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"\u201cDoctor\u201d is a two- syllable word.",
"The first syllable of the word \u201cdoctor\u201d is given stress.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But zooming in on the waveform of an individual song syllable can reveal these fine acoustic details. \u2014 Adam Fishbein, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
"Some immigrant languages, like Polish, also prefer initial stress on words of more than one syllable . \u2014 Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Kyle Kuzma walked onto the court in Los Angeles, the crowd already having serenaded him by yelling the first syllable of his last name. \u2014 Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Second syllable , like a country lane and slightly emphasized. Is the Ghislaine Maxwell trial airing on television or streaming",
"With hindsight, the engagement was merely the opening skirmish of a much more consequential and, from the Spanish point of view, catastrophic battle a month later in and around the nearby village of Annual (emphasis accented on the last syllable ). \u2014 Frederic Wehrey, The New York Review of Books , 18 Dec. 2021",
"Ruiz Zaf\u00f3n was one of those artists who worried over every syllable . \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Dec. 2021",
"Her voice, able to wring an entire diary's worth of highs and lows from a single syllable , remains the focal point, but it's framed in new ways. \u2014 Maura Johnston, EW.com , 19 Nov. 2021",
"But more often than not, Lamr rapped with his typically bewildering dexterity, demonstrating a syllable -slinging flair that was mostly absent during other performances from the first day of Day N Vegas. \u2014 Elias Leight, Rolling Stone , 13 Nov. 2021"
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"bupkes",
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"An example of a syllogism is: \u201cAll men are human; all humans are mortal; therefore all men are mortal.\u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Twitter users often accept a flawed syllogism by using a conclusion as one of the premises \u2013 namely, that the platform spreads truthful information. \u2014 Aaron Duncan, The Conversation , 29 Oct. 2020",
"Chairman Xi will undoubtedly want to prevent this syllogism from presenting itself to the minds of Chinese Christians. \u2014 Cameron Hilditch, National Review , 1 Oct. 2020",
"The syllogism runs something like this: Jews, regardless of their American citizenship, owe loyalty to Israel. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Aug. 2019",
"For Whom the Bell Tolls illustrate this trite syllogism . \u2014 David Pryce-jones, National Review , 22 Aug. 2019",
"But the motion, that extraordinary charisma communicated not through image or syllogism but through rhythm alone, remains as permanent as a fingerprint. \u2014 Thomas Chatterton Williams, New York Times , 27 June 2018",
"Shapiro tries to appeal to both the pro-Trump and the anti-Trump factions of the Republican base, spitting out indignant syllogisms in a rapid nasal delivery that sounds like a podcast played at double speed. \u2014 Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker , 23 May 2016",
"The Holocaust was the result of a hideous syllogism : if Germany were to expand into the East, where millions of Jews lived, those Jews would have to vanish, because Germans could not coexist with them. \u2014 Naomi Fry, The New Yorker , 23 Apr. 2018",
"That bassline -- quietly funky, resolving like a syllogism -- served as the bedrock for dozens of hip-hop, R&B, and pop tracks in the decades to follow, some of which have become just as iconic as their source. \u2014 Brad Shoup, Billboard , 8 Feb. 2018"
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"Middle English silogisme , from Anglo-French sillogisme , from Latin syllogismus , from Greek syllogismos , from syllogizesthai to syllogize, from syn- + logizesthai to calculate, from logos reckoning, word \u2014 more at legend":""
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"An example of a syllogism is: \u201cAll men are human; all humans are mortal; therefore all men are mortal.\u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Twitter users often accept a flawed syllogism by using a conclusion as one of the premises \u2013 namely, that the platform spreads truthful information. \u2014 Aaron Duncan, The Conversation , 29 Oct. 2020",
"Chairman Xi will undoubtedly want to prevent this syllogism from presenting itself to the minds of Chinese Christians. \u2014 Cameron Hilditch, National Review , 1 Oct. 2020",
"The syllogism runs something like this: Jews, regardless of their American citizenship, owe loyalty to Israel. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Aug. 2019",
"For Whom the Bell Tolls illustrate this trite syllogism . \u2014 David Pryce-jones, National Review , 22 Aug. 2019",
"But the motion, that extraordinary charisma communicated not through image or syllogism but through rhythm alone, remains as permanent as a fingerprint. \u2014 Thomas Chatterton Williams, New York Times , 27 June 2018",
"Shapiro tries to appeal to both the pro-Trump and the anti-Trump factions of the Republican base, spitting out indignant syllogisms in a rapid nasal delivery that sounds like a podcast played at double speed. \u2014 Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker , 23 May 2016",
