
  ‘So sad what's happened with Scottish football,’ he mourns in his soft Fife burr.
  ‘The walls in York are more museums,’ he says, in a soft Dublin accent that's overlaid by a Cheshire burr.
  She says the Scottish burr just melts her away and she recalls a long-forgotten trip to Edinburgh just after the war.
  Victor could only laugh as Quentin's Scottish burr came out more pronounced at the end of his speech.
  In comparison, my grandfather's voice was a deep, rich Irish burr that was almost unintelligible, although it was infinitely easier to understand in person that it had ever been over the phone.
  A keen huntsman, Briggs, immediately turned his Lancashire burr to the topic of fox hunting.
  He's the fearless interlocutor with a Yorkshire burr; ladies and gentlemen, please welcome: Michael Parkinson!
  They can tell that I am from the same mould as James Bond but without the Celtic burr.
  He stopped in front of R., leaned down and said to her, in a thick Scots burr, ‘Happy holidays.’
  Armed with a Scottish burr but scant design experience, his vision was to build an authentic links in America, something akin to an 1880s course, but done with modern equipment.
  Now, he says in his soft Scots burr, he doesn't know what sort of accent he has.
  His voice was soft but had a slight Scottish burr to it.
  Wemyss now speaks mostly fluent English, heavily accented but with a Scottish burr breaking through when she is relaxed.
2A rough edge or ridge left on an object (especially of metal) by the action of a tool or machine.
Example sentencesExamples
- When you complete the cut, file off any burrs and install it.
- At a minimum, sand down the area to remove any roughness or burrs, and touch it up with paint.
- This involved removing all the rough edges and casting burrs so there were no sharp edges.
- It slices through any material (including six inches of titanium) without leaving any burrs, or rough edges.
- The threads for the bottom bracket were cut precisely with no slag or burs.
- Sharpen only the beveled side of a blade, though you should remove burrs on the flat side.
- Take the burrs off the cuts with a pocket knife or sandpaper or fingernail file.
- Apparently the parachute type pin had too sharp edges or maybe a little burr.
- The tooling includes a deburring operation in which burrs are actually pushed back into the component so that a clean edge is left on the part.
- When working with it, you will want to wear gloves and other appropriate clothing to protect yourself from sharp edges and corners, and from the slivers and burrs left from cutting.
- Use a metal file to remove any burrs and to dull the sharp cut edges.
- The rifling for the entire length of the tube must be smooth and free of burrs and scars.
- After tooling, cut off mortar tailings with trowel and brush excess mortar burrs and dust from face of brick.
- The cutters can be produced with high positive rakes, which contribute to smooth surfaces and reduced burrs.
- His dad, Peter, who is a plumber, said: ‘We tried releasing the tube with soap but it had burrs on it from being cut.’
- I tried suggesting he tape over the burr or maybe file it down but he stubbornly insisted that it was fine, cursing under his breath the whole time he cranked the mill.
- When done, give the wall a light sanding to knock down any burrs or ridges.
- The company's blasting capabilities can be used to achieve specific surface roughness or to affect surface hardness of parts and in some applications reduce or remove burrs.
- On the plastic it will enter readily and throw up a burr at the edges of the hole.
- In engraving, fine lines are incised directly into the plate and the burrs removed to produce clean, sharp lines on the print.
3A small rotary cutting tool with a shaped end, used chiefly in woodworking and dentistry.
Example sentencesExamples
- Inside, the wood in the burr is winding round and round itself giving a magnificent complex surface.
- He or she then uses the shaver burr to reshape the head/neck junction to restore normal head/neck offset, which eliminates impingement.
- Long a favourite of jewellers and metalworkers, diamond burrs are now being discovered by woodworkers, woodturners and woodcarvers.
- The burr, connected to a drive shaft and a turbine powered by compressed air, rotates at speeds up to 200 000 rpm
- Most important, it's a burr rather than a blade grinder.
- To remove soil-derived particulates on the tooth surface, all enamel surfaces were abraded to a depth >100 [mu] m with acid-cleaned, tungsten carbide dental burrs.
- The assistant smooths irregular edges with a motorized burr.
- The dissector incorporates an electrically powered handpiece and single-use, disposable cutting blades and burrs.
- For example, the use of dental burrs creates a fine aerosol spray that can carry bacteria, etc.
1. 3.1 A small surgical drill for making holes in bone, especially in the skull.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The first was an emergency suturing of her scalp lacerations and insertion of an intra cranial pressure monitor through a burr hole.
  The surgeon uses a motorized 5-mm round burr to expose bleeding bone from the endplates of the vertebral bodies on either side of the disc space to prepare the space for the bone graft.
  The needle was slowly retracted, the burr hole left open and the skin sutured closed.
  Instruments include a sharp periosteal elevator without tip burrs and fine needle holders for 6-0 suture.
  It was removed via a burr hole, and he made a full recovery.
  A further development was to use a brace and bit to ream out (as bone dust) burr holes about 1 cm in diameter.
  That's one group but the other group had the burr holes made in their skull but they didn't actually have the cells put in their brain.
  We note that the brighter signal from the center of the tumor may be partly due to reduced attenuation of the light through the burr hole.
  Arthroscopic surgery is often performed to take out inflamed bursal tissue and create more room for the rotator-cuff tendons by using a burr to remove some of the underside of the acromion bone.
  This infusion is not stopped until the burr hole is drilled and the surgeon is ready to begin microelectrode recording.
  The surgeon makes a 6-cm incision and uses a 5.0 mm round cutting burr to drill the burr hole.
  The greatest opportunity for cost savings is found in reprocessing critical devices, such as diagnostic cardiac catheters, forceps, and orthopedic burrs.
  The surgeon completes the notchplasty with a spherical motorized arthroscopic burr until the posterior edge of the femur is identified and probed.
  The devices named include disposable arthroscopic surgery blades and burrs, non-electric biopsy forceps, ureteral stone dislodgers, and sagittal saw blades.
