the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syl…
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Enjambment
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 of attaching or affixing something
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.a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings; "‘smog’ is a blend of ‘smoke’ and ‘fog’"; "‘motel’ is a portmant…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.the act of blending components together thoroughly
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation, Prosody, Poetry.the act of combining things to form a new whole
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.the act of combining things to form a new whole
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.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.the act of combining things to form a new whole
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syl…
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.The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the un…
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.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.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.A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its co…
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.reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in ‘her beauty's face’)
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.
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