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Meaning of "disyllable" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DISYLLABLE

disyllable  [ˈdaɪsɪləbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DISYLLABLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Disyllable 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 DISYLLABLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Syllable

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. For example, the word water is composed of two syllables: wa and ter. A syllable is typically made up of a syllable nucleus with optional initial and final margins. Syllables are often considered the phonological "building blocks" of words. They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic meter and its stress patterns. Syllabic writing began several hundred years before the first letters. The earliest recorded syllables are on tablets written around 2800 BC in the Sumerian city of Ur. This shift from pictograms to syllables has been called "the most important advance in the history of writing". A word that consists of a single syllable is called a monosyllable. Similar terms include disyllable for a word of two syllables; trisyllable for a word of three syllables; and polysyllable, which may refer either to a word of more than three syllables or to any word of more than one syllable.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DISYLLABLE


assimilable
əˈsɪmɪləbəl
available
əˈveɪləbəl
bailable
ˈbeɪləbəl
decasyllable
ˈdɛkəˌsɪləbəl
dissyllable
dɪˈsɪləbəl
dodecasyllable
ˌdəʊdɛkəˈsɪləbəl
hendecasyllable
ˈhɛndɛkəˌsɪləbəl
irreconcilable
ɪˈrɛkənˌsaɪləbəl
monosyllable
ˈmɒnəˌsɪləbəl
octosyllable
ˈɒktəˌsɪləbəl
polysyllable
ˈpɒlɪˌsɪləbəl
quadrisyllable
ˈkwɒdrɪˌsɪləbəl
refillable
riːˈfɪləbəl
resaleable
riːˈseɪləbəl
saleable
ˈseɪləbəl
scalable
ˈskeɪləbəl
syllable
ˈsɪləbəl
tetrasyllable
ˌtɛtrəˈsɪləbəl
trisyllable
traɪˈsɪləbəl
unavailable
ˌʌnəˈveɪləbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DISYLLABLE

disulphuret
disulphuric acid
disunion
disunionist
disunite
disunited
disunities
disunity
disusage
disuse
disused
disutilities
disutility
disvalue
disvouch
disworship
disyllabic
disyllabify
disyllabism
disyoke

WORDS THAT END LIKE DISYLLABLE

able
articulable
billable
calculable
concealable
controllable
fillable
in words of one syllable
incalculable
inviolable
manipulable
peelable
recyclable
regulable
resealable
rollable
scrollable
sellable
semblable
uncontrollable
unsellable

Synonyms and antonyms of disyllable in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «disyllable» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DISYLLABLE

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

Translator English - Chinese

双音节
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

disyllable
570 millions of speakers

English

disyllable
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

disyllable
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

disyllable
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

disyllable
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dissílabos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

disyllabism
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

disyllable
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Disyllabism
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

disyllable
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

disyllable
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

disyllable
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Disyllabism
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

song tiết
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

disyllabism
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विपर्यास
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

disyllabism
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

disillabo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

disyllable
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

disyllable
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

disyllable
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

disyllable
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

disyllable
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

disyllable
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

disyllable
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of disyllable

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DISYLLABLE»

The term «disyllable» is used very little and occupies the 182.780 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of disyllable
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «disyllable».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DISYLLABLE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «disyllable» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «disyllable» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISYLLABLE»

