A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the ot…
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the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
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a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word; "‘NATO’ is an initialism for North…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; an/ passion of affection that binds a p…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can no…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.of Blend
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation, Prosody, Poetry.The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.of Combine
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.of Compound
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.of Derive
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speake…
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation, Prosody.the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation, Prosody, Poetry.(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
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Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: continuation, syntactic, unit, line, verse.The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: continuation, syntactic, unit, line, verse.Alt. of Ampere
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: continuation, syntactic, unit, line, verse.an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: continuation, syntactic, unit, line, verse.A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter pa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: continuation, syntactic, unit, line, verse.Attack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: continuation, syntactic, unit, line, verse.An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the centim…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: continuation, syntactic, unit, line, verse.The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, on…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: continuation, syntactic, unit, line, verse.To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: continuation, syntactic, unit, line, verse.Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the uni…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: continuation, syntactic, unit, line, verse.Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: continuation, syntactic, unit, line, verse.A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth al…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: continuation, syntactic, unit, line, verse.A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, "dare classibus austros," t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: continuation, syntactic, unit, line, verse.A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: continuation, syntactic, unit, line, verse.Explore Academic Dictionary
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