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Verb
/iˈlīd/,
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elided, past participle; elides, 3rd person singular present; eliding, present participle; elided, past tense;
  1. Omit (a sound or syllable) when speaking
    • - the indication of elided consonants or vowels
  2. Join together; merge
    • - whole periods of time are elided into a few seconds of screen time
    • - the two things elided in his mind
  1. leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"
  2. (elision) omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
  3. (elision) exception: a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news"
  4. (Élision) Elision is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase, producing a result that is easier for the speaker to pronounce. Sometimes, sounds may be elided for euphonic effect.
  5. (Elision (French)) In French, elision refers to the suppression of a final unstressed vowel (usually) immediately before another word beginning with a vowel. ...
  6. (Elision (music)) In the analysis of 18th- and 19th-century Western music, an elision, overlap, or rather reinterpretation (Umdeutung), is the perception, after the fact, of a (metrically weak) cadential chord at the end of one phrase as the (metrically strong) initial chord of the next phrase. ...
  7. To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; To distract from or evade (a question or line of argument); To leave out omit (something)
  8. (elision) The deliberate omission of something; The omission of a letter or syllable between two words; sometimes marked with an apostrophe
  9. (Elision) Dropping or suppressing a letter or syllable in pronunciation, as in the pronunciation of ‘Ruthven’ as ‘Rivven’.
  10. (elision) omission of some words in a natural language statement, e.g. He gave John cookies and [he gave] Mary candy. The second set of words he gave may be elided.
  11. Elision refers to the leaving out of an unstressed syllable or vowel, usually in order to keep a regular meter in a line of poetry for example ‘o’er’ for ‘over’.
  12. (ELISION) (verb form, elide): (1) In poetry, when the poet takes a word that ends in a vowel, and a following word that begins with a vowel, and blurs them together to create a single syllable, the result is an elision. Contrast with synaeresis, syncope, and acephalous lines. ...
  13. (ELISION) The omission of part of a word (o er, ne er) to make a line conform to a metrical pattern.
  14. (Elision) is commonly described as the elimination of final syllables ending in vowel or vowel+m during poetic recitation if the next word starts with a vowel or h. Now if you revel in technicalities, elision properly refers only to the loss of a vowel. ...
  15. (Elision) of vowels occurs in Sotho less often than in those Bantu languages which have vowel "pre-prefixes" before the noun class prefixes (such as Zulu), but there are still instances where it regularly and actively occurs. ...
  16. (Elision) omission of a consonant (e.g., "ere" for "ever") or a vowel (e.g., "tother" for "the other"), usually to achieve a metrical effect.
  17. (Elision) the shortening of a theme or phrase by removing particular notes
  18. (elision) A change that consists in the loss of unstressed vowels or syllables. English reduces and sometimes elides (produces elision) of unstressed vowels in long words like secretary, laboratory, elementary. See also apocope and syncope.
  19. (elision) Deliberate omission of unstressed syllables, typically in order to maintain a rhythm – e.g. “o’er” for “over”.
  20. (elision) Omission or abbreviation: used particularly of the loss of sounds in fast speech or in historical development. In the pronunciation [de:so] of de eso, one of the [e] sounds is elided.
  21. (elision) The merging together of two syllables in a line e.g. 'e'er' rather than 'ever'.
  22. (elision) a method used to drop a letter at the beginning or middle of a word in order to conform to the metrical pattern. Ex. O’er many a dark and dreary vale. O’er many a frozen, many a fiery Alpe Milton. Example of middle drop would be “ trav’ler.” Also called a syncope.
  23. (elision) h9 a)pokoph/, -h=j (CGD)
  24. (elision) the omission of sounds in connected speech, for example the speech corresponding to “hat ’n’ coat” and to “p’lice”.
  25. to suppress or alter by elision; to strike out (a word or passage)