verb

• 1Omit (a sound or syllable) when speaking.

  ‘English speakers often elide the vowel completely’

  More example sentences

  • ‘In words bearing stress on the third last syllable, and in which the penultimate syllable contains a schwa followed by either l or r, there is a tendency for the schwa to be elided.’
  • ‘Unstressed o may be more or less reduced to the value of SCHWA, or elided altogether.’
  • ‘As a result, the coach has Bill as its antecedent (of some sort), hence making it possible for the second elided pronoun, which bears a -occurrence, to be resolved.’

  Synonyms

  leave out, exclude, fail to include, except, shut out, leave off, take out, miss out, miss, fail to mention, pass over, drop, delete, cut, erase, eliminate, elide, expunge, rub out, cross out, strike out, dispense with

• 2Join together; merge.

  ‘whole periods of time are elided into a few seconds of screen time’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Women in film, thus, do not function as signifiers for a signified (a real woman) as sociological critics have assumed, but signifier and signified have been elided into a sign that represents something in the male unconscious.’
  • ‘The close proximity of two ‘L' s’ in al-Ilah caused them to be elided together so that the word became Allah.’
  • ‘In so doing, the visible engagement with genocide becomes elided into the refusal of representation that surrounds the Holocaust.’
  • ‘On Dig Your Own Hole, Beth Orton's looping lament to wasted comedown mornings gradually elided into one of that record's most assertive beats.’
  • ‘The interrupted circle terminates not quite in a point, by which time the green has elided into a dull, irritated red.’
  • ‘This is particularly true because of the way in which the war on terror has elided into preparations for a war against Iraq.’
  • ‘Concern about new human rights requirements elided into the gross inequality whereby he was allowed to pay for his incarceration in a comfortable house, with a security firm of his own choosing.’
  • ‘Blair must have hoped that by the time of the publication of the report the problem of the non-existing weapons of mass destruction would have gone away, been forgotten or mistakenly elided in the public mind with the Hutton Inquiry.’
  • ‘The ‘siege’ in the title refers to the way in which standardization elides the individual speaking mouths and the full resonance of their sounds in favor of convenience.’
  • ‘Omnipotent fantasy may also dissolve a variety of conceptual boundaries that obstruct intimacy by eliding them with the dissolving boundary between pain and pleasure-boundaries of temporality, gender, or generation, for instance.’
  • ‘Misty hindsight has led some to remember Rapido as primarily an indie-based show, perhaps eliding it with DEF II stablemate Snub TV.’
  • ‘Raven was clearly justified in eliding details of the two plots, in the interest of stiffening his adaptation, and making it plausible to 1970s viewers.’
  • ‘I accept that the word SPORK involves a clever idea of making a single word by eliding the end of the word spoon and beginning of the word fork.’