"Ectasis" is a word in ENGLISH
The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.
If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away.
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An Irish priest and a Rabbi get into a car accident. They both get out of their cars and stumble over to the side of the road. The Rabbi says, "Oy vey! What a wreck!" The priest asks him, "Are you all right, Rabbi?" The Rabbi responds, "Just a little shaken." The priest pulls a flask of whiskey from his coat and says, "Here, drink some of this it will calm your nerves." The Rabbi takes the flask and drinks it down and says, "Well, what are we going to tell the police?" "Well," the priest says, "I don't know what your aft' to be tellin' them. But I'll be tellin' them I wasn't the one drinkin'."
A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one …
Read the complete definitionA vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
Read the complete definitionHaving the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished; -- said of birds.
Read the complete definitionA tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling …
Read the complete definitionTo extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch.
Read the complete definitionTo extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.
Read the complete definitionA lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.
Read the complete definitionTo utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
Read the complete definitionA lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length.
Read the complete definitionTo lengthen out; to prolong.
Read the complete definitionTo lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.
Read the complete definitionThat which lengthens out; continuation.
Read the complete definitionThe act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension.
Read the complete definitionTo lengthen.
Read the complete definitionTo enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to …
Read the complete definitionA lengthened receptacle, bearing the stamens and carpels in a conspicuous manner.
Read the complete definitionLong continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time; as, a great while; a great interval.
Read the complete definitionIn Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is …
Read the complete definitionSomething added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a …
Read the complete definitionTo augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; …
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