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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the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements; "the rhythm of Frost's poetry"
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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.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.
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use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "initial rhyme such as ‘around the rock the r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, spoken, words, alternating, stressed.A peculiar gait of a horse, in which both legs on the same side are moved at the same time, alternating with the legs on the other sid…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, spoken, words, alternating, stressed.a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., ‘remember’)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, spoken, words, alternating, stressed.a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, spoken, words, alternating, stressed.a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, spoken, words, alternating, stressed.Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, spoken, words, alternating, stressed.use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "initial rhyme such as ‘around the rock the r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, spoken, words, alternating, stressed.Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken English; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, spoken, words, alternating, stressed.nightingale spoken of in Persian poetry
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, spoken, words, alternating, stressed.A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantati…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, spoken, words, alternating, stressed.The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, spoken, words, alternating, stressed.a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, spoken, words, alternating, stressed.To represent by words written or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, spoken, words, alternating, stressed.A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of g…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: arrangement, spoken, words, alternating, stressed.
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