Meaning of syllabate | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of syllabify.

rare

Examples

“City teachers, now-a-days, are greatly diverted when they hear of a country school, way back in some rural district far from a railroad, in which children are taught to read and spell on the ancient plan of calling the names of letters; b-a—ba, b-e—be, b-i—bi, etc.; running the consonent letters from B to Z with the vowels following; a-b—ab, e-b—eb, and so on to a-z—az, i-z—iz; ending at u-z—uz, when the name of the land where dwelt the patient Job is struck. Such syllabating is now gone out of fashion.”

“The spelling and sylllabating exercises begin with the simplest sounds and the shortest words, homophonously arranged;”

“So the term panjul was used for designating the Korean syllabated alphabet.”

“When Giannina ended her narration Doctor Coperti syllabated “Well, well,” and still remained gazing into the girl’s eyes.”

“On the basis of this same status as a behavioral unit, the syllable is considered to be a potential universal — it is assumed that syllabating behavior is likely to occur in many speech communities, but it is not considered a necessary aspect of speech behavior.”

“The verses are syllabated over a brisk march-like tune, picked out with first violins, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet and trombone.”

“As was pointed out in connection with the discussion of Tuscarora, the phonetic realization of syllabated speech usually, for any given language, has more phonetic segments per lexical item than does the phonetic realization of slow-careful, casual, or allegro speech.”

“That way the passersby shall see / You laid me beneath a mutepe / Whose languid ground-pointing leaves / Rub fingers green-softly in commemoration / Syllabating, hushing me: / Sleep, tired traveller! Sleep and rest!”

“At first they are addressed to crowds—in Boston or Hanover—but they always aim at the single ear, the solitary listener: the silence of the word syllabating in the silence of the reader’s world—in the silence of the private house, in the hall of the whole body.”

“Not so, however, Chevreuse’s cavatina in Maria di Rohan (“Gemea di tetro carcere”), which is launched by a long “syllabated” anacrusis, suggesting the continuation of a conversation.”

“i don't even care if it sounds corny (like khad de montebel or something equally overly syllabated).”

“In Portuguese or Spanish, it's rare the word that cannot be syllabated on sight, and those will typically be words of foreign origin.”

““Another world?” I suggested, barely syllabating out loud.”

“Therefore the newborn must already be able to syllabate the words of adults, extract occurrences from them and experiment with them, which is obviously not possible.”

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