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Meaning of "sylleptic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SYLLEPTIC

sylleptic  [sɪˈleptɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SYLLEPTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sylleptic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SYLLEPTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of sylleptic in the English dictionary

The definition of sylleptic in the dictionary is of or relating to the use of a single sentence construction in which a verb, adjective, etc is made to cover two syntactical functions, as the verb form have in she and they have promised to come.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SYLLEPTIC


antiseptic
ˌæntɪˈsɛptɪk
apocalyptic
əˌpɒkəˈlɪptɪk
aseptic
əˈsɛptɪk
Coptic
ˈkɒptɪk
cryptic
ˈkrɪptɪk
dyspeptic
dɪsˈpɛptɪk
elliptic
ɪˈlɪptɪk
epanaleptic
ɪpˌænəˈleptɪk
epileptic
ˌɛpɪˈlɛptɪk
haptic
ˈhæptɪk
metaleptic
ˌmetəˈleptɪk
optic
ˈɒptɪk
peptic
ˈpɛptɪk
septic
ˈsɛptɪk
skeptic
ˈskɛptɪk
synaptic
sɪˈnæptɪk
synoptic
sɪˈnɒptɪk
triptych
ˈtrɪptɪk
tryptic
ˈtrɪptɪk
uptick
ˈʌptɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SYLLEPTIC

syllabism
syllabize
syllable
syllabogram
syllabography
syllabub
syllabus
Syllabus of Errors
syllepses
syllepsis
sylleptical
sylleptically
syllogisation
syllogise
syllogiser
syllogism
syllogist
syllogistic
syllogistical
syllogistically

WORDS THAT END LIKE SYLLEPTIC

acataleptic
analeptic
antiepileptic
bradypeptic
cataleptic
catheptic
eupeptic
Eurosceptic
fiber optic
fibre optic
narcoleptic
neuroleptic
nympholeptic
panoptic
parableptic
postepileptic
postsynaptic
proleptic
protreptic
sceptic

Synonyms and antonyms of sylleptic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sylleptic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SYLLEPTIC

Find out the translation of sylleptic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sylleptic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sylleptic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

sylleptic
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

siléptico
570 millions of speakers

English

sylleptic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

sylleptic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

sylleptic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

sylleptic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sylleptic
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

sylleptic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sylleptiques
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sylleptic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sylleptic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

sylleptic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

sylleptic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sylleptic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sylleptic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

sylleptic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Sylleptic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sylleptic
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sylleptic
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sylleptic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

sylleptic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sylleptic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

sylleptic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sylleptic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sylleptic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sylleptic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sylleptic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SYLLEPTIC»

The term «sylleptic» is barely ever used and occupies the 196.974 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SYLLEPTIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sylleptic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sylleptic» 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 sylleptic

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SYLLEPTIC»

Discover the use of sylleptic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sylleptic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ecophysiology of Short Rotation Forest Crops
Additional factors separating proleptic from sylleptic branches include the presence of scale leaves and a clear difference in the size and shape of the first leaves to develop on a proleptic branch from subsequent leaves [69]. Sylleptic branches ...
C.P. Mitchell, 1992
2
Molecular Biology of Woody Plants
In the environment where the Fi progeny was tested, P. trichocarpa exhibited an inherently high capacity to produce sylleptic branches, whereas P. deltoides produced few sylleptic branches (Wu I998a). However, of the 64 QTLs identified for ...
S. Mohan Jain, Subhash C. Minocha, 1999
3
The Semantics of Syntax: A Minimalist Approach to Grammar
ing, and local agreement, such as subject-verb agreement: only the former can be sylleptic. Now that we know that on does not allow sylleptic agreement in local Spec-Head relations such as Subject-Verb, we can use this to determine ...
Denis Bouchard, 1995
4
Phytoremediation of Landfill Leachate Using Populus
photosynthetic carbon for tree development (Scarascia-Mugnozza et al., 1999; Dickmann, 2001). Well-developed correlations between sylleptic branching and tree yield have been reported (Wu and Stettler, 1998; Scarascia-Mugnozza et al.,  ...
Jill Annette Zalesny, 2007
5
The Growing Tree
Stem bud Inhibited bud cal climates it is "normal" for the lateral meristems to form syllep- tic shoots. Some fast-growing individuals of species that usually form buds , for instance, birch and cherry, will form sylleptic shoots in temperate climates.
Brayton Fuller Wilson, 1984
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Biology of Populus and Its Implications for Management and ...
Research on carbon allocation and partitioning from sylleptic branches in tree crowns is unique to Populus. The radiotracer studies of Scarascia-Mugnozza ( 1991) that have been reviewed by Hinckley et al. (1989) and Ceulemans (1990)  ...
Reinhard Friedrich Stettler, 1996
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The Face of Nature: Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in ...
For his is what we could call a sylleptic imagination — one always ready to slip from the figurative to the literal, from the conceptual to the physical, and back, in creating a work on flux and the transformation of all forms and bodies. Puns often  ...
Garth Tissol, 1997
8
The Avocado: Botany, Production and Uses
They distinguished between proleptic shoot modules (axillary shoots grow out from dormant buds), which can be vegetative or reproductive and in which nodes were preformed; and sylleptic shoots. In the latter there is contemporaneous ...
Bruce A. Schaffer, B. Nigel Wolstenholme, Antony William Whiley, 2013
9
How Picturebooks Work
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Maria Nikolajeva, Carole Scott, 2006
10
Annual Plant Reviews, Polarity in Plants
Morphologically, the eight types of root would be: 1 ± Sylleptic; 2 ± Proleptic; 3 ± Sylleptic adventitious; 4 ± Proleptic adventitious; 5 ± Sylleptic adventive; 6 ± Proleptic adventive; 7 ± Induced sylleptic adventitious; 8 ± Induced proleptic ...
Keith Lindsey, 2009

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SYLLEPTIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sylleptic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Biotechnical procedure leads to increased biomass production from …
... this study was protected by patent (P201131186: Method for increasing or decreasing the development of sylleptic or proleptic branching in a ligneous plant). «Nanowerk, Sep 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Sylleptic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/sylleptic>. Apr 2024 ».
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