单词 | syncopate |
释义 | syncopatev. 1. Grammar. transitive. To cut short or contract (a word) by omitting one or more syllables or letters in the middle; also passive to be produced by syncopation. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > form words [verb (transitive)] > contract or abbreviate clip1526 curtail1553 abbreviate1598 contract1605 syncopate1605 syncopize1643 bobtaila1680 elide1831 apocopate1845 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 130 The tyran Time which hath swallowed many names, hath also in vse of speach, changed more by contracting, syncopating, curtelling, and mollifying them. 1848 W. Veitch Irreg. Greek Verbs at θνήσκω It is said that τεθνεώς is never syncopated τεθνώς. 1857 Jos. Currie Notes to Horace, Sat. i. ii. 113 Soldo is syncopated for solido. 1861 J. Hadley Greek Gram. (1884) 47 Δημήτηρ..syncopates all the oblique cases. 2. Music. a. transitive. To begin (a note) on an unaccented part of the bar and sustain it into the accented part; to introduce syncopation into (a passage). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [verb (transitive)] > syncopate odd1597 syncope1728 syncopate1776 1667 C. Simpson Compend. Pract. Musick 156 Of Syncopated or Driving Canon. 1752 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) at Syncopation In syncopated or driving notes, the hand or foot is taken up, or put down, while the note is sounding.] 1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 103 [It] disturbs the metre, and syncopates the music. b. intransitive. To be marked by syncopation. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [verb (intransitive)] > be syncopated syncope1737 syncopate1797 1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 538 (note) When the treble syncopates in descending diatonically. 3. figurative and transferred or allusively. ΚΠ 1904 D. Blackburn Richard Hartley ii. 17 A succession of shrill yells, and oaths.., syncopated by the swish of the sjambok. 1908 ‘I. Hay’ Right Stuff xi A retired Admiral.., whose forty years' official connection with Britannia's realm betrayed itself in a nautical roll, syncopated by gout. 1928 Sunday Express 27 May 15 Her eager feet, that used to patter back and forth in happy household duties, now syncopate to the beat of drums and the clashing of cymbals. 1966 Listener 28 July 142/3 At the back of Albéniz's mind there is generally..a dancer whose castanets are always syncopating against each other. 1983 P. Inchbald Short Break in Venice xx. 190 They passed a lighthouse syncopating white above with green below. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.1605 |
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