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PUR

PUR

1 8.6
A plastic material used to make foam, glue, and shoe soles
  • noun
  • /pʌr/
  • Specialized
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  • We actually use the PUR filters in our fridge, which just started coming with a sweet old calendar sticker that says if you bought this month, change this month.

Examples

  • You forgot your pur...

  • Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Pur Couture number one.

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  • Color Purple, Purple Rose of Cairo, Purple Rain, Pur...

  • What Chris KL-99 did was a clusterfsck pur sang, but the mods dealt admirably well with it.

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  • Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Pur Couture Glossy Stain

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  • That's the space vehicle which orbited Venus and then pur -- was purposefully destroyed by NASA when scientists discovered it was carrying a mysterious high-level radiation.

  • The sheer increase in the volume of information provided in the Diccionario has been so steep that we shall be forced to confine ourselves for a while to the branch, or subfamily, apurar, disregarding any other ramifications of pur.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Manufacturers often prefer to use PUR for its durability when creating high-quality adhesives.

  • The furniture was coated with PUR to enhance its water resistance and lifespan.

  • Many modern paints incorporate PUR to provide better adhesion and flexibility.

Synonyms

polyurethane
vsPUR
  • Specialized
12 7.0

A man-made material used to make foams, glues, paints, and plastics

is the general name for this synthetic material family
PU
vsPUR
  • Specialized
2 7.2

A man-made plastic called PU used to make foams, paints, and fake leather

is the formal chemical label describing that polymer family

Surface Forms

PUR singular
PURs plural

Etymology

PUR comes from polyurethane. The part poly- means 'many', and polyurethane is a kind of plastic used for foam, glue, and rubber, so PUR refers to that family of materials.