  This allows the surgeon to perform surgery through a small burr hole.
  The surgeon creates an internal subcutaneous area for the distal end of the DBS lead, lateral to the burr hole defect, so that it can be retrieved easily when the pulse generator is implanted.
  This can be performed with either an osteotome or a spherical motorized burr.
  Using a suction/shaver with a round or an oval-shaped burr, the surgeon resects bone along the inner aspect of the lateral femoral condyle.
4A type of siliceous rock used for millstones.
Example sentencesExamples
- Mervin Austin mills his own flour using French burr stones and Derbyshire peak stones.
- The best and most popular stone ever discovered for grinding wheat into white flour is the French Burr.
- The urban manufacturers in Edinburgh and Glasgow usually made up their millstones from a centre-piece of indigenous rock with radial French burr segments around it.
- The miller knows that there should be a difference in the dress for hulling stones, splitting or cracking stones, wheat stones, middlings stones and vertical burr stones.
1. 4.1 A whetstone.
  Example sentencesExamples
  These stones became the first burrs for grist mills.
5A prickly seed case or flower head that clings to clothing and animal fur.
Example sentencesExamples
- Ferns brushed her ankles and burs snagged her skirt as she stumbled along compulsively.
- It produces one inch long bur-like fruits with a single seed in each bur.
- The area is a mess of dead grass, burrs and broken glass.
- He had a bunch of burrs in his mane, but I left them alone.
- Memories are made of this; they cling to objects and places like burrs to a sleeve.
- Wherever one grows up, there are local names that infiltrate our consciousness, get stuck in our memories like burrs snagged on a sock.
- All right, so once you got the burrs out and started writing down, what were you able to say in your story about this wonderful event?
- His clothes were smudged with grass and mud, his hands covered in small burr scratches and dirt.
- Trees of these varieties produce only a single, large nut in each burr (nut-case) instead of several small ones.
- We have to chance getting stickers in our tongue, if we want to get the burrs out of our feet.
- According to National Park Service biologists, the burrs act like Velcro.
- Good-looking and backed by a healthy trust fund, he buzzes around from store to store, hot spot to hot spot, picking up women like burrs.
- She shook the twigs, burs, and dead leaves off of her skirt, and smoothed her bodice.
- I watch out for the grass burrs and the fire ants with studied vigilance, but after years of living in Texas and just casually surveying such wildflower patches, I'm really looking at them for the first time.
- The plant must be eliminated before the flowers ripen and form the brown prickly burrs which spread the seeds.
- These plants are at their maximum stage of maturity and contain little leaf material in proportion to burs and stems.
- He worked to make a synthetic material that duplicated the burs clinging to his wool socks.
- There were burrs in its coat and when it rolled over on the lane, wiggling in ecstasy to have its belly rubbed, we could tell that it was a male.
- We always get through these rough patches, but let's face it, no one ever likes sitting in a patch of grass burrs at the time no matter how funny the story may be later.
- The accompaniment is an ostinato that sticks to the memory like a burr and becomes hypnotic.
1. 5.1usually as modifier A plant that produces burrs, for example bur reed.
  Example sentencesExamples
  When we got here the nettles and sticky burrs had grown very high.
  Spot the walnut tree, toss the multi-hooked seed heads of the burr plants, help these path dwellers hitch a fleecy ride.
  Flora and fauna are often named after established and now familiar places: Bathurst burr, Burdekin duck, Moreton Bay fig, Murray cod, and Swan River mahogany.
  On show in the gallery is a striking coffee table fashioned from an elm burr found in a Tipperary wood.
  He did general farm work fencing and grubbing bathhurst burr.
  With droughts, rust, rabbits, Bathurst burr, locusts, low wheat and wool prices and a depression his parents had to struggle to provide for their large family.
6as modifier Denoting wood containing knots or other growths which show a pattern of dense swirls in the grain when sawn, used for veneers and other decorative woodwork.
burr walnut
Example sentencesExamples
- On these cars, this comes in the form of customised alloy wheels and special paint ranges, as well a host of specification upgrades, including Java leather, burr walnut or maple wood trims.
- Made out of a combination of European burr walnut, India rosewood and ripple sycamore, it took more than 200 hours of production manager Tim Smith's time to create.
- The pieces should be sturdy, worm-free and consider just how will you clean up the mess if you send a slop of beef gravy down that gorgeous burr walnut façade?
- The elegantly crafted table is constructed in English walnut with inlays of burr elm and satinwood stringing.
- The interior is elegantly styled with three circular displays of crisp, clear graphics and broad burr walnut moulding.
- Mostly here it is pines but there were some maples and the understory verge was thistle and burr shoulder to shoulder with thistle-like knapweed.
- I have nine pieces in the exhibition - a new body of work in Scottish hardwoods including ash and burr elm.
- While he prefers to work with solid woods such as native oak, cherry, walnut and cedar, he also frequently uses some speciality veneers and inlays including masur birch, bird's eye maple and oak burr.
- As life decisions go, it's a lot tougher than choosing between the traditional burr walnut and the gray-stained maple veneer for the interior of his Jaguar.
- For the work-minded bosses, there are burr walnut-finished business trays that fold down from the front seat-backs and are big enough to hold a notebook computer.
- Working on a rosewood corner cupboard veneered in burr walnut, and featuring an inlaid marquetry honeysuckle design, will always remain one of Luke's favourite jobs.
7A ring of bone at the base of a deer's antler.
Also called coronet
Example sentencesExamples
- To make a comb the craftsman first cut off the tines or points and the burr (the swelling where the antler joined the skull) leaving just the beam (main part of the antler).
- I signed this piece by carving my initials and 07 on the back of the burr.
- This tie is done on a prairie find sun-bleached mule deer shed antler burr. I augmented the color of the burr with my own dye technique.

