Syncopation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SYNCOPATION in dictionary:

VERB:
• displace the beats or accents in (music or a rhythm) so that strong beats become weak and vice versa
• shorten (a word) by dropping sounds or letters in the middle, as in symbology for symbolology, or Gloster for Gloucester.
NOUN:
• a shift of accent in a musical passage that occurs when a normally weak beat is stressed
• The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.
• The act of syncopating; a peculiar figure of rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one tone the second half of one beat with the first half of the beat which follows.
• (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo\'c\'sle\' for `forecastle\')
• a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
• music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a temporary displacement of the regular metrical accent in music caused typically by stressing the weak beat

Words related to SYNCOPATION

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Words that contain SYNCOPATION

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How to use SYNCOPATION in a sentence

• His progress with shaving brush, shirt, collar and tie was marked by disjointed bars of the newest syncopation whistled with an uncanny precision and fidelity to detail.
• These irregular forms of rhythm are called syncopation.
• The dancing sticks beat the floor in a low, sensuous syncopation that stirred the blood.

Similar words containing SYNCOPA without suffix tion

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