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elide

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verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But these theories' notions of culturally stable femininity often elide with their concept of a biologically stable individual. ▪ But, at the same time, the question of the diminishing urgency of consumption is elided. ▪ Current ...

Usage examples of elide.

I am like oilcloth, along which everything of this sort elides without penetrating.

Sometimes spelled Cassilde, or the final vowel sometimes elided in spoken language.

And they are all like music, elided music, which is when you slide your voice up and down.

Perry focused in on Ula, who gave the elided camera the startled-doe gaze of one caught in a crime she had momentarily forgotten was illegal, the blankness persisting for only a beat before she flashed the loosest grin of the night, blew the lens a soulful kiss, and scampered nimbly for the house.

I told him the short versionall about the art auction and the Denarians, but I elided over the details afterward, which were none of his chaste business.

Walls, gates and defences rise, parish churchesare built over Saxon villages, medieval commerce packs the streets with wood-beamed houses, and the kaleidoscope of history spins wildly on through coronations, insurrections and disharmonies, mutiny and jubilation eliding past, present and future.

His pre-eminence in the latter faculty gave occasion to some etymologists to ring changes on his name, and to decide that it was derived from Follis Optimus, softened through an Italian medium into Folle Ottimo, contracted poetically into Folleotto, and elided Anglice into Folliott, signifying a firstrate pair of bellows.

Its subject is majesty, not tyranny, and its political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one indivisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

Neither of the operas, however, met the obstacles which blocked the progress of the comedies on which they are founded, because Da Ponte, who wrote the book for Mozart, and Sterbini, who was Rossini's librettist, judiciously and deftly elided the objectionable political element.

I think it far more likely, especially in view of the fact that the persons concerned were highly educated, that we are concerned with telescoped processes, in which habit has caused a great many intermediate terms to be elided or to be passed over so quickly as to escape observation.

There are certain consonants in it which require to be elided or swallowed or swivelled round the glottis, in order to give the name its proper due.

Judging by the number of parentheses he elides, he's been talking to computers that could parse Russian if they felt like it.

With rapture and relief he elides with the larger unit, the glowing mass.