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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Raising of the voice in prosody, accented part of a metrical foot
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a qualitative meter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, poetry, publishing, writing
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noun
The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar, opposed to the thesis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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History
From Latin Arsis, from Ancient Greek ἄρσις (ársis, “elevation”).
From Ancient Greek ἄρσις (ársis, “lifting”), from αἴρω (aírō, “to lift”).
Across languages
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
