dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/syl_MW.json

{
  "syllable":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a unit of spoken language that is next bigger than a speech sound and consists of one or more vowel sounds alone or of a syllabic consonant alone or of either with one or more consonant sounds preceding or following":[],
      ": one or more letters (such as syl, la , and ble ) in a word (such as syl*la*ble ) usually set off from the rest of the word by a centered dot or a hyphen and roughly corresponding to the syllables of spoken language and treated as helps to pronunciation or as guides to placing hyphens at the end of a line":[],
      ": sol-fa syllables":[],
      ": the smallest conceivable expression or unit of something : jot":[],
      ": to express or utter in or as if in syllables":[],
      ": to give a number or arrangement of syllables to (a word or verse)":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "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",
      "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"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "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"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8si-l\u0259-b\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "beans",
      "bubkes",
      "bupkes",
      "bupkus",
      "continental",
      "damn",
      "darn",
      "durn",
      "diddly",
      "diddly-squat",
      "doodley-squat",
      "doodly-squat",
      "fig",
      "ghost",
      "hoot",
      "iota",
      "jot",
      "lick",
      "modicum",
      "rap",
      "squat",
      "tittle",
      "whit",
      "whoop"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041745",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "syllogism":{
    "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":"20220708-152522"
  },
  "syllogist":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": one who applies or is skilled in syllogistic reasoning":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8si-l\u0259-jist"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1799, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-221915"
  },
  "sylloge":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": collection , compendium":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8sil\u0259(\u02cc)j\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek syllog\u0113 , from syllegein to collect, from syn- + legein to collect, gather":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-063131"
  },
  "syllogistic":{
    "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":"20220709-090034"
  },
  "syllogistical":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": syllogistic":[],
      ": given to reasoning by or dealing in syllogisms":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-t\u0113k-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin syllogistic us + English -al":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-150640"
  },
  "syllis":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the type genus of Syllidae":[],
      ": any worm of the genus Syllis":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8sil\u0259\u0307s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-003402"
  },
  "sylvanite":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a mineral (Au,Ag)Te 2 consisting of a gold silver telluride, having a steel gray, silver white, or brass yellow color, and often occurring in implanted crystals resembling written characters (hardness 1.5\u20132 specific gravity 7.9\u20138.3)":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French sylvanite , from sylvane sylvanite (from Transylvania , its locality) + -ite":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-005954"
  }
}