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Elision in a sentence

Elision meaning

  1. The deliberate omission of something.
  2. The omission of a letter or syllable between two words or inside a word; sometimes marked with an apostrophe.

Synonyms of Elision

omission deletion exception exclusion

Related words

Other words often associated with Elision or its synonyms:

redaction representative mistake excision example excommunication proscription disregard mutation situation expulsion fault

Using Elision

  • The main meaning on this page is: The deliberate omission of something. | The omission of a letter or syllable between two words or inside a word; sometimes marked with an apostrophe.
  • Useful related words include: omission, deletion, exception, exclusion.
  • In the example corpus, elision often appears in combinations such as: elision is, the elision, elision of.

Context around Elision

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 8 start, 5 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

latin 1× exact 1× elegant 1× allow 1× denote 1× complete 1× language 1×

Often after:

sometimes 2× across 1×

Sentence patterns with Elision

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

allows an elision across the 1× but allow elision of the 1× dialect the elision was so 1× elision also occurred 1× elision is the 1× finnic language elision has occurred 1× form of elision sometimes occurred 1× further the elision of a 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

catullus for example 1× elision also occurred 1× elision is the 1× in standard māori 1× that exact elision 1× the first class 1×

Common sentence endings:

a final vowel 1× a relaxed pronunciation 1× expect the opposite 1× finnish maja majahan 1× narratives churning today 1× of final sounds 1×

Words around Elision

Just before it in the word index:

elisio 2 elishi 2 elisheva 3 elisha 76 elish 2 eliseo 8

Just after it in the word index:

elisir 4 elison 2 elissa 42 elista 2 elit 4 elita 4

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaon 19 abbv 19 abdalla 19 abdirahman 19 abdulmalik 19 abhimanyu 19

Corpus analysis for Elision

  • In this selection, "elision" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, latin, exact, elegant, sometimes and across stand out and add context to how "elision" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include allows an elision across the and but allow elision of the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "elision" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with elision

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

That exact elision is at work in the Oscar narratives churning today. (12 words)

In standard Māori, Wakatipu would have been rendered Whakatipua, showing further the elision of a final vowel. (17 words)

The Post reports this elision was due to Hilsenrath’s fear the scene appeared to absolve the German people. (19 words)

Longer example sentences

Elision also occurred in Ancient Greek but in that language it is shown in writing by the vowel in question being replaced by an apostrophe, whereas in Latin elision is not indicated at all in the orthography, but can be deduced from the verse form. (45 words)

Various rules of elision sometimes prevent a grammatical syllable from making a full syllable, and certain other lengthening and shortening rules (such as correption ) can create long or short syllables in contexts where one would expect the opposite. (38 words)

With respect to the Proto-Finnic language, elision has occurred; thus, the actual case marker may be absent, but the stem is changed, cf. maja – majja and the Ostrobothnia dialect of Finnish maja – majahan. (34 words)

Example sentences (15)

Elision also occurred in Ancient Greek but in that language it is shown in writing by the vowel in question being replaced by an apostrophe, whereas in Latin elision is not indicated at all in the orthography, but can be deduced from the verse form.

That exact elision is at work in the Oscar narratives churning today.

One of the first things you notice about Anna Wiener’s Silicon Valley memoir is the author’s elegant elision.

The Post reports this elision was due to Hilsenrath’s fear the scene appeared to absolve the German people.

Yet the most common and most revealing, because most insulting, misuse of language remains the elision in the conservative English mind between England, Britain and the UK.

Catullus, for example, allows an elision across the caesura in 18 cases, a rare flaw in the later poets (Ovid, for example, never does this).

Elision is the loss of unstressed sounds, aphaeresis the loss of initial sounds, syncope is the loss of medial sounds, and apocope is the loss of final sounds.

In standard Māori, Wakatipu would have been rendered Whakatipua, showing further the elision of a final vowel.

Advertentie

The first class of consonant-stem words largely resemble e-stems, but allow elision of the stem vowel in the partitive singular, and for certain words, plural genitive.

The formal way to denote elision in Swedish is by using colon, e.g. S:t Erik for Sankt Erik which is rarely spelled out in full.

This dialect is characterized by merging or complete elision of syllables, considered by speakers from other regions to be a "relaxed" pronunciation.

Though final vowels existed in Kaitahu dialect, the elision was so nearly complete that pākehā recorders often omitted them entirely.

Various rules of elision sometimes prevent a grammatical syllable from making a full syllable, and certain other lengthening and shortening rules (such as correption ) can create long or short syllables in contexts where one would expect the opposite.

When the second word was est or et, a different form of elision sometimes occurred ( prodelision ): the vowel of the preceding word was retained and the e was elided instead.

With respect to the Proto-Finnic language, elision has occurred; thus, the actual case marker may be absent, but the stem is changed, cf. maja – majja and the Ostrobothnia dialect of Finnish maja – majahan.

Advertentie

Common combinations with elision

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "elision" in a sentence?
An example: "Elision also occurred in Ancient Greek but in that language it is shown in writing by the vowel in question being replaced by an apostrophe, whereas in Latin elision is not indicated at all in the orthography, but can be deduced from the verse form." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "elision" from authentic English texts.
What does "elision" mean?
Elision means: The deliberate omission of something.
What are synonyms of "elision"?
Common synonyms of "elision" include: omission, deletion, exception, exclusion.
How many example sentences with "elision" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "elision", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.