Ellipsis vs Syncope - What's the difference?
ellipsis | syncope |
(typography) A mark consisting of three periods, historically with spaces in between, before, and after them “ . . . ”, nowadays a single character “” Ellipses are used to indicate that words have been omitted in a text or that they are missing or illegible.
* 2006 , Danielle Corsetto, ''
(grammar, rhetoric) The omission of a grammatically required word or phrase that can be inferred.
(film) The omission of scenes in a film that do not advance the plot.
* 2002 , David Blanke, ''
A loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon.
* 1973 Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise
(prosody, phonology) The absence of a sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't or the pronunciation of placenames in -cester (e.g. Leicester) as -ster.
A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.
As a noun ellipsis
is (typography) a mark consisting of three periods, historically with spaces in between, before, and after them “ ”, nowadays a single character “” ellipses are used to indicate that words have been omitted in a text or that they are missing or illegible.As a verb syncope is
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English
(wikipedia ellipsis)Noun
(ellipses) {{examples-right, sense=grammar, examples= * He is faster than she. (Here, a trailing “is fast” is omitted, grammatically required, and implied.) * She went home, so I did, too.'' (''Did stands for “went home”.) }}Girls with Slingshots: 114
- CARD: Hey Baby. Thanks for the … last night. Love you!
- HAZEL: Wow. I’ve never despised an ellipsis so much in my life.
The 1910s: 219
- It was now possible for writers and directors to cut scenes that did not further the plot; called "ellipses " by filmmakers.
Synonyms
* (typography indicating omission) dot dot dotsyncope
English
(wikipedia syncope)Noun
(en noun)- the rapidly-whitening face, the miserable fixed smile, meant a syncope within the next few bars.