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Syncopation vs Syncopate - What's the difference?

syncopation | syncopate |

As a noun syncopation

is the quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter.

As a verb syncopate is

to omit a sound or a letter from a word; to use syncope.

syncopation

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (music) The quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter
  • (phonology) The loss of sounds in the middle of a word.
  • Derived terms

    * syncopational * syncopationally

    syncopate

    English

    Verb

    (syncopat)
  • (linguistics) to omit a sound or a letter from a word; to use syncope
  • (music) to stress or accentuate the weak beat of a rhythm; to use syncopation