Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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
An omission of words needed to fully express the sense of a phrase.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A line or dash used to show that text has been omitted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A mutation of the initial sound of a word by which voiceless sounds become voiced, voiced stops become nasal consonants, and vowels acquire a prothetic nasal consonant: see Appendix:Irish mutations#Eclipsis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Irish, countable, uncountable
Qualifier: Manx grammar
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: nasalization
Antonyms: none provided
noun
omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: ellipsis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: omission, deletion
History
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “disappearance, abandoning”). Doublet of eclipse.
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
