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Meanings of syllabic in inglés
(Of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllable.
Related terms
(Of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities.
Usage of syllabic in inglés
1
The vast bulk of successful English verse is, as we know, accentual-syllabic.
2
The syllabic count starts at one and increases until it reaches nine.
3
Her style of scrupulous, visually arresting syllabic verse has been highly influential.
4
Now, I already knew something of the Cree syllabic invented by the Rev.
5
Variously repeated and grouped, these marks make up the syllabic characters.
6
It is syllabic, of eighty-five characters, and is used for printing.
7
There are nearly two hundred syllabic signs, much alike and easy to confuse.
8
That means that old Latin was spoken like English is, with syllabic accent.
9
Thus came alphabetical writing, syllabic writing, verbal writing, into the world.
10
He fills the air with vocal bullets and syllabic shrapnel.
11
Women have an art of expressing contempt by syllabic emphasis that men never acquire.
12
And this grunt, more than could possibly be conveyed by syllabic utterance, expresses impatience.
13
The laugh was repeated in its low, syllabic tone, and terminated in an odd murmur.
14
I do not know what syllabic verse is, can find no appropriate application for it.
15
Rhyme was unknown to the Greeks, the music of whose verse came from syllabic quantity.
16
Not one person in that audience except my boatmen, knew a letter or syllabic character.
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