Elision

Definitions: Elision

Elision

Noun

1. Omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next).

2. A deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news".

Date "elision" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	The running together of pairs of numbers or of words. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

It's the rule which makes a letter disappear and be replaced by the character ' (apostrophe) to an easier pronunciation.

Example:

For a masculine word, the article normally preceding is 'le' but if the word begins by a vowel, the 'e' of the article disappears like in this French sentence:

L'avion décolle.

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Synonyms: Elision

Synonyms: exception (n), exclusion (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disjunction	Separation; parting; Verb: circumcision; detachment, segregation; divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption; elision; caesura, break, fracture,
Shortness	Elision, ellipsis; conciseness; (in style).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Elision

English words defined with "elision": Ecthlipsis. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Elision" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (elision), Swedish (elision).

Domain	Title
Books	Black Markets White Boyfriends and Other Acts of Elision (reference) Orthography in Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama: A Study of Colloquial Contractions Elision Prosody and Punctuation (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Elision" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Elision" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	24	71,196

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "elision"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		apostrofim. (various references)

Arabic		‏حذف (cancel, cancellation, castrate, delete, edit, elide, elimination, miss out, omission, omit, retrench, skip, write off), ‏ترخيم (contraction), ‏إدغام (diphthong). (various references)

Bulgarian		елизия. (various references)

Czech		elize. (various references)

Danish		sammentrækning (contraction, striction). (various references)

Dutch		afkapping. (various references)

Esperanto		elizio. (various references)

Finnish		elisio. (various references)

French		élision. (various references)

German		elision. (various references)

Greek		έκθλιψη (crushing, expression, pressing, treading). (various references)

Hungarian		hangzókihagyás. (various references)

Italian		elisione. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		転音 (euphonic change of pronunciation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		て�"お�" (blessings of heaven, blessings of nature, divination's luckiest day, euphonic change of pronunciation, favour of emperor). (various references)

Manx		boggaghey (aspirate, dissolve, ease, elide, macerate, maceration, moisten, push off, relax, relaxation, soften, steep, tone down), baih (drown, elide, flood, inundation, saturate, submerge, submersion), baighey (drown, elide, invest). (various references)

Pig Latin		elisionay.(various references)

Portuguese		elisão (elite), eliminador (eraser). (various references)

Romanian		eliziune. (various references)

Russian		элизия. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		elizija. (various references)

Spanish		elisión (elite). (various references)

Swedish		elision. (various references)

Thai		การตั�"ออก (คำทางการ). (various references)

Turkish		söylenişte bir sesin çıkarılması. (various references)

