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- English Word Syllabification Definition Same as Syllabication.
- English Word Syllabified Definition of Syllabify
- English Word Syllabify Definition To form or divide into syllables.
- English Word Syllabifying Definition of Syllabify
- English Word Syllabism Definition The expressing of the sounds of a language by syllables, rather than by an alphabet or by signs for words.
- English Word Syllabist Definition One who forms or divides words into syllables, or is skilled in doing this.
- English Word Syllabize Definition To syllabify.
- English Word Syllable Definition An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reenforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, /275.
- English Word Syllable Definition In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language.
- English Word Syllable Definition A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
- English Word Syllable Definition To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.
- English Word Syllabub Definition Same as Syllabub.
- English Word Syllabus Definition A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, and the like; an abstract.
- English Word Syllabuses Definition of Syllabus
- English Word Syllepsis Definition A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.
- English Word Syllepsis Definition The agreement of a verb or adjective with one, rather than another, of two nouns, with either of which it might agree in gender, number, etc.; as, rex et regina beati.
- English Word Sylleptic Definition Alt. of Sylleptical
- English Word Sylleptical Definition Of or pertaining to a syllepsis; containing syllepsis.
- English Word Syllidian Definition Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Syllidae.
- English Word Syllogism Definition The regular logical form of every argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the first two are called the premises, and the last, the conclusion. The conclusion necessarily follows from the premises; so that, if these are true, the conclusion must be true, and the argument amounts to demonstration
- English Word Syllogistic Definition Alt. of Syllogistical
- English Word Syllogistical Definition Of or pertaining to a syllogism; consisting of a syllogism, or of the form of reasoning by syllogisms; as, syllogistic arguments or reasoning.
- English Word Syllogistically Definition In a syllogistic manner.
- English Word Syllogization Definition A reasoning by syllogisms.
- English Word Syllogize Definition To reason by means of syllogisms.
- English Word Syllogized Definition of Syllogize
- English Word Syllogizer Definition One who syllogizes.
- English Word Syllogizing Definition of Syllogize
- English Word Sylph Definition An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.
- English Word Sylph Definition Fig.: A slender, graceful woman.