Meaning of upskip | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An upstart.
   obsolete
2. A raise in pitch with no perceptible glide connecting the tone to the previous sound

Examples

“If you should ever see⟳ any of the King's Judges taking upon them a legislative, instead of a judicial, Power; dispensing with, denying, or withholding the known, established Laws, or executing the Dictates of any foreign Legislature, or Jurisdiction, unapproved by our Parliament; if any such should presume to influence⟳, or over-awe JURIES , by Threats, or other illicit Measures; or unlawfully to strip⟳ Juries of their Power, or Pivileges, or to censure, or abuse them, for making any just and lawful Presentment; for finding or rejecting any Bill, or for finding any true Verdict; or, if any of these Officers, in any other Manner commits a breach of his Oath and Duty; that Grand Jury, that does not, on the first fair Opportunity , present⟳ such an upskip, hireling Tyrant, as a Traitor and an Enemy to his King and Country; is purjured and infamous.”

“Nobody can tell⟳ that yet, of course; it is too soon; in a month, in two months, perhaps, we shall know⟳ whether Mussolini is a real leader or an upskip.”

“Concern⟳ was also expressed for the King's thin and weak physique, and Bishop Latimer was worried that he was coming too much under the influence⟳ of “velvet coats and upskips" –frivolous and upstart courtiers who fawned upon the boy.”

“Someone reading the following aloud, The normal course will have⟳ one to three hour-examinations per term and a three-hour examination at the end⟳ of each term. will feel⟳ a need⟳ to put⟳ a pause after the first three and resume on hour with an abrupt upskip and also possibly a glottal stop⟳ plus head and hand gestures , to avoid⟳ the suggestion of three-hour as a constituent at that point⟳.”

“Three tests are administered, in which aspects of pitch trajectories analysed as allphonic in the phonemic system turn⟳ out to have⟳ more importance than the supposedly phonemic distinctions; the second of these tests finds that upglides and upskips in a sequence that Trager & Smith (1951) would presumably transcribe /32||/ are categorically distinguished.”

“Pitch-squeeze tone modifier (sign⟳ :) is manifested by a pitch range narrowing over the whole tone cadence; hence no pitch upskip or downskip or evenskip is noticeable.”

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