Meaning of DACTYL
| Pronunciation: | | 'daktl
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- [n] a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding part in other vertebrates
- [n] a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables
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| | Synonyms: | | digit |
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| | See Also: | | appendage, craniate, extremity, finger, foot, member, metrical foot, metrical unit, nail, phalanx, toe, vertebrate | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dac"tyl\, n. [L. dactylus, Gr. da`ktylos a finger, a
dactyl. Cf. {Digit}.]
1. (Pros.) A poetical foot of three sylables (--- [crescent]
[crescent]), one long followed by two short, or one
accented followed by two unaccented; as, L.
t["e]gm[i^]n[e^], E. mer\b6ciful; -- so called from the
similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a
finger. [Written also {dactyle}.]
2. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A finger or toe; a digit.
(b) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or
crustacean.
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| | Definition: | | Refers to a digit, a finger, or a toe. |
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| | Related Terms: | | accent, accentuation, Alexandrine, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, arsis, bacchius, beat, cadence, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, colon, counterpoint, cretic, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, feminine caesura, foot, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic, jingle, lilt, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus, mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period, proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, quantity, rhythm, spondee, sprung rhythm, stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee |
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