English words for 'To form or split into two syllables.'
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adj
- consisting of a syllable or syllables
- Of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
- of or relating to syllables
- (of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllable
- (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities
- consisting of or using a syllabary
- Of, or being a form of verse, based on the number of syllables in a line rather than on the arrangement of accents or quantities.
- (linguistics) Designating a sound that is or can be the most sonorant segment of a syllable, as a vowel or a resonant. In the word riddle ([ɹɪdl̩]), the two syllabic sounds are [ɪ] and [l̩].
- Pronounced with every syllable distinct.
noun
noun
adj
adj
- not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong)
- (of speech sounds) not forming or capable of forming the nucleus of a syllable
- Not syllabic.
noun
noun
- a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds
- the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together
- the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
- (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)
- An act of incurring debt; also (generally), an act of acquiring something (generally negative).
- (linguistics) A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are reduced or lost, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
- (ring theory, of an ideal in the codomain of a ring homomorphism) The preimage of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
- (biology, medicine) The process of contracting or becoming infected with a disease.
- (orthography) In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
- (biology, medicine) A stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
- (linguistics, phonology, prosody) Synonym of syncope (“the elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable”).
- (biology, medicine) A shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
- (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
- (by extension) A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
noun
adj
noun
- the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words
- an occurrence that involves the production of a union
- correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization
- a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy
- the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept
- the state of being combined into one body
- the act of fusing (or melting) together
- (physics) A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy.
- (cytology) The process by which two distinct lipid bilayers merge their hydrophobic core, resulting in one interconnected structure.
- The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
- (genetics) The result of the hybridation of two genes which originally coded for separate proteins.
- (music) A style of music that blends disparate genres; especially different types of jazz and reggae.
- A style of cooking that combines ingredients and techniques from different countries or cultures
- The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.
- (fiction) The act of two characters merging into one, typically more powerful, being; or the merged being itself.
verb
noun
- A separation of one syllable (especially a vowel which is a diphthong, that is, beginning with one sound and ending with another) into two distinct syllables; distraction.
- (orthography) The diacritical mark consisting of two dots (¨) placed over a letter (especially the second of two consecutive vowels) to indicate that it is sounded separately, usually as a distinct syllable.
- (prosody) A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot in a line of verse.
- (figurative, rare) A division, a separation.
- An occurrence of separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables without an intervening consonant; a hiatus.
- a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel
noun
- (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on (as opposed to the onset).
- Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
- White hair as an indication of old age.
- (British, regional) A cold fog or mist.
- Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
- A film or slimy coating.
- A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
- ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
- correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
verb
- (transitive, Ireland, rare) To dye (wool or yarn) reddish-brown by boiling or soaking in water with alder twigs.
- To cover (something) with rime (noun etymology 1 sense 1 or etymology 1 sense 3.1) or (loosely) hoar frost.
- To enlarge (a hole), especially using a tool such as a reamer.
- To remove debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole or a pipe) using a tool.
- (figurative) To cover (something) with a thin coating or film; to coat.
- (intransitive) Sometimes followed by up: of a thing: to become covered with rime or (loosely) hoar frost.
- compose rhymes
- be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
noun
- (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
- (informal, by extension, African-American Vernacular, hip hop, always plural) A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.
- (countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form)
- (countable, in particular) A word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
- (uncountable) Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
- (countable) A word that rhymes with another.
- (informal, African-American Vernacular, hip hop) An instance of rapping; a rapped verse; a line or couple lines of rapping; a hip hop song.
- A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
- a piece of poetry
- correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
verb
- (transitive) To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.
- (intransitive, figurative, followed by with) To somewhat resemble or correspond with.
- (intransitive, followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
- (ambitransitive) To compose or treat in verse; versify.
- (intransitive, of an utterance, text, etc.) To contain words that are pronounced identically to each other from the vowel in the stressed syllable to the end.
- (reciprocal, of two or more words) To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
- compose rhymes
- be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
verb
- (linguistics) To turn a consonant into a vowel.
- (of animals) To produce noises or calls from the throat.
- (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)
- (music) To sing without using words.
- To express with the voice, to utter.
- utter speech sounds
- pronounce as a vowel
- sing (each note a scale or in a melody) with the same vowel
- express or state clearly
- utter with vibrating vocal chords
noun
- (prosody, phonetics, sometimes uncountable) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant.
- An temporary break from work, especially one which is unexpected.
- (anatomy) An opening in an organ.
- A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
- An interruption, break, pause or absence.
- (geology) A gap in geological strata.
- a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)
- a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
verb
- (linguistics, intransitive, of a segment such as a vowel) To undergo separation of its features into distinct segments.
- (computing, transitive) To decompress (data).
- (intransitive) To empty containers that had been packed.
- (transitive) To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.
- (figurative, transitive) To analyze a concept or a text; to explain.
