- Boring part of stable tack
- Boring piece of computer information
- Comedian’s routine
- Computer memory unit
- Fragment
- Horse’s mouthpiece
- Mouthpiece of a bridle
- A bit of serenity, apparently
- apportionment
- Assemble, ... together
- Bit
- Bit of peace, it’s said
- Coin
- Component
- A dried bulb
- A small bulb
- Bulb segment
- Garlic segment
- Pungent bulb segment
- Pungent spice bud
- Segment of a bulb of garlic
- A little flower
- Bloom segment
- Corolla leaf
- Floral leaf
- Flower leaf
- Flower part
- Flower segment
- A spoken part of a word
- Word segment
- An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary
sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the
voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it
is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more
consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of
the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable.
Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a
pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reenforcement, of
the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to
Pronunciation, /275.
- In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from
the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the
voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken
language.
- A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise
or short; a particle.
- To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to
articulate.