| 单词 | syllable |
| 释义 | syllable (once / 602 pages) n A syllable can be made up of just a vowel — "a" can be a syllable — or a vowel and one or more consonants — "skip" is one syllable, but three sounds, or phonemes: sk-i-p. When you're figuring out how many syllables a word has, you have to listen to how it's pronounced, not look at the spelling. Household is two syllables — which you'll hear when you say the word — even though it's got four vowels. Elephant is three syllables, and hippopotamus is five. You can also use syllable for the tiniest bits of language: "I loved every syllable of your speech," or "Please don't repeat a syllable of what I told you." WORD FAMILYsyllable: syllabicate, syllabify, syllabise, syllabize, syllables+/syllabicate: syllabication/syllabify: syllabification, syllabifying/syllabise: syllabised, syllabises, syllabising/syllabize: syllabized, syllabizing USAGE EXAMPLESThe first part of this word will look to many English speakers without any Korean like the first syllable of the word “gangster.” Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Say it aloud or listen: in Latin, eight syllables, alternating short and long. The New Yorker(Dec 11, 2016) Four levels of “spiciness” are on offer — keeping in mind that in the portmanteau Chinese word mala, only the second syllable refers to heat. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) n a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme the word `pocket' has two syllables Hypo|Hyper ultima the last syllable in a word penult, penultima, penultimatethe next to last syllable in a word antepenult, antepenultima, antepenultimatethe 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end reduplicationthe syllable added in a reduplicated word form solfa syllableone of the names for notes of a musical scale in solmization do, doh, utthe syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization ray, rethe syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization mithe syllable naming the third (mediant) note of any major scale in solmization fathe syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization so, soh, solthe syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization la, lahthe syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization si, te, tithe syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization language unit, linguistic unit one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed |
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