syncopate
pronunciation
How to pronounce syncopate in British English:
UK ['sɪŋkəpeɪt]
How to pronounce syncopate in American English:
US ['sɪŋkəˌpeɪt]
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- Verb:
- omit a sound or letter in a word
- modify the rhythm by stressing or accenting a weak beat
Word Origin
- syncopate (v.)
- c. 1600, "shorten words by omitting syllables or letters in the middle," back-formation from syncopation, or else from Late Latin syncopatus, past participle of syncopare "to shorten," also "to faint away, to swoon," from Late Latin syncope (see syncope). Musical sense is from 1660s. Related: Syncopated; syncopating.
Example
- 1. Dolphins and whales often syncopate our swimming with a rhythm of in-breath and out-breath as a pod .
- 2. When one inhales , one should syncopate their breath of life with both physical and nonphysical counterparts breathing together in divine timing .
- 3. Humans likewise are not to direct time but to syncopate to time as it is pulsed upon a solar or planetary basis .
- 4. Now let us syncopate the rhythm of the movement of our molecules and energy field to the rotation of the molecules of earth .
- 5. As you learn to syncopate the rotation of one 's own molecules to the sounds of the crickets , one will come into divine timing .