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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ANACRUSIS

From Greek anakrousis prelude, from anakrouein to strike up, from ana- + krouein to strike.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ANACRUSIS

anacrusis  [ˌænəˈkruːsɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANACRUSIS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Anacrusis is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ANACRUSIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Anacrusis

In poetry, a set of extrametrical syllables at the beginning of a verse is said to stand in anacrusis. The technique is seen Old English poetry; in lines of iambic pentameter, the technique applies a variation on the typical pentameter line causing it to appear at first glance as trochaic. In music, an anacrusis is the note or sequence of notes which precedes the first downbeat in a bar. In the latter sense an anacrusis is often called a pickup or pickup note. Western standards for musical notation often include the recommendation that when a piece of written music begins with an anacrusis, the composer, copyist, typesetter, or printer should delete a corresponding number of beats from the written music's final bar in order to keep the number of bars in the entire piece at a whole number. In academic publishing, the term is sometimes used in an article to mark an introductory idea standing between the abstract and the introduction proper. The plural of anacrusis is anacruses.

Definition of anacrusis in the English dictionary

The definition of anacrusis in the dictionary is one or more unstressed syllables at the beginning of a line of verse. Other definition of anacrusis is an unstressed note or group of notes immediately preceding the strong first beat of the first bar.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANACRUSIS


apneusis
æpˈnuːsɪs
catharsis
kəˈθɑːsɪs
cercis
ˈsɜːsɪs
Crucis
ˈkruːsɪs
electrophoresis
ɪˌlɛktrəʊfəˈriːsɪs
Eleusis
ɪˈluːsɪs
emphyteusis
ˌemfɪˈtjuːsɪs
erythropoiesis
ɪˌrɪθrəʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs
hematopoiesis
ˌhemətəʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs
hyperacusis
ˌhaɪpərəˈkjuːsɪs
hysteresis
ˌhɪstəˈriːsɪs
mimesis
mɪˈmiːsɪs
paracusis
ˌpærəˈkuːsɪs
Persis
ˈpɜːsɪs
presbyacousis
ˌprɛzbɪəˈkuːsɪs
presbyacusis
ˌprɛzbɪəˈkuːsɪs
presbycousis
ˌprɛzbɪˈkuːsɪs
presbycusis
ˌprɛzbɪˈkuːsɪs
therapeusis
ˌθerəˈpjuːsɪs
thesis
ˈθiːsɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANACRUSIS

anachronistic
anachronistically
anachronous
anachronously
anaclastic
anaclinal
anaclisis
anaclitic
anacolutha
anacoluthia
anacoluthic
anacoluthically
anacoluthon
anaconda
anacoustic
Anacreon
Anacreontic
Anacreontically
anacruses
anacrustic

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANACRUSIS

analysis
babesiosis
basis
berylliosis
chassis
crisis
diagnosis
emphasis
eremacausis
genesis
hemoptysis
hypothesis
Isis
necrosis
oasis
osmosis
sarcoidosis
sis
synopsis
synthesis

Synonyms and antonyms of anacrusis in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «anacrusis» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANACRUSIS

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The translations of anacrusis from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «anacrusis» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

anacrusis
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

anacrusis
570 millions of speakers

English

anacrusis
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

anacrusis
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

anacrusis
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Anacrusis
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Anacrusis
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

anacrusis
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

anacrouse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Anacrusis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Auftakt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

anacrusis
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

anacrusis
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Anacrusis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

anacrusis
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

anacrusis
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अॅनार्कसिस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

anacrusis
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

anacrusi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

anacrusis
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Anacrusis
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

anacrusis
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

ANACRUSIS
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

anacrusis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

anacrusis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

anacrusis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of anacrusis

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANACRUSIS»

The term «anacrusis» is normally little used and occupies the 112.801 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANACRUSIS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about anacrusis

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANACRUSIS»

