Crossword-Solution: SYLLABLE
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| Syllable | n. | An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reenforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, /275. |
| Syllable | n. | In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language. |
| Syllable | n. | A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle. |
| Syllable | v. t. | To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “SYLLABLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| One of 17 in a haiku | 1 answer |
| WORD or part of containing one vowel-sound | 1 answer |
| Unit of pronunciation | 1 answer |
| There's only one in Maine | 1 answer |
| Single sounded unit of a word | 1 answer |
| Pronunciation piece | 1 answer |
| Penult is one. | 1 answer |
| One of two in seven | 1 answer |
| One of seven in this clue | 1 answer |
| One of an iamb's two | 1 answer |
| One of 14 in "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" | 1 answer |
| HINT of | 1 answer |
| Either half of Philly | 1 answer |
| All of one through ten but one have one | 1 answer |
| "Cap" or "tain," in "captain" | 1 answer |
| Word unit | 1 answer |
| part of a word pronounced as a unit | 1 answer |
| vocal sound | 2 answers |
| Word chunk | 2 answers |
| Word part | 3 answers |
| Part of a word. | 3 answers |
| A UNIT OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE LARGER THAN A PHONEME | 11 answers |
| Speech sound | 33 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEECAM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SYLLABLE (5)
Before we begin to descend the cliff, you shall creep down to the hut, as noiselessly as possible, and ascertain if the traitor royalists are there? Do you understand?” “I understand, citoyen.” “Now listen very attentively, all of you,” continued Chauvelin, impressively, and addressing the soldiers collectively, “for after this we may not be able to exchange another word, so remember every syllable I utter, as if your very lives depended on your memory.
They may be chiefly found in the singular Anglo-Norman MS., which Sir Arthur Wardour preserves with such jealous care in the third drawer of his oaken cabinet, scarcely allowing any one to touch it, and being himself not able to read one syllable of its contents.
She took account of everything he did and said, pondering it, and trying to make out exactly what he meant, to the inflection of a syllable, the slightest movement or gesture.
Can it be Neptune? Behold him there, the monarch of the seas! Or a trident? or a mermaid? or a shark? Oh, no! shark is only one syllable.
But this is no excuse for their concealing it from us.” “Concealing it from us! my dear child, do you accuse Willoughby and Marianne of concealment? This is strange indeed, when your eyes have been reproaching them every day for incautiousness.” “I want no proof of their affection,” said Elinor; “but of their engagement I do.” “I am perfectly satisfied of both.” “Yet not a syllable has been said to you on the subject, by either of them.” “I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.
Quotes with SYLLABLE (3)
There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.
He shook his head, just looking at me. - "What?" I asked.- "Nothing" he said.- "Why are you looking at me like that?" Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence." A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: "I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything." I kind of scoffed …
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1961–2020).