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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
A reference to something by its polar extremes, as in "we searched high and low".
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
Topics: literature, media, publishing
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A reference to something by a list of its parts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
Topics: literature, media, publishing
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Ancient Greek μερισμός (merismós). Compare μέρος (méros, “part”).
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
