ALL meanings of syncopate
syn·co·pate
S s - verb with object syncopate Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way. 1
- verb with object syncopate Grammar. to contract (a word) by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in reducing Gloucester to Gloster. 1
- transitive verb syncopate music: stress the off-beat 1
- transitive verb syncopate sound, letter: omit 1
- verb syncopate to modify or treat (a beat, rhythm, note, etc) by syncopation 0
- verb syncopate to shorten (a word) by omitting sounds or letters from the middle 0
- verb transitive syncopate to shorten (a word) by syncope 0
- verb transitive syncopate to shift (the regular accent) as by beginning a tone on an unaccented beat and continuing it through the next accented beat, or on the last half of a beat and continuing it through the first half of the following beat 0
- verb transitive syncopate to use such shifted accents in (a musical composition, passage, rhythmic pattern, etc.) 0