Word Meanings - CIRCUMFLECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To bend around. 2. To mark with the circumflex accent, as a vowel.

Related words: (words related to CIRCUMFLECT)

• VOWELIZE
  To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.
• ACCENTUALITY
  The quality of being accentual.
• CIRCUMFLEXION
  1. The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form. 2. A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.
• AROUND
  1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. 3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took
• ACCENTUABLE
  Capable of being accented.
• VOWEL
  A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a consonant in
• VOWELISM
  The use of vowels.
• VOWELISH
  Of the nature of a vowel. "The power is always vowelish." B. Jonson.
• ACCENTOR
  One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.
• ACCENTUATION
  Act of accentuating; applications of accent. Specifically
• ACCENTLESS
  Without accent.
• ACCENTUALLY
  In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.
• VOWELED
  Furnished with vowels. Dryden.
• ACCENTUATE
  1. To pronounce with an accent or with accents. 2. To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize. In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated. London Times. 3. To mark with the written accent.
• ACCENT
  Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse. A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure. A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure. The rythmical
• ACCENTUAL
  Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.
• CIRCUMFLEX
  circumflectere, circumflexum, to bend or turn about; circum + 1. A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable. Walker. 2. A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice
• SEMIVOWEL
  A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y. The sign or letter representing such a sound.
• RUN-AROUND
  A whitlow running around the finger nail, but not affecting the bone.
• UNVOWELED
  Having no vowel sounds or signs. Skinner.