Word Meanings - CIRCUMFLECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To bend around. 2. To mark with the circumflex accent, as a vowel.
Related words: (words related to CIRCUMFLECT)
- VOWELIZE
To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to. - ACCENTUALITY
The quality of being accentual. - CIRCUMFLEXION
1. The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form. 2. A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold. - AROUND
1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. 3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took - ACCENTUABLE
Capable of being accented. - VOWEL
A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a consonant in - VOWELISM
The use of vowels. - VOWELISH
Of the nature of a vowel. "The power is always vowelish." B. Jonson. - ACCENTOR
One who sings the leading part; the director or leader. - ACCENTUATION
Act of accentuating; applications of accent. Specifically - ACCENTLESS
Without accent. - ACCENTUALLY
In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent. - VOWELED
Furnished with vowels. Dryden. - ACCENTUATE
1. To pronounce with an accent or with accents. 2. To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize. In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated. London Times. 3. To mark with the written accent. - ACCENT
Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse. A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure. A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure. The rythmical - ACCENTUAL
Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent. - CIRCUMFLEX
circumflectere, circumflexum, to bend or turn about; circum + 1. A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable. Walker. 2. A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice - SEMIVOWEL
A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y. The sign or letter representing such a sound. - RUN-AROUND
A whitlow running around the finger nail, but not affecting the bone. - UNVOWELED
Having no vowel sounds or signs. Skinner.