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syncopate

[ sing-kuh-peyt, sin- ]

verb (used with object)

syncopated, syncopating.
  1. Music.
    1. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented.
    2. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
  2. Grammar. to contract (a word) by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in reducing Gloucester to Gloster.


syncopate

/ ˈɪŋəˌɪ /

verb

  1. music to modify or treat (a beat, rhythm, note, etc) by syncopation
  2. to shorten (a word) by omitting sounds or letters from the middle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԳˌ貹ٴǰ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • c·貹tǰ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of syncopate1

First recorded in 1600–10; Medieval Latin ԳDZٳܲ (past participle of ԳDZ “to shorten by syncope”); syncope, -ate 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of syncopate1

C17: from Medieval Latin ԳDZ to omit a letter or syllable, from Late Latin syncopa syncope
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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.

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Eva Slater’s 1954 “Galaxy” insets a syncopated network of painted forms within a wooden panel, merging optical motion with material stasis.

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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.

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Each one’s momentary glow pulses alive and fades in syncopated rhythm with the drowsy croaks of bullfrogs.

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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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