apostrophe
/əˈpɒstrəfi/
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American sound/əˈpɒstrəfi/
əˈpɒstrəfi
- Syllables
- 4 syllables
- Stress
- 2nd syllable stress
- Vowel
- Schwa vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
ə - ˈpɒstrəfi -> apostrophe
Myanmar meaning
(n) အက္ခရာ၊ ကိန်းဂဏန်းတို့ကို ချန်လှပ် ရေးသားထားကြောင်း ပြသရန်၊ နာမ်တို့၌ ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှု ပြသရန်နှင့် ဗျည်း၊ သရအက္ခရာတို့၌ ဗဟုဝုစ်ကိန်းပြရန် အသုံးပြုသော သင်္ကေတ။
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apostrophe /ǝ'pɒstrǝfi/ n
အက္ခရာ၊ ကိန်းဂဏန်းတို့ကို ချန်လှပ် ရေးသားထားကြောင်း ပြသရန်၊ နာမ်တို့၌ ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှု ပြသရန်နှင့် ဗျည်း၊ သရအက္ခရာတို့၌ ဗဟုဝုစ်ကိန်းပြရန် အသုံးပြုသော (…') သင်္ကေတ။ as in can't for cannot, I'm for I am, '76 for 1976 ❍ boy's, boys' ❍ There are two l's in 'bell'.
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Synonyms
adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe, antithesis, aposiopesis, aside, association of ideas, asyndeton, bathos, chain of thought, communication that is not meant literally; stylist, comparison, conceit, deflection, departure, detour, deviation, deviation; straying, device, difference, digression, discursion, divagation, divergence, divergency, diversion, drifting, echoism, ellipsis, episode, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, excursion, excursus, expression, flourish, flower, footnote, free association, hyperbole, image, imagery, incident, inner monologue, interior monologue, irony, irrelevancy, litotes, malapropism, manner of speaking, metaphor, metonymy, mind mapping, note, obiter dictum, onomatopoeia, ornament, oxymoron, parable, paradox, parallel, parenthesis, personification, proteron, rambling, rhetoric, sarcasm, satire, simile, synecdoche, tangent, train of thought, trope, tropology, turn of phrase, understatement, variation, wandering, way of speaking, word association, word painting
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adumbrationallegoryalliterationallusionanalogueanalogyanaphoraanticlimaxantistropheantithesisaposiopesisasideassociation of ideasasyndetonbathoschain of thoughtcommunication that is not meant literally; stylistcomparisonconceitdeflectiondeparturedetourdeviationdeviation; strayingdevicedifferencedigressiondiscursion
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