verbbərbər

1no object Make a whirring sound.
Example sentencesExamples
- The electric bell burred softly again through the house, and the man heard it, and his eyes rested enquiringly on the door of the library.
- White gouts of water kicked up and a few pellets skipped by with burring whines.
- I hear the burring snarl of a big bike cranking up, and if the rider emerges at just the right angle, one of the wheels might break my neck.
- First one brightly colored lorikeet burred past Zack's head, then another and another, until at least nine or ten birds were perched on the rail above the zookeeper's head.
- At this point, I make a burring noise and replace the receiver.
- If a contraption doesn't beep or burr when he switches it on, it's just too demeaning for him even to contemplate.
- He stood straight up, peered at some clouds, and made a long wailing call, rounded off by some burring notes.
1. 1.1 Speak with an accent in which the sound r is trilled.
  with direct speech “I like to have a purrrpose,” she burrs
  Example sentencesExamples
  "Ye're loaded, are ye, Parcy?" asked the genial host in the burring Northumbrian voice we know so well even to-day.
  The Scots people are much nicer - proud, a little cold perhaps - but they were charming, with their lovely soft burring voices.
  They started the singing of their hymns, Newlands burring away in his boots and MacDougall slicing the words like cheese.
  I felt the mattress shift and her low voice burred almost in my ear.
  ‘There's nothing finer in this country,’ he burred.
  ‘Gran… ‘Wayne burred warningly, to which Grandma Eva responded with a look of disbelief.
2with object Form a rough edge on (metal)
the handles were fixed by rivets burred over on the shield's front
Example sentencesExamples
- If you use a 24-tooth blade, which is what is needed for thin metal, there will be very little burring of the edge.
- I hit my first snag when I managed to burr one of the screws, which made it impossible to remove the arm at all!

Phrases

a burr under one's saddle

informal A persistent source of irritation.
he had been a burr under the saddle of the government in his time
Example sentencesExamples
- I am moved to write you about a book review in your last issue and a closely related subject that has long been a burr under my saddle.
- ‘He has a burr under his saddle,’ I said and the boy turned around, startled.
- Frankly I think the Empress was just being cranky but it irritated me all the same and the incident was still a burr under my saddle today.
- Though it would be difficult for Earnhardt to admit, Gordon was the burr in his saddle.
- Ron Sider has been a burr in the ethical saddle of the evangelical world for decades.

Origin

Middle English (in burr (sense 5 of the noun)): probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Danish burre ‘burr, burdock’, Swedish kard-borre ‘burdock’.

单词	burr
释义	Definition of burr in English: burr noun bəːbər 1A whirring sound, such as a telephone ringing tone or the sound of cogs turning. Example sentencesExamples It consists of hums and burrs and the shush of compressed air engaging and disengaging continually. A heartbeat, a voice, and a burr of conscience I continue to gratefully hear. We made do with the pips on digital Radio 2, and the engaged burr of mobiles as the servers overflowed. Synonyms note, beep, bleep, meep, whine, buzz, warble, signal 1.1 A rough pronunciation of the letter r, especially with a uvular trill as in a Northumberland accent. Example sentencesExamples The Scotch-Irish are unlikely to share speech patterns and the characteristic burr (a distinctive trilled ‘r’) with the Scots. Amongst the crowd, whether on or off horses, the old fashioned accents of the gentry were mingled with the softer burr of the yeoman farmers and the downright rusticity of the less well-off. Scots may lose their regional ties in becoming New Zealanders, and the accent softens or disappears apart from the Southland burr. Yes, it's the West Country burr which makes that rrrrrr sound. That genial smile, the fisherman's countenance, the soft burr - George Baker could only come from the West Country. The best way I know of to learn a uvular trill, sometimes called a 'burr', is by practicing gargling. Northumbrian English is somewhat famous for the Northumbrian burr, a rhotic realized as a uvular fricative (or approximant). Clune delivers the line with a soft West Country burr and adds, ‘That's what I'm going to call my show: Boy Crazy.’ Synonyms pronunciation, intonation, enunciation, elocution, articulation, inflection, tone, modulation, cadence, timbre, utterance, manner of speaking, speech pattern, speech, diction, delivery 1.2 (loosely) a regional accent. a soft Scottish burr Example sentencesExamples A keen huntsman, Briggs, immediately turned his Lancashire burr to the topic of fox hunting. The man spoke in a soft American burr, almost without a pause. Armed with a Scottish burr but scant design experience, his vision was to build an authentic links in America, something akin to an 1880s course, but done with modern equipment. Now, he says in his soft Scots burr, he doesn't know what sort of accent he has. He's the fearless interlocutor with a Yorkshire burr; ladies and gentlemen, please welcome: Michael Parkinson! They can tell that I am from the same mould as James Bond but without the Celtic burr. His voice was soft but had a slight Scottish burr to it. His Hampshire burr was synonymous with lazy summer days and the sound of leather on willow, and it is almost impossible to believe that his last commentary was the 1980 Centenary Test at Lord's. ‘The information I have will be devastating for the Telegraph,’ he insists in his deep Scottish burr. Wemyss now speaks mostly fluent English, heavily accented but with a Scottish burr breaking through when she is relaxed. ‘The walls in York are more museums,’ he says, in a soft Dublin accent that's overlaid by a Cheshire burr. She says the Scottish burr just melts her away and she recalls a long-forgotten trip to Edinburgh just after the war. Victor could only laugh as Quentin's Scottish burr came out more pronounced at the end of his speech. He stopped in front of R., leaned down and said to her, in a thick Scots burr, ‘Happy holidays.’ Linguistic idiosyncrasies which had previously distinguished Stanningley-speak from a Bingley burr would be consigned to history. By the time she was 35, she still looked as if she was in her twenties, red-haired, slim and feisty, with a marked Scottish burr and a surfeit of sex appeal. Cope's accent is all over the place: part-Liverpudlian, part-American, but not much of a West Country burr and no trace of the Wales he was spirited from as a kid. ‘So sad what's happened with Scottish football,’ he mourns in his soft Fife burr. In comparison, my grandfather's voice was a deep, rich Irish burr that was almost unintelligible, although it was infinitely easier to understand in person that it had ever been over the phone. 