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Part of Speech: Noun
Results: 21
Part of Speech: noun
6.
Not prolonged,
or relatively less prolonged,
in utterance; --
opposed to long,
and applied to vowels
or to syllables.
In English,
the long and short
of the same letter are not,
in most cases,
the long and short
of the same sound;
thus,
the i
in ill is the short
sound,
not of i
in isle,
but of ee
in eel,
and the e
in pet is the short
sound of a
in pate, etc.
See Quantity,
and Guide to Pronunciation, // 22, 30.
Part of Speech: superlative
Part of Speech: verb
Part of Speech: verb transitive
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