dactyl

English - Turkish

Definition of dactyl in English Turkish dictionary

bir şiir ölçüsü

yunan ve latin vezni

(isim) bir şiir ölçüsü

(Tıp) El veya ayak parmağı

Related Terms

dactylic

(Tıp) Se: Dactylar

dactylic

bir uzun iki kısa ölçülü

English - English

Definition of dactyl in English English dictionary

A poetical foot of three syllables (— ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented

{n} a poetical foot or measure, consisting of one long syllable and twoshot ones, a fish

A poetical foot of three sylables (— ⌣ ⌣), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L

A moon of Ida, an asteroid discovered by the Galileo spacecraft It is only about 1 5 km in diameter, and is assumed to be a broken piece of Ida

a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables

(Will) The "smallest of pedants " (Steele: The Tatler )

Digit: toe or finger

A metric foot consisting of one accented syllablefollowed by two unaccented or of one long syllable followed by two short, as in flettery

A finger or toe; a digit

A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented

a repeated sound pattern in poetry, consisting of one long sound followed by two short sounds, as in the word 'carefully' (dactylus, from daktylos (because of the length of the three finger-joints))

A three syllable foot which is accented on the first syllable An example of this would be the word "merrily," which is spoken: MER - ri - ly

- a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

a metrical foot consisting of an accented syllable followed by two unaccented ones / ' ~ ~ / Examples of dactylic words are "comedy" and "higgledy," and of largely dactylic poems Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and Thomas Hood's "The Bridge of Sighs " Longfellow's Evangeline is written in dactylic hexameter, the metre of Homer and of Ovid's Metamorphoses

{i} division of poetry containing an accented syllable before two unaccented syllables

The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean

A metrical foot of three syllables, one long (or stressed) followed by two short (or unstressed), as in happily The dactyl is the reverse of the anapest

tëgm&ibreve;n&ebreve;, E

a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding part in other vertebrates

A three-syllable foot consisting of a heavy stress and two light stresses See meter Examples of words that constitute dactyls include notable, horrible, and parable

A poetic foot or unit consisting of one stressed (or long) syllable followed by two unstressed (or short) syllables

mer\b6ciful; so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger

Related Terms

dactylic

of or consisting of dactyls

dactylic

{a} pertaining to or consisting of dactyls

A dactyl

dactylet

dactylic

of or consisting of dactyls; "dactylic meter"

dactylic

Dactylic meters

dactylic

of or consisting of dactyls; "dactylic meter

dactylic

a dactylic verse

dactylic

of a dactyl

dactylic

Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses

dactylic

A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics

dactylic

{s} of or pertaining to a dactyl (division of poetry with an accented syllable before two unaccented syllables)

dactyls

plural of dactyl

Hyphenation

Dac·tyl

Etymology

[ 'dak-t&l, -"til ] (noun.) 14th century. From Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (daktulos, “a finger”), three bones of the finger corresponding to three syllables.