A bur is a small seed pod or fruit with hooks or spines. It can stick to clothes or animal hair easily when touched.
The bur stuck to my jacket after walking.
She pulled a bur from the dog’s fur.
In metalwork or carpentry, a bur is a sharp or rough edge left after cutting. It must be smoothed for safety and function.
Please remove the bur from the metal sheet.
The bur made the knife unsafe to use.
A bur is a small rotary cutting tool, often used in dentistry or metalworking. It helps to drill, grind, or shape materials.
The dentist used a bur to clean my tooth.
He changed the bur on his drill for the job.
As a verb, to bur means to remove rough edges from a surface. This helps make tools or products safer and cleaner.
The worker burred the metal edges carefully.
You must bur the wood after cutting it.
In some informal uses, bur means to burp or make a burping sound. This is a normal body action to release air from the stomach.
He burred loudly after eating fast.
Babies often bur after drinking milk.
BUR is a technical abbreviation in telecom for a busy or unavailable response. It indicates a failed or busy connection.
The call failed due to a bur on the line.
Network showed a bur during connection time.
Bur is sometimes used as a last name or place name in English. It does not have a specific meaning in this use.
Mr. Bur is a well-known professor here.
The town of Bur is small and quiet.
