Syncope

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Syncope \Syn"co*pe\, n. [L. syncope, syncopa, Gr. ? a cutting
     up, a syncope; akin to ? to beat together, to cut up, cut
     short, weavy; sy`n with + ? to strike, cut.]
     1. (Gram.) An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters
        or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne'er for
        never, ev'ry for every.


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     2. (Mus.) Same as {Syncopation}.
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     3. (Med.) A fainting, or swooning. See {Fainting}.
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     4. A pause or cessation; suspension. [R.]
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              Revely, and dance, and show,
              Suffer a syncope and solemn pause.    --Cowper.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  syncope
       n 1: a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient
            blood to the brain [syn: {faint}, {swoon}, {deliquium}]
       2: (phonology) the loss of sounds in the interior of a word (as
          in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle') [syn: {syncopation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "syncope":
     KO, abbreviation, abridgment, abstract, andante tempo, apocope,
     aposiopesis, beat, blackout, catalepsy, catatonia, catatony,
     clipping, coma, compound time, compression, condensation,
     conspectus, contraction, crasis, curtailment, cutting, duple time,
     elision, ellipsis, epitome, faint, foreshortening, grayout, kayo,
     knockout, largo, lipothymia, lipothymy, march tempo, mixed times,
     nirvana, nirvana principle, nothingness, oblivion, obliviousness,
     precis, presto, pruning, rag, ragtime, recap, recapitulation,
     reduction, retrenchment, rubato, semiconsciousness, senselessness,
     sextuple time, shortening, simple time, sleep, stupor, summary,
     summation, swoon, syncopation, syneresis, synopsis, telescoping,
     tempo, tempo rubato, three-quarter time, time, time pattern,
     timing, triple time, triplet, truncation, two-four time,
     unconsciousness, waltz time