2A rough edge or ridge left on an object (especially of metal) by the action of a tool or machine. Example sentencesExamples The tooling includes a deburring operation in which burrs are actually pushed back into the component so that a clean edge is left on the part. His dad, Peter, who is a plumber, said: ‘We tried releasing the tube with soap but it had burrs on it from being cut.’ Use a metal file to remove any burrs and to dull the sharp cut edges. It slices through any material (including six inches of titanium) without leaving any burrs, or rough edges. The company's blasting capabilities can be used to achieve specific surface roughness or to affect surface hardness of parts and in some applications reduce or remove burrs. This involved removing all the rough edges and casting burrs so there were no sharp edges. After tooling, cut off mortar tailings with trowel and brush excess mortar burrs and dust from face of brick. Sharpen only the beveled side of a blade, though you should remove burrs on the flat side. At a minimum, sand down the area to remove any roughness or burrs, and touch it up with paint. I tried suggesting he tape over the burr or maybe file it down but he stubbornly insisted that it was fine, cursing under his breath the whole time he cranked the mill. On the plastic it will enter readily and throw up a burr at the edges of the hole. In engraving, fine lines are incised directly into the plate and the burrs removed to produce clean, sharp lines on the print. Apparently the parachute type pin had too sharp edges or maybe a little burr. When you complete the cut, file off any burrs and install it. The rifling for the entire length of the tube must be smooth and free of burrs and scars. When working with it, you will want to wear gloves and other appropriate clothing to protect yourself from sharp edges and corners, and from the slivers and burrs left from cutting. Take the burrs off the cuts with a pocket knife or sandpaper or fingernail file. The threads for the bottom bracket were cut precisely with no slag or burs. When done, give the wall a light sanding to knock down any burrs or ridges. The cutters can be produced with high positive rakes, which contribute to smooth surfaces and reduced burrs. 3A small rotary cutting tool with a shaped end, used chiefly in woodworking and dentistry. Example sentencesExamples He or she then uses the shaver burr to reshape the head/neck junction to restore normal head/neck offset, which eliminates impingement. The assistant smooths irregular edges with a motorized burr. To remove soil-derived particulates on the tooth surface, all enamel surfaces were abraded to a depth >100 [mu] m with acid-cleaned, tungsten carbide dental burrs. For example, the use of dental burrs creates a fine aerosol spray that can carry bacteria, etc. Long a favourite of jewellers and metalworkers, diamond burrs are now being discovered by woodworkers, woodturners and woodcarvers. Inside, the wood in the burr is winding round and round itself giving a magnificent complex surface. The burr, connected to a drive shaft and a turbine powered by compressed air, rotates at speeds up to 200 000 rpm Most important, it's a burr rather than a blade grinder. The dissector incorporates an electrically powered handpiece and single-use, disposable cutting blades and burrs. 3.1 A small surgical drill for making holes in bone, especially in the skull. Example sentencesExamples We note that the brighter signal from the center of the tumor may be partly due to reduced attenuation of the light through the burr hole. That's one group but the other group had the burr holes made in their skull but they didn't actually have the cells put in their brain. The needle was slowly retracted, the burr hole left open and the skin sutured closed. The greatest opportunity for cost savings is found in reprocessing critical devices, such as diagnostic cardiac catheters, forceps, and orthopedic burrs. This can be performed with either an osteotome or a spherical motorized burr. The surgeon uses a motorized 5-mm round burr to expose bleeding bone from the endplates of the vertebral bodies on either side of the disc space to prepare the space for the bone graft. Using a suction/shaver with a round or an oval-shaped burr, the surgeon resects bone along the inner aspect of the lateral femoral condyle. The surgeon completes the notchplasty with a spherical motorized arthroscopic burr until the posterior edge of the femur is identified and probed. Arthroscopic surgery is often performed to take out inflamed bursal tissue and create more room for the rotator-cuff tendons by using a burr to remove some of the underside of the acromion bone. The first was an emergency suturing of her scalp lacerations and insertion of an intra cranial pressure monitor through a burr hole. The surgeon makes a 6-cm incision and uses a 5.0 mm round cutting burr to drill the burr hole. The devices named include disposable arthroscopic surgery blades and burrs, non-electric biopsy forceps, ureteral stone dislodgers, and sagittal saw blades. The surgeon creates an internal subcutaneous area for the distal end of the DBS lead, lateral to the burr hole defect, so that it can be retrieved easily when the pulse generator is implanted. Instruments include a sharp periosteal elevator without tip burrs and fine needle holders for 6-0 suture. This infusion is not stopped until the burr hole is drilled and the surgeon is ready to begin microelectrode recording. A further development was to use a brace and bit to ream out (as bone dust) burr holes about 1 cm in diameter. It was removed via a burr hole, and he made a full recovery. This allows the surgeon to perform surgery through a small burr hole. 4mass noun A siliceous rock used for millstones. Example sentencesExamples The miller knows that there should be a difference in the dress for hulling stones, splitting or cracking stones, wheat stones, middlings stones and vertical burr stones. Mervin Austin mills his own flour using French burr stones and Derbyshire peak stones. The urban manufacturers in Edinburgh and Glasgow usually made up their millstones from a centre-piece of indigenous rock with radial French burr segments around it. The best and most popular stone ever discovered for grinding wheat into white flour is the French Burr. 4.1count noun A whetstone. Example sentencesExamples These stones became the first burrs for grist mills. 