Crossword-Solution: SYNCOPATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Syncopate | v. t. | To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester." |
| Syncopate | v. t. | To commence, as a tone, on an unaccented part of a measure, and continue it into the following accented part, so that the accent is driven back upon the weak part and the rhythm drags. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Accent the off-beats | 1 answer |
| Play in jazz style. | 1 answer |
| Put the accent on the weak beat | 1 answer |
| MAKE lean | 38 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
EATAG
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SYNCOPATE (3)
Nevertheless, the world of art is a region especially fitted for _einfuehlung._ For there the need for quick action, which in life tends to syncopate emotion, does not exist.
Syncopate a square column, and leave an adhesive salve; syncopate the salve, and leave a person found in a bindery; syncopate again, and leave a prayer.
Significant is it that, as the writer in the Times remarks, "In American slang to 'rag' a melody is to syncopate a normally regular time." The "rag" idiom can thus be put on and off like a mask; and in recent years we have seen thus grotesquely disguised, as the Mendelssohn Wedding March, for instance, in "No Wedding Bells for Me," many familiar melodies.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1953–2015).