Ellipsis Synonyms

ĭ-lĭpsĭs
Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. eclipsis

Words Related to Ellipsis

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Ellipsis Sentence Examples

  • Many sentences begin with a " when " or " on the day when" which seems to hover in the air, so that the commentators are driven to supply a " think of this " or some such ellipsis.

  • And so Mr Hooke found less of the proportion than Kepler of the ellipsis.

  • But, grant I received it afterwards from Mr Hooke, yet have I as great a right to it as to the ellipsis.

  • Breaks in the quotation are indicated by an ellipsis.

  • We use the type system and our treatment of generalized quantifiers in natural language to construct a type-theoretic approach to pronominal anaphora and ellipsis.

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