Ukranian		елізія, припинення (break up, bust up, cancellation, cease, cessation, delay, discontinuance, discontinuation, shutdown, stop, stopping, surcease, termination). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "elision": elisions. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Elision" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eclosion, Edizioni, Efisio, eliasian, Eligio, eliseon, elisian, Elison, Eliston, Elizondo, ellisian, ellision, ellison, elysion, emision, Emison, exision, ilwiiin, leasion, leision, lewisia, lision, Serlison. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: isoline, lionise.
	Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-n-o-s"
	-1 letter: eloins, insole, ionise, lesion, oleins, sileni.
	-2 letters: eloin, enols, eosin, lenis, lenos, liens, lines, linos, lions, loins, nisei, noels, noils, noise, olein, solei.
	-3 letters: enol, eons, ions, isle, leis, leno, lens, lien, lies, line, lino, lins, lion, loin, lone, lose, nils, nisi, noel, noes, noil, nose, oils, oles, ones, silo, sine, sloe, soil, sole, soli, sone.
	-4 letters: els, ens, eon, ins, ion, lei, lie, lin, lis, nil, nos, oes, oil, ole, one, ons, ose, sei, sel, sen, sin, sol, son.
	-5 letters: el, en, es, in, is, li, lo, ne, no, oe, on, os, si, so.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-i-l-n-o-s"
	+1 letter: elisions, isocline, isolines, lionised, lioniser, lionises, lionizes, oiliness, olivines, silicone.
	+2 letters: alimonies, colicines, diolefins, eledoisin, epsilonic, isoclines, lenitions, ligroines, limonites, limousine, lionisers, lionizers, obelising, picolines, religions, silicones, silkoline, tolidines.
	+3 letters: antilogies, celloidins, clonidines, creolising, crinolines, decillions, decisional, despoiling, eledoisins, eosinophil, epilations, eulogising, evildoings, excisional, inflexions, insociable, isoleucine, kaolinites, kolinskies, lanosities, lentissimo, licentious, lidocaines, limousines, lineations, lionfishes, melodising, moniliases, neophilias, niccolites, nobilities, nodalities, novelising, novelistic, oilinesses, oinologies, olivenites, palimonies, quinolines, relictions, seignorial, septillion, sextillion, silkolines, sinologies, soldiering, solecising, solecizing, television, toluidines, tonalities, triskelion, vermilions, visionless.
	+4 letters: actinolites, alienations, atonalities, bidonvilles, biliousness, bimonthlies, bisectional, centillions, cinquefoils, cloistering, clonicities, colchicines, conciliates, consigliere, consiglieri, demolishing, demolitions, depilations, depolishing, dimensional, disboweling, dispeopling, disrelation, ebullitions, eliminators, eluviations, eosinophils, epilimnions, etiolations, fissionable, gadolinites, ganglioside, gleizations, guillotines, iconologies, inflections, ingeniously, insertional, intensional, inviolacies, irreligions, isoleucines, kinesiology, legionaries, legislation, leucocidins, levigations, levitations, liberations, limnologies, lipogenesis, literations, longevities, meridionals, microclines, millisecond, nationalise, neologistic, neophiliacs, nonfamilies, normalities, orientalism, orientalist, pollinizers, previsional, rationalise, regionalism, regionalist, religionist, repolishing, septillions, sextillions, siliconized, silverpoint, soldierings, solemnified, solemnifies, solemnities, solemnizing, stilettoing, televisions, testimonial, tortellinis, triskelions, unreligious, unsolicited, vainglories, vermillions.
	+5 letters: aerosolizing, allegorising, alleviations, ambitionless, aneuploidies, antinovelist, billionaires, bolshevizing, bowdlerising, chlorinities, colonializes, compliancies, craniologies, declinations, defoliations, deglutitions, delineations, depositional, derelictions, desalination, despoliation, diagonalizes, digressional, dilatoriness, disbowelling, disjointedly, disrelations, elicitations, eliminations, elocutionist, elucidations, elutriations, emotionalism, emotionalist, eosinophilia, eosinophilic, equinoctials, evolutionism, evolutionist, exclusionist, exfoliations, explications, expositional, ferrosilicon, fibrinolyses, fictionalise, fissionables, frictionless, frontalities, gangliosides, griseofulvin, iconolatries, ignobilities, illusoriness, immunologies, impoliteness, inappositely, inconclusive, indigenously, indissoluble, indocilities, infectiously, infelicitous, infomercials, inhospitable, insolubilize, insolvencies, ironicalness, irresolution, isoprenaline, lectionaries, legionnaires, legislations, licentiously, lipoproteins, luminiferous, luminosities, lysogenicity, lysogenising, lysogenizing, lysolecithin, maledictions, meliorations, millionaires, milliseconds, mineralogies, mineralogist, misemploying, misenrolling, nationalised, nationalises, nationalizes, nebulosities, necrophilias, necrophilism, neorealistic, neurofibrils, nonlibraries, nonrealistic, nonreligious, nonutilities, notabilities, obligingness, oligopsonies, omnisciently, orientalisms, orientalists, orientalizes, overslipping, perniciously, pilocarpines, polymerising, polyneuritis, prelibations, prolificness, rationalised, rationalises, rationalizes, realizations, redissolving, regionalisms, regionalists, regionalizes, reinflations, relationship, religionists, religionless, replications, retaliations, saponifiable, sectionalism, selectionist, semicolonial, semicolonies, sexdecillion, silhouetting, silverpoints, solemnifying, solitariness, speciational, supercoiling, testimonials, theologising, undecillions, unillusioned, unmoralities, unsocialized, valedictions, ventilations, vesiculation, zillionaires.
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