- remove from its packing
noun
adj
noun
- a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds
- the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together
- the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
- (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)
- An act of incurring debt; also (generally), an act of acquiring something (generally negative).
- (linguistics) A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are reduced or lost, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
- (ring theory, of an ideal in the codomain of a ring homomorphism) The preimage of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
- (biology, medicine) The process of contracting or becoming infected with a disease.
- (orthography) In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
- (biology, medicine) A stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
- (linguistics, phonology, prosody) Synonym of syncope (“the elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable”).
- (biology, medicine) A shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
- (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
- (by extension) A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
noun
adj
noun
- the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words
- an occurrence that involves the production of a union
- correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization
- a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy
- the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept
- the state of being combined into one body
- the act of fusing (or melting) together
- (physics) A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy.
- (cytology) The process by which two distinct lipid bilayers merge their hydrophobic core, resulting in one interconnected structure.
- The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
- (genetics) The result of the hybridation of two genes which originally coded for separate proteins.
- (music) A style of music that blends disparate genres; especially different types of jazz and reggae.
- A style of cooking that combines ingredients and techniques from different countries or cultures
- The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.
- (fiction) The act of two characters merging into one, typically more powerful, being; or the merged being itself.
verb
noun
- A separation of one syllable (especially a vowel which is a diphthong, that is, beginning with one sound and ending with another) into two distinct syllables; distraction.
- (orthography) The diacritical mark consisting of two dots (¨) placed over a letter (especially the second of two consecutive vowels) to indicate that it is sounded separately, usually as a distinct syllable.
- (prosody) A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot in a line of verse.
- (figurative, rare) A division, a separation.
- An occurrence of separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables without an intervening consonant; a hiatus.
- a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel
noun
- (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on (as opposed to the onset).
- Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
- White hair as an indication of old age.
- (British, regional) A cold fog or mist.
- Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
- A film or slimy coating.
- A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
- ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
- correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
verb
- (transitive, Ireland, rare) To dye (wool or yarn) reddish-brown by boiling or soaking in water with alder twigs.
- To cover (something) with rime (noun etymology 1 sense 1 or etymology 1 sense 3.1) or (loosely) hoar frost.
- To enlarge (a hole), especially using a tool such as a reamer.
- To remove debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole or a pipe) using a tool.
- (figurative) To cover (something) with a thin coating or film; to coat.
- (intransitive) Sometimes followed by up: of a thing: to become covered with rime or (loosely) hoar frost.
- compose rhymes
- be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
noun
- (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
- (informal, by extension, African-American Vernacular, hip hop, always plural) A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.
- (countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form)
- (countable, in particular) A word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
- (uncountable) Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
- (countable) A word that rhymes with another.
- (informal, African-American Vernacular, hip hop) An instance of rapping; a rapped verse; a line or couple lines of rapping; a hip hop song.
- A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
- a piece of poetry
- correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
verb
- (transitive) To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.
- (intransitive, figurative, followed by with) To somewhat resemble or correspond with.
- (intransitive, followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
- (ambitransitive) To compose or treat in verse; versify.
- (intransitive, of an utterance, text, etc.) To contain words that are pronounced identically to each other from the vowel in the stressed syllable to the end.
- (reciprocal, of two or more words) To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
- compose rhymes
- be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
noun
- (prosody, phonetics, sometimes uncountable) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant.
- An temporary break from work, especially one which is unexpected.
- (anatomy) An opening in an organ.
- A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
- An interruption, break, pause or absence.
- (geology) A gap in geological strata.
- a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)
- a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
verb
- (linguistics) To turn a consonant into a vowel.
- (of animals) To produce noises or calls from the throat.
- (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)
- (music) To sing without using words.
- To express with the voice, to utter.
- utter speech sounds
- pronounce as a vowel
- sing (each note a scale or in a melody) with the same vowel
- express or state clearly
- utter with vibrating vocal chords
verb
- (linguistics, intransitive, of a segment such as a vowel) To undergo separation of its features into distinct segments.
- (computing, transitive) To decompress (data).
- (intransitive) To empty containers that had been packed.
- (transitive) To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.
- (figurative, transitive) To analyze a concept or a text; to explain.
- remove from its packing
adj
- consisting of a syllable or syllables
- Of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
- of or relating to syllables
- (of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllable
- (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities
- consisting of or using a syllabary
- Of, or being a form of verse, based on the number of syllables in a line rather than on the arrangement of accents or quantities.
- (linguistics) Designating a sound that is or can be the most sonorant segment of a syllable, as a vowel or a resonant. In the word riddle ([ɹɪdl̩]), the two syllabic sounds are [ɪ] and [l̩].
- Pronounced with every syllable distinct.
noun
noun
adj
adj
- not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong)
- (of speech sounds) not forming or capable of forming the nucleus of a syllable
- Not syllabic.