"The Holocaust was the result of a hideous syllogism : if Germany were to expand into the East, where millions of Jews lived, those Jews would have to vanish, because Germans could not coexist with them. \u2014 Naomi Fry, The New Yorker , 23 Apr. 2018",
"That bassline -- quietly funky, resolving like a syllogism -- served as the bedrock for dozens of hip-hop, R&B, and pop tracks in the decades to follow, some of which have become just as iconic as their source. \u2014 Brad Shoup, Billboard , 8 Feb. 2018"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The Americas, in turn, received the wheel, the horse, sugar, wheat, livestock, a syllabic script and, of course, rice. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Nov. 2021",
"Germany\u2019s nearly four-month-long lockdown has entailed no restrictions on the language\u2019s propensity for multi- syllabic , often tongue-twisting words. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Mar. 2021",
"First pushed to write lyrics by Billy Joe Shaver of the Texas Playboys, Shires\u2019 work today evokes the phrasing, narrative forms and syllabic alignment familiar to contemporary fiction or poetry. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 Feb. 2020",
"In total, the show had upwards of 20 artists taking the stage to perform disjointed sets over their own vocals, with unusually long and awkward multi- syllabic call and responses chants. \u2014 Marcel Friday, Billboard , 18 June 2018",
"People who hear laurel are hearing a syllabic l in the second syllable, which has some similarities to the vowel sound at the end of yanny. \u2014 Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic , 15 May 2018",
"See Cam\u2019ron at this hometown show for a reminder of his syllabic splendor. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Dec. 2017",
"And with that, sensing there were no more multi- syllabic answers on the horizon, the questions ceased. \u2014 C. Trent Rosecrans, Cincinnati.com , 29 Sep. 2017",
"For English speakers, another huge obstacle may be the German language, with its syllabic pileups. \u2014 Eric Asimov, New York Times , 27 Apr. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Most phones and keyboards need extra software to handle syllabics , so young Inuit text and email mainly in English, says Crystal Martin-Lapenskie of the National Inuit Youth Council. \u2014 The Economist , 3 Oct. 2019",
"Three use syllabics \u2014characters to represent syllables\u2014rather than the roman alphabet. \u2014 The Economist , 3 Oct. 2019",
"Thug is also a master of the art of taking mono- syllabic exclamations and turning them into nonverbal rhythmic signatures. \u2014 John Adamian, courant.com , 4 Oct. 2019",
"Elders who grew up with syllabics fretted that the shift to roman letters would erase part of their culture. \u2014 The Economist , 3 Oct. 2019"
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"Late Latin syllabicus , from Greek syllabikos , from syllab\u0113 syllable":"Adjective"
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"1728, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Louisville Ballet is redesigning the context of the ballet, but the classic story begins when a young groom is awakened on his wedding day by a kiss from a sylph . \u2014 Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal , 17 May 2022",
"When Cher first appeared on TV\u2014a 25-year-old sylph cracking wise in spangly couture alongside her shorter, older, mustachioed husband\u2014millions of people watched her every week, the kind of market share that\u2019s basically inconceivable 51 years later. \u2014 Alessandra Codinha, Vogue , 4 Jan. 2022",
"My mother sculpted this elegant and serene sylph in the 1940s while attending the Yale School of Art. \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 8 May 2019",
"From afar, thanks to her class privilege and sheer force of personality, Lavinia succeeds in looking like an effortless sylph . \u2014 Hannah Orenstein, Vox , 12 Sep. 2018",
"The war was over, the world was coming back to life, and Hollywood was enchanted by a new ideal, the otherworldly sylph as embodied by Caron and Audrey Hepburn. \u2014 David Downton, HWD , 14 Mar. 2017",
"Halley, a tough-talking sylph with a robust scattering of tattoos and cellophane-blue hair, is practically a kid herself. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 5 Oct. 2017",
"The war was over, the world was coming back to life, and Hollywood was enchanted by a new ideal, the otherworldly sylph as embodied by Caron and Audrey Hepburn. \u2014 David Downton, HWD , 15 Mar. 2017",
"The war was over, the world was coming back to life, and Hollywood was enchanted by a new ideal, the otherworldly sylph as embodied by Caron and Audrey Hepburn. \u2014 Laura Jacobs, vanityfair.com , 15 Mar. 2017"
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"The word \u201cdoctor\u201d has two syllables .",
"\u201cDoctor\u201d is a two- syllable word.",
"The first syllable of the word \u201cdoctor\u201d is given stress.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But zooming in on the waveform of an individual song syllable can reveal these fine acoustic details. \u2014 Adam Fishbein, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
