English to Irish Meaning of dactyl - dactyl

Dactyl :

dactyl

noun

prosóide, fonn, thomhas

Dactyl :: dactylDactylic :: dactylicDactylics :: dactylicsDactyls :: dactyls

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Definitions of dactyl in English

Noun(1) a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables(2) a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates

Examples of dactyl in English

(1) Southey agrees, however, that the foot before the final trochee should always be a dactyl .(2) His rhythmic faculties drive anthology-pieces like ├ö├ç├┐The Dance├ö├ç├û, whose dactyls skip happily over its line breaks.(3) Thus a pattern consisting of five iambs would be an iambic pentameter; a pattern consisting of six dactyls would be a dactylic hexameter; and so on.(4) My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls .(5) His formula for modern heroic verse, proclaimed up front in the essay, was, in short: more dactyls than trochees, and more trochees than spondees.

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Synonyms

Noun

1. digit ::

dhigit

Different Forms

dactyl, dactylic, dactylics, dactyls

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