5A prickly seed case or flower head that clings to clothing and animal fur. Example sentencesExamples We always get through these rough patches, but let's face it, no one ever likes sitting in a patch of grass burrs at the time no matter how funny the story may be later. Memories are made of this; they cling to objects and places like burrs to a sleeve. The area is a mess of dead grass, burrs and broken glass. Good-looking and backed by a healthy trust fund, he buzzes around from store to store, hot spot to hot spot, picking up women like burrs. The accompaniment is an ostinato that sticks to the memory like a burr and becomes hypnotic. It produces one inch long bur-like fruits with a single seed in each bur. According to National Park Service biologists, the burrs act like Velcro. We have to chance getting stickers in our tongue, if we want to get the burrs out of our feet. Wherever one grows up, there are local names that infiltrate our consciousness, get stuck in our memories like burrs snagged on a sock. He worked to make a synthetic material that duplicated the burs clinging to his wool socks. There were burrs in its coat and when it rolled over on the lane, wiggling in ecstasy to have its belly rubbed, we could tell that it was a male. Trees of these varieties produce only a single, large nut in each burr (nut-case) instead of several small ones. The plant must be eliminated before the flowers ripen and form the brown prickly burrs which spread the seeds. Ferns brushed her ankles and burs snagged her skirt as she stumbled along compulsively. All right, so once you got the burrs out and started writing down, what were you able to say in your story about this wonderful event? These plants are at their maximum stage of maturity and contain little leaf material in proportion to burs and stems. His clothes were smudged with grass and mud, his hands covered in small burr scratches and dirt. He had a bunch of burrs in his mane, but I left them alone. She shook the twigs, burs, and dead leaves off of her skirt, and smoothed her bodice. I watch out for the grass burrs and the fire ants with studied vigilance, but after years of living in Texas and just casually surveying such wildflower patches, I'm really looking at them for the first time. 5.1usually as modifier A plant that produces burrs, for example bur reed. Example sentencesExamples With droughts, rust, rabbits, Bathurst burr, locusts, low wheat and wool prices and a depression his parents had to struggle to provide for their large family. Flora and fauna are often named after established and now familiar places: Bathurst burr, Burdekin duck, Moreton Bay fig, Murray cod, and Swan River mahogany. He did general farm work fencing and grubbing bathhurst burr. Spot the walnut tree, toss the multi-hooked seed heads of the burr plants, help these path dwellers hitch a fleecy ride. On show in the gallery is a striking coffee table fashioned from an elm burr found in a Tipperary wood. When we got here the nettles and sticky burrs had grown very high. 6as modifier Denoting wood containing knots or other growths which show a pattern of dense swirls in the grain when sawn, used for veneers and other decorative woodwork. burr walnut Example sentencesExamples Made out of a combination of European burr walnut, India rosewood and ripple sycamore, it took more than 200 hours of production manager Tim Smith's time to create. I have nine pieces in the exhibition - a new body of work in Scottish hardwoods including ash and burr elm. As life decisions go, it's a lot tougher than choosing between the traditional burr walnut and the gray-stained maple veneer for the interior of his Jaguar. The elegantly crafted table is constructed in English walnut with inlays of burr elm and satinwood stringing. The interior is elegantly styled with three circular displays of crisp, clear graphics and broad burr walnut moulding. While he prefers to work with solid woods such as native oak, cherry, walnut and cedar, he also frequently uses some speciality veneers and inlays including masur birch, bird's eye maple and oak burr. Working on a rosewood corner cupboard veneered in burr walnut, and featuring an inlaid marquetry honeysuckle design, will always remain one of Luke's favourite jobs. The pieces should be sturdy, worm-free and consider just how will you clean up the mess if you send a slop of beef gravy down that gorgeous burr walnut façade? On these cars, this comes in the form of customised alloy wheels and special paint ranges, as well a host of specification upgrades, including Java leather, burr walnut or maple wood trims. Mostly here it is pines but there were some maples and the understory verge was thistle and burr shoulder to shoulder with thistle-like knapweed. For the work-minded bosses, there are burr walnut-finished business trays that fold down from the front seat-backs and are big enough to hold a notebook computer. 7The coronet of a deer's antler. Example sentencesExamples I signed this piece by carving my initials and 07 on the back of the burr. This tie is done on a prairie find sun-bleached mule deer shed antler burr. I augmented the color of the burr with my own dye technique. To make a comb the craftsman first cut off the tines or points and the burr (the swelling where the antler joined the skull) leaving just the beam (main part of the antler). verb bəːbər 1no object Make a whirring sound. Example sentencesExamples First one brightly colored lorikeet burred past Zack's head, then another and another, until at least nine or ten birds were perched on the rail above the zookeeper's head. At this point, I make a burring noise and replace the receiver. The electric bell burred softly again through the house, and the man heard it, and his eyes rested enquiringly on the door of the library. He stood straight up, peered at some clouds, and made a long wailing call, rounded off by some burring notes. I hear the burring snarl of a big bike cranking up, and if the rider emerges at just the right angle, one of the wheels might break my neck. If a contraption doesn't beep or burr when he switches it on, it's just too demeaning for him even to contemplate. White gouts of water kicked up and a few pellets skipped by with burring whines. 