Discover the use of anacrusis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to anacrusis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Metre of Old Saxon Poetry: The Remaking of Alliterative ...
Anacrusis Anacrusis may be characterised as an optional full metrical position in the Genesis as in the Heliand, and in distinction from Beowulf, on the following grounds (Tables A2.7 and A2.8). First, anacrusis may occur in the b-verse as well  ...
誠一·鈴木, 2004
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The Metrical Organization of Beowulf: Prototype and Isomorphism
Third, granted that the alleged rhythmical similarity is something real, the assumption of anacrusis can give it due recognition by interpreting the phenomenon in question in terms of pure syllable concatenation without regard to the difference ...
Seiichi Suzuki, 1996
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Old English Metre: An Introduction
3.4 Anacrusis in the verses of Types A and d, there occasionally appear one or two extrametrical unstressed syllables preceding the initial lift, which are called AnAcrUSiS:  | /  | /  in Caines cynne in cain's race [as cain's race] ...
Jun Terasawa, 2011
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Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2008 Conference
Analysis of the anacrusis Two sentences were analysed and manually segmented into rhythm units (with Praat [12] software) following the model of structure proposed by [9] that is, into anacrusis (ANA) and Narrow Rhythm Units ( NRU) where ...
Plinio A. Barbosa, Sandra Madureira, César Reis.
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Moving Notation: A Handbook of Musical Rhythm and Elementary ...
Anacrusis Anacrusis For example, in the code word pattern ONE/NUMBER, the quarter note receives more weight than the 8th notes due to its full-beat length. The sub-beat 8th notes receive added lift derived from the additional rhythmic ...
Jill Beck, H. Joseph Reiser, 1998
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Pascal Programming for Music Research
Thus the total of the fractional durations in the anacrusis must be saved before the rest of the excerpt is processed. The last measure is treated as any other measure unless there was an anacrusis; in this case the sum of the last measure and ...
Alexander R. Brinkman, 1990
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From Old Revelation to New: A Tradition-historical and ...
Amos 8:9 wehaya bayyom hahu' ne'um YHWHC (anacrusis) 8:1 1 hinneh ydmim bd'im ne'um YHWHC (anacrusis) 8:13 bayyom hahu' (anacrusis) 9: 1 1 bayyom hahu' (anacrusis) 9:13 hinneh ydmim bd'im ne'um YHWH (anacrusis) Mic 2:4 ...
Simon John De Vries, 1995
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Igor'-Severjanin: His Life and Work--the Formal Aspects of ...
As to the anacrusis (syllables preceding the first ictus), one notices the preponderance of the one-syllable anacrusis, which is uncommon: usually the two-syllable anacrusis prevails. Eight of the 572 Dk 3 lines have a three-syllable anacrusis, ...
Lenie Lauwers, 1993
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English Historical Metrics
The permissible extent of anacrusis testifies to its intimate association with prefixes. OE prefixes usually have one syllable, sometimes two. Anacrusis usually consists of one syllable, sometimes two, never more. Verses like (11c-d) would ...
C. B. McCully, J. J. Anderson, 1996
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Intonation, Accent and Rhythm: Studies in Discourse Phonology
Anacrusis is taken to mark the initial unstressed segment of a Y-frame before the Head (the first accented syllable of a Y-frame). The initial boundary is complex, not correlating with a single boundary tone, but consisting of hath Anacrusis ...
Dafydd Gibbon, Helmut Richter, 1984

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANACRUSIS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term anacrusis is used in the context of the following news items.
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St. Louis' Thriving Metal Scene is Catching International Attention
In the late 1980s, local outfit Anacrusis infused the thrashy sounds associated with Slayer and Metallica with elements of brainy progressive ... «Riverfront Times, Apr 15»
2
ATHEIST's KELLY SHAEFER To Play Cop In New Movie 'Rocky …
The cover artwork was created by Eliran Kantor, who has previously worked with TESTAMENT, SIGH, ANACRUSIS and GWAR, among others. «BLABBERMOUTH.NET, Mar 15»
3
Tiga Deconstructed - How Does Bugatti Work?
This is a key feature of the arrangement of the track, with Tiga using repeated instances of anacrusis to subtly lead into new sections. It's a neat ... «Stoney Roads, Feb 15»
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An Anti-Vaccination Group Is Encouraging Parents To Join A Fake …
... for the withholding of vital childhood vaccinations oft preceded by the not-even-remotely scientifically qualifying anacrusis of "As a parent...". «Pedestrian TV, Jan 15»
5
Kenn Nardi Releases New Solo Album
Kenn Nardi - guitarist/vocalist/producer and chief writer for Anacrusis from 1986-1993 - went the solo route under the Cruel April moniker in ... «Metal Underground, Nov 14»
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Jazz on Tap: Interview with tap dancer Cheryl Johnson
... non-profit organization Anacrusis Modern Tap Dance, the Seattle Festivals of Tap Dance and Johnson & Peters, Seattle's Tap Dancing Duo, ... «Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Nov 14»
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HATEBREED's FRANK NOVINEC Speaks To GetYourRockOut At …
... handling mixing duties. The cover artwork was created and illustrated by Eliran Kantor (TESTAMENT, ATHEIST, SIGH, ANACRUSIS, GWAR). «BLABBERMOUTH.NET, Aug 14»
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ATHEIST Preparing To Record New Album
The cover artwork was created by Eliran Kantor, who has previously worked with TESTAMENT, SIGH, ANACRUSIS and GWAR, among others. «BLABBERMOUTH.NET, Jun 14»
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What can we learn from 1954's great year in film?
Though I have tended to see it as more of a noble anacrusis to 1955 (fabled year of Carl Dreyer's Ordet, Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter ... «The Conversation, Apr 14»
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HATEBREED Frontman Interviewed At VANS WARPED TOUR UK …
... handling mixing duties. The cover artwork was created and illustrated by Eliran Kantor (TESTAMENT, ATHEIST, SIGH, ANACRUSIS, GWAR). «BLABBERMOUTH.NET, Nov 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. Anacrusis [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/anacrusis>. May 2024 ».
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