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syncopate
[ sing-kuh-peyt, sin- ]
verb (used with object)
- Music.
- to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented.
- to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- Grammar. to contract (a word) by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in reducing Gloucester to Gloster.
syncopate
/ ˈ²õɪŋ°ìəˌ±è±ðɪ³Ù /
verb
- music to modify or treat (a beat, rhythm, note, etc) by syncopation
- to shorten (a word) by omitting sounds or letters from the middle
Derived Forms
- ˈ²õ²â²Ô³¦´ÇËŒ±è²¹³Ù´Ç°ù, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²õ²â²Ôc´Ç·±è²¹î€…t´Ç°ù noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of syncopate1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of syncopate1
Example Sentences
Glenn also performed an a capella version of “Deep River,†his syncopated low voice and skilled falsetto moving the entire room into snaps, whistles and screams.
Eva Slater’s 1954 “Galaxy†insets a syncopated network of painted forms within a wooden panel, merging optical motion with material stasis.
The staging, which can seem cluttered and breathless in the early going, traipses through these seedy locales with a theatrical swiftness that captures the milieu that bred the syncopated rhythm of the Jazz Age.
Each one’s momentary glow pulses alive and fades in syncopated rhythm with the drowsy croaks of bullfrogs.
He brought an ensemble to the elegant Appel Room theater, overlaying syncopated backbeats, heralding horn lines and tapestries of Rhodes and distorted guitar.
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