Definitions for scansions

scansions scan·sion

Spelling: [skan-shuh n]
IPA: /ˈskæn ʃən/

Scansions is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 200 anagrams from letters in scansions (acinnosss).

Definitions for scansions

noun

  1. the metrical analysis of verse. The usual marks for scansion are ˘ for a short or unaccented syllable, ¯ or · for a long or accented syllable, ^ for a rest, | for a foot division, and ‖ for a caesura or pause.
  2. the metrical analysis of verse. The usual marks for scansion are ˘ for a short or unaccented syllable, ¯ or · for a long or accented syllable, ^ for a rest, | for a foot division, and ‖ for a caesura or pause.

Origin of scansions

1645-55; Late Latin scānsiōn- (stem of scānsiō), Latin: a climbing, equivalent to scāns(us) (past participle of scandere to climb) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for scansions

It makes no difference, either to the sense or the scansion.

Altered to Sim-e-kin by Tyrwhitt, for the scansion; but cf. ll.

This syllable, therefore, gives the cue to the scansion of the whole line.

It is either hexameter or pentameter, according to the scansion?

I wanted to read it aloud to you and get in my practice on scansion that way.

Morris inserts ben after rakel, to the ruin of the scansion.

For the structure of this verse, see p. 327; the following is a restoration and scansion of the passages in the Bestiary.

Consider the question which of these two systems of scansion is the more accurate and the more convenient.

I shall hold no brief for the good professor's method of scansion.

Words are shoehorned in without much regard for scansion, stress, or tone.

It makes no difference, either to the sense or the scansion.

It is either hexameter or pentameter, according to the scansion?

I wanted to read it aloud to you and get in my practice on scansion that way.

Altered to Sim-e-kin by Tyrwhitt, for the scansion; but cf. ll.

I shall hold no brief for the good professor's method of scansion.

Morris inserts ben after rakel, to the ruin of the scansion.

Consider the question which of these two systems of scansion is the more accurate and the more convenient.

For the structure of this verse, see p. 327; the following is a restoration and scansion of the passages in the Bestiary.

Words are shoehorned in without much regard for scansion, stress, or tone.

This syllable, therefore, gives the cue to the scansion of the whole line.

Word Value for scansions
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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