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Examples of elide
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That's what I think he should have said if he wanted to elide the full disclosure.
From the abcnews.go.com
How can language and its words elide with the springing notes of jazz?
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
If you're trying to elide all-out upsets, encourage plenty of colour and commotion at the margins.
From the economist.com
All seem to him to mis-state, to elide, or to conceal the absolute strangeness of being human.
From the guardian.co.uk
When the economy is humming along, their economic illiteracy has been a problem they can elide.
From the washingtonpost.com
Certain Ancient Greek words that end in short vowels elide when the next word starts with a vowel.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It means the scenes elide into each other as if it were a mix.
From the variety.com
In some cases, the preposition and the article of the nominal phrase may or must elide together.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Better to elide the specifics and read the Bible for its teachings on love, compassion, and forgiveness.
From the newsweek.com
- Leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"
- (elision) omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
- (elision) exception: a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news"
- In linguistics, elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase. Sometimes sounds are elided to make a word easier to pronounce. The word elision is frequently used in linguistic description of living languages, and deletion is often used in historical linguistics for a historical sound change.
- (Elision (French)) In French, elision refers to the suppression of a final unstressed vowel (usually) immediately before another word beginning with a vowel. ...
- (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. ...
- 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)
- (elision) The deliberate omission of something; The omission of a letter or syllable between two words; sometimes marked with an apostrophe
- (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.