1.1 Speak with a regional accent, especially one in which the letter r is prominent. Example sentencesExamples The Scots people are much nicer - proud, a little cold perhaps - but they were charming, with their lovely soft burring voices. They started the singing of their hymns, Newlands burring away in his boots and MacDougall slicing the words like cheese. ‘Gran… ‘Wayne burred warningly, to which Grandma Eva responded with a look of disbelief. I felt the mattress shift and her low voice burred almost in my ear. ‘There's nothing finer in this country,’ he burred. "Ye're loaded, are ye, Parcy?" asked the genial host in the burring Northumbrian voice we know so well even to-day. 2with object Form a rough edge on (metal). Example sentencesExamples I hit my first snag when I managed to burr one of the screws, which made it impossible to remove the arm at all! If you use a 24-tooth blade, which is what is needed for thin metal, there will be very little burring of the edge. Phrases a burr under someone's saddle informal A persistent source of irritation. Example sentencesExamples ‘He has a burr under his saddle,’ I said and the boy turned around, startled. Ron Sider has been a burr in the ethical saddle of the evangelical world for decades. Though it would be difficult for Earnhardt to admit, Gordon was the burr in his saddle. Frankly I think the Empress was just being cranky but it irritated me all the same and the incident was still a burr under my saddle today. I am moved to write you about a book review in your last issue and a closely related subject that has long been a burr under my saddle. Origin Middle English (in sense 5 of the noun): probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Danish burre 'burr, burdock', Swedish kard-borre 'burdock'. Rhymes à deux, agent provocateur, astir, auteur, aver, bestir, blur, bon viveur, Chandigarh, coiffeur, concur, confer, connoisseur, cordon-bleu, cri de cœur, cur, danseur, Darfur, defer, demur, de rigueur, deter, entrepreneur, er, err, farceur, faute de mieux, fir, flâneur, Fleur, force majeure, fur, hauteur, her, infer, inter, jongleur, Kerr, littérateur, longueur, masseur, Monseigneur, monsieur, Montesquieu, Montreux, murre, myrrh, occur, pas de deux, Pasteur, per, pisteur, poseur, pot-au-feu, prefer, prie-dieu, pudeur, purr, raconteur, rapporteur, refer, répétiteur, restaurateur, saboteur, sabreur, seigneur, Sher, shirr, sir, skirr, slur, souteneur, spur, stir, tant mieux, transfer, Ur, vieux jeu, voyageur, voyeur, were, whirr noun.1 phr. Definition of burr in US English: burr nounbərbər 1A whirring sound, such as a telephone ringing tone or the sound of cogs turning. Example sentencesExamples It consists of hums and burrs and the shush of compressed air engaging and disengaging continually. A heartbeat, a voice, and a burr of conscience I continue to gratefully hear. We made do with the pips on digital Radio 2, and the engaged burr of mobiles as the servers overflowed. Synonyms note, beep, bleep, meep, whine, buzz, warble, signal 1.1in singular A rough sounding of the sound r, especially with a uvular trill (a “French r”) as in certain Northern England accents. Example sentencesExamples The Scotch-Irish are unlikely to share speech patterns and the characteristic burr (a distinctive trilled ‘r’) with the Scots. Clune delivers the line with a soft West Country burr and adds, ‘That's what I'm going to call my show: Boy Crazy.’ The best way I know of to learn a uvular trill, sometimes called a 'burr', is by practicing gargling. That genial smile, the fisherman's countenance, the soft burr - George Baker could only come from the West Country. Amongst the crowd, whether on or off horses, the old fashioned accents of the gentry were mingled with the softer burr of the yeoman farmers and the downright rusticity of the less well-off. Northumbrian English is somewhat famous for the Northumbrian burr, a rhotic realized as a uvular fricative (or approximant). Yes, it's the West Country burr which makes that rrrrrr sound. Scots may lose their regional ties in becoming New Zealanders, and the accent softens or disappears apart from the Southland burr. Synonyms pronunciation, intonation, enunciation, elocution, articulation, inflection, tone, modulation, cadence, timbre, utterance, manner of speaking, speech pattern, speech, diction, delivery 1.2 (loosely) a regional accent. a soft Scottish burr Example sentencesExamples His Hampshire burr was synonymous with lazy summer days and the sound of leather on willow, and it is almost impossible to believe that his last commentary was the 1980 Centenary Test at Lord's. By the time she was 35, she still looked as if she was in her twenties, red-haired, slim and feisty, with a marked Scottish burr and a surfeit of sex appeal. Linguistic idiosyncrasies which had previously distinguished Stanningley-speak from a Bingley burr would be consigned to history. The man spoke in a soft American burr, almost without a pause. Cope's accent is all over the place: part-Liverpudlian, part-American, but not much of a West Country burr and no trace of the Wales he was spirited from as a kid. ‘The information I have will be devastating for the Telegraph,’ he insists in his deep Scottish burr. ‘So sad what's happened with Scottish football,’ he mourns in his soft Fife burr. ‘The walls in York are more museums,’ he says, in a soft Dublin accent that's overlaid by a Cheshire burr. She says the Scottish burr just melts her away and she recalls a long-forgotten trip to Edinburgh just after the war. Victor could only laugh as Quentin's Scottish burr came out more pronounced at the end of his speech. In comparison, my grandfather's voice was a deep, rich Irish burr that was almost unintelligible, although it was infinitely easier to understand in person that it had ever been over the phone. A keen huntsman, Briggs, immediately turned his Lancashire burr to the topic of fox hunting. He's the fearless interlocutor with a Yorkshire burr; ladies and gentlemen, please welcome: Michael Parkinson! They can tell that I am from the same mould as James Bond but without the Celtic burr. He stopped in front of R., leaned down and said to her, in a thick Scots burr, ‘Happy holidays.’ Armed with a Scottish burr but scant design experience, his vision was to build an authentic links in America, something akin to an 1880s course, but done with modern equipment. Now, he says in his soft Scots burr, he doesn't know what sort of accent he has. His voice was soft but had a slight Scottish burr to it. Wemyss now speaks mostly fluent English, heavily accented but with a Scottish burr breaking through when she is relaxed. 2A rough edge or ridge left on an object (especially of metal) by the action of a tool or machine. Example sentencesExamples When you complete the cut, file off any burrs and install it. At a minimum, sand down the area to remove any roughness or burrs, and touch it up with paint. This involved removing all the rough edges and casting burrs so there were no sharp edges. It slices through any material (including six inches of titanium) without leaving any burrs, or rough edges. The threads for the bottom bracket were cut precisely with no slag or burs. Sharpen only the beveled side of a blade, though you should remove burrs on the flat side. Take the burrs off the cuts with a pocket knife or sandpaper or fingernail file. Apparently the parachute type pin had too sharp edges or maybe a little burr. The tooling includes a deburring operation in which burrs are actually pushed back into the component so that a clean edge is left on the part. When working with it, you will want to wear gloves and other appropriate clothing to protect yourself from sharp edges and corners, and from the slivers and burrs left from cutting. Use a metal file to remove any burrs and to dull the sharp cut edges. The rifling for the entire length of the tube must be smooth and free of burrs and scars. After tooling, cut off mortar tailings with trowel and brush excess mortar burrs and dust from face of brick. The cutters can be produced with high positive rakes, which contribute to smooth surfaces and reduced burrs. His dad, Peter, who is a plumber, said: ‘We tried releasing the tube with soap but it had burrs on it from being cut.’ I tried suggesting he tape over the burr or maybe file it down but he stubbornly insisted that it was fine, cursing under his breath the whole time he cranked the mill. When done, give the wall a light sanding to knock down any burrs or ridges. The company's blasting capabilities can be used to achieve specific surface roughness or to affect surface hardness of parts and in some applications reduce or remove burrs. On the plastic it will enter readily and throw up a burr at the edges of the hole. In engraving, fine lines are incised directly into the plate and the burrs removed to produce clean, sharp lines on the print. 3A small rotary cutting tool with a shaped end, used chiefly in woodworking and dentistry. Example sentencesExamples Inside, the wood in the burr is winding round and round itself giving a magnificent complex surface. He or she then uses the shaver burr to reshape the head/neck junction to restore normal head/neck offset, which eliminates impingement. Long a favourite of jewellers and metalworkers, diamond burrs are now being discovered by woodworkers, woodturners and woodcarvers. The burr, connected to a drive shaft and a turbine powered by compressed air, rotates at speeds up to 200 000 rpm Most important, it's a burr rather than a blade grinder. To remove soil-derived particulates on the tooth surface, all enamel surfaces were abraded to a depth >100 [mu] m with acid-cleaned, tungsten carbide dental burrs. The assistant smooths irregular edges with a motorized burr. The dissector incorporates an electrically powered handpiece and single-use, disposable cutting blades and burrs. For example, the use of dental burrs creates a fine aerosol spray that can carry bacteria, etc. 3.1 A small surgical drill for making holes in bone, especially in the skull. Example sentencesExamples The first was an emergency suturing of her scalp lacerations and insertion of an intra cranial pressure monitor through a burr hole. The surgeon uses a motorized 5-mm round burr to expose bleeding bone from the endplates of the vertebral bodies on either side of the disc space to prepare the space for the bone graft. The needle was slowly retracted, the burr hole left open and the skin sutured closed. Instruments include a sharp periosteal elevator without tip burrs and fine needle holders for 6-0 suture. It was removed via a burr hole, and he made a full recovery. A further development was to use a brace and bit to ream out (as bone dust) burr holes about 1 cm in diameter. That's one group but the other group had the burr holes made in their skull but they didn't actually have the cells put in their brain. We note that the brighter signal from the center of the tumor may be partly due to reduced attenuation of the light through the burr hole. Arthroscopic surgery is often performed to take out inflamed bursal tissue and create more room for the rotator-cuff tendons by using a burr to remove some of the underside of the acromion bone. This infusion is not stopped until the burr hole is drilled and the surgeon is ready to begin microelectrode recording. The surgeon makes a 6-cm incision and uses a 5.0 mm round cutting burr to drill the burr hole. The greatest opportunity for cost savings is found in reprocessing critical devices, such as diagnostic cardiac catheters, forceps, and orthopedic burrs. The surgeon completes the notchplasty with a spherical motorized arthroscopic burr until the posterior edge of the femur is identified and probed. The devices named include disposable arthroscopic surgery blades and burrs, non-electric biopsy forceps, ureteral stone dislodgers, and sagittal saw blades. This allows the surgeon to perform surgery through a small burr hole. The surgeon creates an internal subcutaneous area for the distal end of the DBS lead, lateral to the burr hole defect, so that it can be retrieved easily when the pulse generator is implanted. This can be performed with either an osteotome or a spherical motorized burr. Using a suction/shaver with a round or an oval-shaped burr, the surgeon resects bone along the inner aspect of the lateral femoral condyle. 4A type of siliceous rock used for millstones. Example sentencesExamples Mervin Austin mills his own flour using French burr stones and Derbyshire peak stones. The best and most popular stone ever discovered for grinding wheat into white flour is the French Burr. The urban manufacturers in Edinburgh and Glasgow usually made up their millstones from a centre-piece of indigenous rock with radial French burr segments around it. The miller knows that there should be a difference in the dress for hulling stones, splitting or cracking stones, wheat stones, middlings stones and vertical burr stones. 4.1 A whetstone. Example sentencesExamples These stones became the first burrs for grist mills. 5A prickly seed case or flower head that clings to clothing and animal fur. Example sentencesExamples Ferns brushed her ankles and burs snagged her skirt as she stumbled along compulsively. It produces one inch long bur-like fruits with a single seed in each bur. The area is a mess of dead grass, burrs and broken glass. He had a bunch of burrs in his mane, but I left them alone. Memories are made of this; they cling to objects and places like burrs to a sleeve. Wherever one grows up, there are local names that infiltrate our consciousness, get stuck in our memories like burrs snagged on a sock. All right, so once you got the burrs out and started writing down, what were you able to say in your story about this wonderful event? His clothes were smudged with grass and mud, his hands covered in small burr scratches and dirt. Trees of these varieties produce only a single, large nut in each burr (nut-case) instead of several small ones. We have to chance getting stickers in our tongue, if we want to get the burrs out of our feet. According to National Park Service biologists, the burrs act like Velcro. Good-looking and backed by a healthy trust fund, he buzzes around from store to store, hot spot to hot spot, picking up women like burrs. She shook the twigs, burs, and dead leaves off of her skirt, and smoothed her bodice. I watch out for the grass burrs and the fire ants with studied vigilance, but after years of living in Texas and just casually surveying such wildflower patches, I'm really looking at them for the first time. The plant must be eliminated before the flowers ripen and form the brown prickly burrs which spread the seeds. These plants are at their maximum stage of maturity and contain little leaf material in proportion to burs and stems. He worked to make a synthetic material that duplicated the burs clinging to his wool socks. There were burrs in its coat and when it rolled over on the lane, wiggling in ecstasy to have its belly rubbed, we could tell that it was a male. We always get through these rough patches, but let's face it, no one ever likes sitting in a patch of grass burrs at the time no matter how funny the story may be later. The accompaniment is an ostinato that sticks to the memory like a burr and becomes hypnotic. 