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Syllable
Syllable
n.
An
elementary
sound
, or a
combination
of
elementary
sounds
,
uttered
together
, or
with
a
single
effort
or
impulse
of
the
voice
,
and
constituting
a
word
or a
part
of a
word
. In
other
terms
, it is a
vowel
or a
diphtong
,
either
by
itself
or
flanked
by
one
or
more
consonants
,
the
whole
produced
by a
single
impulse
or
utterance
.
One
of
the
liquids
, l, m, n,
may
fill
the
place
of a
vowel
in a
syllable
.
Adjoining
syllables
in a
word
or
phrase
need
not
to be
marked
off
by a
pause
,
but
only
by
such
an
abatement
and
renewal
, or
reenforcement
, of
the
stress
as to
give
the
feeling
of
separate
impulses
.
See
Guide
to
Pronunciation
, /
275
.
Syllable
n.
In
writing
and
printing
, a
part
of a
word
,
separated
from
the
rest
,
and
capable
of
being
pronounced
by a
single
impulse
of
the
voice
. It
may
or
may
not
correspond
to a
syllable
in
the
spoken
language
.
Syllable
n.
A
small
part
of a
sentence
or
discourse
;
anything
concise
or
short
; a
particle
.
Syllable
v. t.
To
pronounce
the
syllables
of; to
utter
; to
articulate
.
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