"Some immigrant languages, like Polish, also prefer initial stress on words of more than one syllable . \u2014 Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Kyle Kuzma walked onto the court in Los Angeles, the crowd already having serenaded him by yelling the first syllable of his last name. \u2014 Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Second syllable , like a country lane and slightly emphasized. Is the Ghislaine Maxwell trial airing on television or streaming? \u2014 Mallika Sen, USA TODAY , 21 Dec. 2021",
"With hindsight, the engagement was merely the opening skirmish of a much more consequential and, from the Spanish point of view, catastrophic battle a month later in and around the nearby village of Annual (emphasis accented on the last syllable ). \u2014 Frederic Wehrey, The New York Review of Books , 18 Dec. 2021",
"Ruiz Zaf\u00f3n was one of those artists who worried over every syllable . \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Dec. 2021",
"Her voice, able to wring an entire diary's worth of highs and lows from a single syllable , remains the focal point, but it's framed in new ways. \u2014 Maura Johnston, EW.com , 19 Nov. 2021",
"But more often than not, Lamr rapped with his typically bewildering dexterity, demonstrating a syllable -slinging flair that was mostly absent during other performances from the first day of Day N Vegas. \u2014 Elias Leight, Rolling Stone , 13 Nov. 2021"
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French sillabe, silable , from Latin syllaba , from Greek syllab\u0113 , from syllambanein to gather together, from syn- + lambanein to take \u2014 more at latch":"Noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While teaching the genetics and evolution unit, Saint-Louis makes a special effort to engage his students on topics that go beyond the traditional syllabus . \u2014 Sanya Mansoor, Time , 8 June 2022",
"One thing that may help is to exercise your freedom of expression by explaining your approach at the start of the class, even on the syllabus . \u2014 New York Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Over the course of a week or two, the networks threw down their new lineups all at once, another fall syllabus of sorts for people already busy sharpening pencils. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 20 May 2022",
"The syllabus is one of the first opportunities that instructors have to demonstrate their openness and commitment to students\u2019 mental health. \u2014 Max Coleman, The Conversation , 14 Mar. 2022",
"The syllabus had assignments laid out for each day until Christmas break, naming times and places for midterms and a large term paper as well. \u2014 Kendra James, Town & Country , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Not every book or assignment needs to be justified, but instructors tend to underestimate how arbitrary even the most thoughtful syllabus can seem to students and parents. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 27 Oct. 2021",
"The class and its syllabus strike her as if designed solely for her. \u2014 Sophie Haigney, The New Republic , 23 May 2022",
"Multiverse of Madness is one of the Marveliest of them all \u2014 a convoluted plot machine that runs on MacGuffins and fan-service guest appearances, and which requires familiarity with a whole syllabus of past adventures. \u2014 A.a. Dowd, Rolling Stone , 9 May 2022"
],
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"Late Latin, alteration of Latin sillybus label for a book, from Greek sillybos":""
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"circa 1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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": a Rhine wine made from such grapes":[],
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"-van-"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": one that frequents groves or woods":[],
": living or located in the woods or forest":[],
": of, relating to, or characteristic of the woods or forest":[],
": made, shaped, or formed of woods or trees":[],
": abounding in woods, groves, or trees : wooded":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sil-v\u0259n"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The real-life correlate of Circe's isle is a singular place, with a beauty that is still almost completely sylvan . \u2014 Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure , 20 June 2022",
"Backpackers will find primitive camping and trailside shelters amid the sylvan charm of the Berkshires. \u2014 Alison Van Houten, Outside Online , 6 June 2019",
"Patrons of the Eunice Bonner Senior Center can now add long strolls through a sylvan setting to their itineraries of lunches, art classes, yoga, and socializing. \u2014 Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"One woman does yoga in a sylvan breezeway; another plays the drums in a spacious studio with branches lapping at the windows. \u2014 New York Times , 4 May 2022",
"Scientists are also designing proteins with amino acid compositions similar to those in feed made of fish but created from sawdust and other forest residue plentiful in the sylvan state of Maine. \u2014 Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