Discover the use of disyllable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to disyllable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Copulae in the Arabic Noun Phrase: A Unified Analysis of ...
(1964) Other remarks .5 — C V C 0v C — Monosyllable Stressed (no phonol. reduction) .6 — C V C V C — Disyllable — .7 — C V: C V C — Disyllable .7 — C ay\w C V C — Disyllable .8 — C V C V: C — Disyllable .8 — C V C ay C — Disyllable ...
Francesco Grande, 2013
2
An Introduction to the Study of Medieval Latin Versification
... 19 eiiangelium, 25 Euphemia, 12 Eiisebia, 25 Eiitropius, 25 ex accented, 22 exclamo, 12 exempldr-det, 18 ex-partu-ius, 18 exsul-cor, 18 ex-v/, 16 fesanus = vesanus, 51 /iiiej, 6 /icfei, 6 /ic?ei disyllable, 137 /ieri disyllable, 23 filidlus, 4 /oris,  ...
Dag Norberg, Jan Ziółkowski, 2004
3
The Metre of Old Saxon Poetry: The Remaking of Alliterative ...
On an alternative conceptualisation, Kaluza's Law was originally conditioned by the moraic value of the second syllable of a disyllable (Fulk 1992; Suzuki 1995b). In the contexts specified above, resolution was suspended from operation if and ...
誠一·鈴木, 2004
4
The Metrical Organization of Beowulf: Prototype and Isomorphism
position with which a resolvable disyllable gets associated is penultimate. Returning to the correlation between Kaluza's Law and suspension of resolution, the sequence pre-OE *-VCV- to the exclusion of pre-OE *-VCi/u- is employed exactly ...
Seiichi Suzuki, 1996
5
Innovations in Applied Artificial Intelligence: 17th ...
Odds in Favor of the Inner-spacing of a Disyllable. An automatic word-spacing system based only on a word probability cannot resolve the data sparseness problem. Our system, thus, provides the inner-spacing probability of a disyllable.
Bob Orchard, Chunsheng Yang, Ali Moonis, 2004
6
Natural Phonology: The State of the Art
2) On the other hand, the need for distinctiveness favors the types which are richer in information: the closed syllable and the polysyllabic word (at least a disyllable). 3) The need for phonotactic optimization demands open syllables, because ...
Bernhard Hurch, Richard A. Rhodes, 1996
7
Computer, Intelligent Computing and Education Technology
Qinghai People Tibetan culture Total Monosyllable 437 659 1326 721 Disyllable 695 191 2102 1037 Three-syllable 43 19 108 66 Four syllable and above 42 7 56 47 Average 1.75 1.29 1.69 1.70 90%, referring to Tibetan culture net using ...
Hsiang-Chuan Liu, Wen-Pei Sung, Wenli Yao, 2014
8
Natural Language Processing – IJCNLP 2004: First ...
k:1 The Ofl of a given disyllable at both-side of the candidate km word boundary, that is OfI((x,y)k), is estimated by the rate ... of the disyllable, [i.e. p((x#y),,)], compared to the rate of no-irrner-spacing probability [i.e. 1- p((x#y)k), that is P((xy ),,)]: ...
Keh-Yih Su, Jun'ichi Tsujii, Jong-Hyeok Lee, 2005
9
Monosyllables: From Phonology to Typology
However, the disyllable is now fully lexical, and refers to any type of egg, not simply chicken eggs: 'cane egg' is /Mbæ.miLæ.ʁv/ (/Mbæ.mi/ 'cane'). The words for 'calf', 'mare' and 'stallion' in Yongning Na illustrate different stages along the ...
Thomas Stolz, Nicole Nau, Cornelia Stroh, 2012
10
Saami Linguistics
... 154, 168, 169, 171-184, 187, 189-194 bisyllabic, see disyllable disyllabic, see disyllable disyllable, see disyllable extrasyllabic, 173 intersyllabic, 192 monosyllabic, see monosyllabic polysyllabic, see polysyllabic syllabic, 172-183, 189-191, ...
Ida Toivonen, Diane Carlita Nelson, 2007

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISYLLABLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term disyllable is used in the context of the following news items.
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Fiction Friday: An Excerpt from the First Novel in English By a Black …
It was only after some moments that with a supreme effort she could utter the short disyllable, tau (that is, a lion). 'Where?' asked Ra-Thaga. «Books LIVE, Jun 15»
2
Language study offers new twist on mind-​​body connection
In the experiment, participants were presented with an auditory stimulus—either a monosyllable or disyllable, for example “blif” or “belif”—and ... «News@Northeastern, Feb 15»
3
Where Safeway Fears to Tread
When we are quiet, the only sounds are the disyllable clop of a shoed horse and the crunch of the wheels. “Suh-weeeeet peeeAAYCH- es! «Pacific Standard, Jan 15»
4
How much really gets lost in translation?
... a look tells us that the balance of the monosyllable against the disyllable, what we might call the echt sprezzatura of the original, isn't there.). «New Yorker, May 14»
5
Quiz: How middle-class is your party?
It becomes a clipped little disyllable — escaping the mouth almost regretfully, the closure of the vowels expressing the sense of a tricky social ... «The Times, Dec 13»
6
Meditations on Freedom
Sadly, most politicos haven't the foggiest what the overused disyllable actually means. In imitation of the "proverbial" style of my mentor in his ... «Catholic Online, Sep 11»

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