syncopation
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
(phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')
Types & categories
- articulation hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Types & categories
- rhythm hypernym
Related & opposite
- syncopate derivation
Sense 3 noun
music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm
Types & categories
- music hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | syncopate |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | phonology |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | articulation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | syncopate |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | rhythm |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | syncopate |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | music |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | music |