5.1usually as modifier A plant that produces burrs, for example bur reed. Example sentencesExamples When we got here the nettles and sticky burrs had grown very high. Spot the walnut tree, toss the multi-hooked seed heads of the burr plants, help these path dwellers hitch a fleecy ride. Flora and fauna are often named after established and now familiar places: Bathurst burr, Burdekin duck, Moreton Bay fig, Murray cod, and Swan River mahogany. On show in the gallery is a striking coffee table fashioned from an elm burr found in a Tipperary wood. He did general farm work fencing and grubbing bathhurst burr. With droughts, rust, rabbits, Bathurst burr, locusts, low wheat and wool prices and a depression his parents had to struggle to provide for their large family. 6as modifier Denoting wood containing knots or other growths which show a pattern of dense swirls in the grain when sawn, used for veneers and other decorative woodwork. burr walnut Example sentencesExamples On these cars, this comes in the form of customised alloy wheels and special paint ranges, as well a host of specification upgrades, including Java leather, burr walnut or maple wood trims. Made out of a combination of European burr walnut, India rosewood and ripple sycamore, it took more than 200 hours of production manager Tim Smith's time to create. The pieces should be sturdy, worm-free and consider just how will you clean up the mess if you send a slop of beef gravy down that gorgeous burr walnut façade? The elegantly crafted table is constructed in English walnut with inlays of burr elm and satinwood stringing. The interior is elegantly styled with three circular displays of crisp, clear graphics and broad burr walnut moulding. Mostly here it is pines but there were some maples and the understory verge was thistle and burr shoulder to shoulder with thistle-like knapweed. I have nine pieces in the exhibition - a new body of work in Scottish hardwoods including ash and burr elm. While he prefers to work with solid woods such as native oak, cherry, walnut and cedar, he also frequently uses some speciality veneers and inlays including masur birch, bird's eye maple and oak burr. As life decisions go, it's a lot tougher than choosing between the traditional burr walnut and the gray-stained maple veneer for the interior of his Jaguar. For the work-minded bosses, there are burr walnut-finished business trays that fold down from the front seat-backs and are big enough to hold a notebook computer. Working on a rosewood corner cupboard veneered in burr walnut, and featuring an inlaid marquetry honeysuckle design, will always remain one of Luke's favourite jobs. 7A ring of bone at the base of a deer's antler. Also called coronet Example sentencesExamples To make a comb the craftsman first cut off the tines or points and the burr (the swelling where the antler joined the skull) leaving just the beam (main part of the antler). I signed this piece by carving my initials and 07 on the back of the burr. This tie is done on a prairie find sun-bleached mule deer shed antler burr. I augmented the color of the burr with my own dye technique. verbbərbər 1no object Make a whirring sound. Example sentencesExamples The electric bell burred softly again through the house, and the man heard it, and his eyes rested enquiringly on the door of the library. White gouts of water kicked up and a few pellets skipped by with burring whines. I hear the burring snarl of a big bike cranking up, and if the rider emerges at just the right angle, one of the wheels might break my neck. First one brightly colored lorikeet burred past Zack's head, then another and another, until at least nine or ten birds were perched on the rail above the zookeeper's head. At this point, I make a burring noise and replace the receiver. If a contraption doesn't beep or burr when he switches it on, it's just too demeaning for him even to contemplate. He stood straight up, peered at some clouds, and made a long wailing call, rounded off by some burring notes. 1.1 Speak with an accent in which the sound r is trilled. with direct speech “I like to have a purrrpose,” she burrs Example sentencesExamples "Ye're loaded, are ye, Parcy?" asked the genial host in the burring Northumbrian voice we know so well even to-day. The Scots people are much nicer - proud, a little cold perhaps - but they were charming, with their lovely soft burring voices. They started the singing of their hymns, Newlands burring away in his boots and MacDougall slicing the words like cheese. I felt the mattress shift and her low voice burred almost in my ear. ‘There's nothing finer in this country,’ he burred. ‘Gran… ‘Wayne burred warningly, to which Grandma Eva responded with a look of disbelief. 2with object Form a rough edge on (metal) the handles were fixed by rivets burred over on the shield's front Example sentencesExamples If you use a 24-tooth blade, which is what is needed for thin metal, there will be very little burring of the edge. I hit my first snag when I managed to burr one of the screws, which made it impossible to remove the arm at all! Phrases a burr under one's saddle informal A persistent source of irritation. he had been a burr under the saddle of the government in his time Example sentencesExamples I am moved to write you about a book review in your last issue and a closely related subject that has long been a burr under my saddle. ‘He has a burr under his saddle,’ I said and the boy turned around, startled. Frankly I think the Empress was just being cranky but it irritated me all the same and the incident was still a burr under my saddle today. Though it would be difficult for Earnhardt to admit, Gordon was the burr in his saddle. Ron Sider has been a burr in the ethical saddle of the evangelical world for decades. Origin Middle English (in burr (sense 5 of the noun)): probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Danish burre ‘burr, burdock’, Swedish kard-borre ‘burdock’. noun.1 phr.
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