"Big Santa Anita Canyon is known for the string of cottages that line a sylvan creek as well as the historic Sturtevant Camp, which until the fire was open to all who wanted a nearby respite from the urban grind. \u2014 Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Debased with posters and signs, the posts nonetheless retain something of their sylvan essence. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 Dec. 2021",
"Amid the sylvan tranquility of the Berkeley hills neighborhood, an image of a snarling predator, fangs bared, stares down at passersby from atop a pole planted in the yard of a sprawling Tudor-style home. \u2014 Todd Woody, Anchorage Daily News , 7 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Medieval Latin silvanus, sylvanus , from Latin silva, sylva wood":"Adjective"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1565, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"circa 1583, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-032843"
},
"syllabize":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":{
": syllabify":[],
": to utter (as verse) with distinct articulation of separate syllables":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccb\u012bz"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Medieval Latin syllabizare , from Greek syllabizein , from syllab\u0113 syllable + -izein -ize":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-034739"
},
"syllogisms":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in \"every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable\")":[],
": a subtle, specious, or crafty argument":[],
": deductive reasoning":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8si-l\u0259-\u02ccji-z\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"An example of a syllogism is: \u201cAll men are human; all humans are mortal; therefore all men are mortal.\u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Twitter users often accept a flawed syllogism by using a conclusion as one of the premises \u2013 namely, that the platform spreads truthful information. \u2014 Aaron Duncan, The Conversation , 29 Oct. 2020",
"Chairman Xi will undoubtedly want to prevent this syllogism from presenting itself to the minds of Chinese Christians. \u2014 Cameron Hilditch, National Review , 1 Oct. 2020",
"The syllogism runs something like this: Jews, regardless of their American citizenship, owe loyalty to Israel. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Aug. 2019",
"For Whom the Bell Tolls illustrate this trite syllogism . \u2014 David Pryce-jones, National Review , 22 Aug. 2019",
"But the motion, that extraordinary charisma communicated not through image or syllogism but through rhythm alone, remains as permanent as a fingerprint. \u2014 Thomas Chatterton Williams, New York Times , 27 June 2018",
"Shapiro tries to appeal to both the pro-Trump and the anti-Trump factions of the Republican base, spitting out indignant syllogisms in a rapid nasal delivery that sounds like a podcast played at double speed. \u2014 Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker , 23 May 2016",
"The Holocaust was the result of a hideous syllogism : if Germany were to expand into the East, where millions of Jews lived, those Jews would have to vanish, because Germans could not coexist with them. \u2014 Naomi Fry, The New Yorker , 23 Apr. 2018",
"That bassline -- quietly funky, resolving like a syllogism -- served as the bedrock for dozens of hip-hop, R&B, and pop tracks in the decades to follow, some of which have become just as iconic as their source. \u2014 Brad Shoup, Billboard , 8 Feb. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English silogisme , from Anglo-French sillogisme , from Latin syllogismus , from Greek syllogismos , from syllogizesthai to syllogize, from syn- + logizesthai to calculate, from logos reckoning, word \u2014 more at legend":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-044037"
},
"syllabify":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to form or divide into syllables":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8la-b\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin syllaba syllable":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1859, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-061520"
},
"sylvatic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": sylvan":[
"sylvatic rodents"
],
": occurring in or affecting wild animals":[
"sylvatic diseases"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"sil-\u02c8va-tik",
"sil-\u02c8vat-ik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Added genetic diversity could help protect the population from diseases such as sylvatic plague and canine distemper that periodically slash its numbers, reports Mead Gruver for the Associated Press. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 22 Feb. 2021",
"All ferrets reintroduced so far are the descendants of just seven closely related animals \u2014 genetic similarity that makes today\u2019s ferrets potentially susceptible to intestinal parasites and diseases such as sylvatic plague. \u2014 Mead Gruver, USA TODAY , 19 Feb. 2021",
"All ferrets reintroduced so far are the descendants of just seven closely related animals \u2014 genetic similarity that makes today\u2019s ferrets potentially susceptible to intestinal parasites and diseases such as sylvatic plague. \u2014 NBC News , 19 Feb. 2021",
"The lack of genetic diversity is a concern for scientists, however: Genetic similarity would make the new ferrets potentially susceptible to intestinal parasites and diseases such as sylvatic plague. \u2014 Peter Aitken, Fox News , 19 Feb. 2021",
