A spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain.

synoniemen: deliquium, faint, swoon.

Roget 572: conciseness etc. adj.; brevity, the soul of wit," laconism^†; Tacitus; ellipsis; syncope; abridgment etc. (shortening) 201; compression etc. 195; epitome etc. 596; monostich^†; brunch word, portmanteau word.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 688: fatigue; weariness etc. 841; yawning, drowsiness etc. 683; lassitude, tiredness, fatigation^†, exhaustion; sweat; dyspnoea.    anhelation, shortness of breath; faintness; collapse, prostration, swoon, fainting, deliquium [Lat.], syncope, lipothymy^†; goneness^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 158: impotence; inability, disability; disablement, impuissance, imbecility; incapacity, incapability; inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity^†; indocility^†; invalidity, disqualification; inefficiency, wastefulness.    telum imbelle [Lat.], brutum fulmen [Lat.], blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil [Lat.], dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy; paper tiger; Quaker gun.    inefficacy etc. (inutility) 645^†; failure etc. 732.    helplessness etc. adj.; prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration^†, deliquium [Lat.], collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition; emasculation, orchiotomy [Med.], orchotomy [Med.].    cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, pussycat, wimp, mollycoddle; eunuch.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: bezwijming
Pools: omdlenie, zasłabnięcie, zemdlenie

phonology The loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle').

synoniem: syncopation.

Roget 413: melody, rhythm, measure; rhyme etc. (poetry) 597.    pitch, timbre, intonation, tone.    scale, gamut; diapason; diatonic chromatic scale^†, enharmonic scale^†; key, clef, chords.    modulation, temperament, syncope, syncopation, preparation, suspension, resolution.    staff, stave, line, space, brace; bar, rest; appoggiato^†, appoggiatura^†; acciaccatura^†.    note, musical note, notes of a scale; sharp, flat, natural; high note etc. (shrillness) 410; low note etc. 408; interval; semitone; second, third, fourth &c.; diatessaron^†.    breve, semibreve [Mus.], minim, crotchet, quaver; semiquaver, demisemiquaver, hemidemisemiquaver; sustained note, drone, burden.    tonic; key note, leading note, fundamental note; supertonic^†, mediant^†, dominant; submediant^†, subdominant^†; octave, tetrachord^†; major key, minor key, major scale, minor scale, major mode, minor mode; passage, phrase.    concord, harmony; emmeleia^†; unison, unisonance^†; chime, homophony; euphony, euphonism^†; tonality; consonance; consent; part.    [Science of harmony] harmony, harmonics; thorough-bass, fundamental-bass; counterpoint; faburden^†.    piece of music etc. 415 [Fr.]; composer, harmonist^†, contrapuntist (musician) 416.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: syncope
Pools: synkopa