51吃瓜 of the Day
salute
verb (used with object)
to express respect or praise for; honor; commend.
More about salute
Of the verb and the noun salute, the verb is earlier, appearing in the late 14th century, the noun appearing between 1400 and 1450. The Middle English verb was saluten 鈥渢o greet courteously or respectfully,鈥� from the Latin verb 蝉补濒奴迟腻谤别 鈥渢o greet, hail, salute.鈥� (In older English usage I salute you means 鈥淚 send you respectful greetings.鈥�) 厂补濒奴迟腻谤别 is a derivative of the noun 蝉补濒奴蝉 (inflectional stem 蝉补濒奴迟-) 鈥渉ealth, safety, personal safety.鈥� 厂补濒奴蝉 in its turn is derived from the adjective salvus 鈥渟afe, safe and sound鈥� (Salvus sum in colloquial Latin means 鈥淚鈥檓 all right鈥�).
how is salute used?
Arlington, Va.鈥檚 Boy Scout Troop 164 helped to salute the fallen from that famous Army unit, whose history spans from World War I to the war in Iraq.
DiMaggio attended the post-game ceremony not only to remember Gehrig, his former teammate, but to salute the game’s new Iron Horse.
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whelked
adjective
ridged like the shell of a snail: a whelked horn.
More about whelked
Whelked, 鈥渉aving ridges like the shell of a snail,鈥� is an adjective derived from the noun whelk 鈥渁 large, spiral-shelled, marine gastropod.鈥� Whelk comes from Middle English welk, welke, wilk, wilke, from Old English weoloc, weluc, wiolc, wulloc. The modern spelling whelk, with initial wh-, first appears about 1425 in a cookbook.
how is whelked used?
As I stood here below, methought his eyes Were two full moons; he had a thousand noses, Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea.
Alice puckered her old whelked face into a thousand deeper wrinkles ….
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syncopate
verb (used with object)
to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented.
More about syncopate
Syncopate comes from Late Latin 蝉测苍肠辞辫腻迟耻蝉, the past participle of the verb 蝉测苍肠辞辫腻谤别, a derivative of the noun syncopa or 蝉测苍肠辞辫脓, which has two senses: a grammatical sense 鈥渢he contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as never becoming ne’er,鈥� and a medical sense 鈥渟wooning, fainting away.鈥� Syncopa and 蝉测苍肠辞辫脓 come from the Greek noun 蝉测苍办辞辫岣�, which has the same meanings as the Latin, developments of its basic meaning 鈥渁 cutting up into small pieces.鈥� Syncopate entered English in the early 17th century.
how is syncopate used?
I juxtapose the rhythms, and I聽syncopate聽them to make the piece create the jazz feeling that I’d like to get.
Finding syncopation in jazz is about as difficult as finding water in the ocean. It is the cornerstone of one of the principal sources of jazz rhythm, ragtime melody, so much so that to “rag a melody” and (a decade or so later) to “jazz up a melody” meant, in part, to syncopate it.
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