"Diseases like sylvatic plague wiped out the ferrets that the biologists left behind. \u2014 Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine , 4 Jan. 2021",
"Most of those rare animals were then lost to disease, including sylvatic plague, the animal version of the Black Death that has plagued humans. \u2014 Jonel Aleccia, Quartz , 23 Dec. 2020",
"Most of those rare animals were then lost to disease, including sylvatic plague, the animal version of the Black Death that has plagued humans. \u2014 Jonel Aleccia, CNN , 23 Dec. 2020",
"In 1987, there were only 18 surviving due to outbreaks of canine distemper virus and sylvatic plague. \u2014 Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal , 24 Feb. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin silvaticus of the woods, wild \u2014 more at savage":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1661, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-063714"
},
"Syllidae":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a large family of small free-swimming polychaete worms related to the Nereidae but usually reproducing by asexual budding":[]
": a liquid terpene hydrocarbon C 10 H 16 or mixture of two isomeric terpenes occurring in dextrorotatory, levorotatory, and inactive racemic forms and obtained as the dihydrochloride of the dextrorotatory form by treating either of the carenes or oil fractions containing them with hydrogen chloride; 1,8- or 6,8- meta -menthadiene":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"sil\u02c8ve\u02ccstr\u0113n"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary sylvestr- (from New Latin sylvestris \u2014specific epithet of Pinus sylvestris , the species of pine from which it is derived\u2014, from Latin, sylvan) + -ene":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-142517"
},
"syllabary":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8si-l\u0259-\u02ccber-\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"It was written in Cherokee syllabary , a writing system that was only formally adopted by the tribe a few years prior. \u2014 Megan Gannon, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 May 2022",
"The museum\u2019s new curator Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, who organized the exhibition, is pictured above with a selection of that sui-generis syllabary . \u2014 The New Yorker , 4 Mar. 2022",
"With a collaborator, Rozin devised an experimental curriculum that moved children through degrees of linguistic abstraction by teaching them Chinese logographs followed by a Japanese syllabary , and only then applying the same logic to English. \u2014 New York Times , 27 Dec. 2021",
"But nearly 600 years ago, a scientifically minded Korean king introduced hangul, an indigenous writing system often called the best designed syllabary in the world. \u2014 New York Times , 15 June 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin syllabarium , from Latin syllaba syllable":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1586, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-145608"
},
"syllabicity":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the state of being or the power of forming a syllable":[]
": the type genus of warblers of the formerly extensive family Sylviidae restricted to the European whitethroat, the blackcap, and related forms":[],
": any warbler of the genus Sylvia":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8silv\u0113\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from the name Sylvia , often used as a nickname for a robin":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-175629"
},
"sylphid":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a young or diminutive sylph":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sil-f\u0259d"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1680, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-184339"
},
"syllepsis":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the use of a word to modify or govern syntactically two or more words with only one of which it formally agrees in gender, number, or case":[],
": the use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent words in the context with one literal and the other metaphorical in sense":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8lep-s\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, from Greek syll\u0113psis , from syllambanein":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1550, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-191814"
},
"syllabarium":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": syllabary":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-b\u0101r-",
"\u02ccsil\u0259\u02c8ba(a)r\u0113\u0259m",
"-ber-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-192809"
},
"sylphon":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a thin-walled tubular bellows used in temperature and pressure regulators, bellows seals, and expansion joints":[
"In between, a maze of valves, venturis (short tubes with constricted throats), and sylphons (pleated metal bellows) interacted with one another, maintaining conditions inside the airplane as outside pressure varied.",
"\u2014 Nick D'Alto , Air & Space Smithsonian , September 2000",
