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whelked
adjective
ridged like the shell of a snail: a whelked horn.
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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 ….
whelked
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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蝉辞耻辫莽辞苍
noun
a slight trace, as of a particular taste or flavor.
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To the Frenchless, 蝉辞耻辫莽辞苍 looks as if it means 鈥渟oupspoon.鈥� In fact 蝉辞耻辫莽辞苍 means 鈥渁 hint, trace,鈥� from Old French 蝉辞耻辫别莽辞苍, 蝉辞耻蝉辫别莽辞苍, literally 鈥渟uspicion, anxious worry,鈥� from Late Latin 蝉耻蝉辫别肠迟颈艒苍– (stem of 蝉耻蝉辫别肠迟颈艒), for Latin 蝉耻蝉辫墨肠颈艒苍– 鈥渄istrust, mistrust, suspicion.鈥� 厂辞耻辫莽辞苍 entered English in the 18th century.
how is 蝉辞耻辫莽辞苍 used?
First, she repeated it rapturously in an enthusiastic contralto with a 蝉辞耻辫莽辞苍 of Southern accent …听
big summer movies, even the successful ones, are designed to be forgettable, passing through our system at precisely the same rate as a pint of Pepsi. Nothing is left but fizzing nerve ends and a sugary 蝉辞耻辫莽辞苍 of rot.
蝉辞耻辫莽辞苍