[Dixonary] Round 3012 voting time: ASYNDETON

[Efrem G Mallach]

Folks,

We have gone from a paucity of definitions in the progress report to, if not a plethora, at least an adequacy. Fifteen definitions of ASYNDETON  follow. One is correct; fourteen are from your collective imaginations. They have been edited (very slightly) for format consistency and are in ascending order of character count, which might not correspond to visual length in your email display font.

Please vote for two that you like for any reason by public Reply to this message before the deadline that follows the list. If you realize now that you know what ASYNDETON means, please tell me by private email to emallach <at> verizon <dot> net. 

1. [Gk.] the woolly mammoth.

2. a randomly-timed bomb explosion.

3. a short literary essay or sketch.

4. a harsh penalty for a minor crime.

5. private consideration of a case by a judge.

6. one who keeps to themselves; a rebel; a loner.

7. an object that is obviously or starkly out of place.

8. omission of conjunctions between parts of a sentence.

9. of a plant with radiate leaves or branches; umbrella-like.

10. [rare] anything which is not of uniform character or weight.

11. in Asian music, a note not conforming to the time signature or metre of the piece.

12. having coloration that stands out against the creature’s habitat, usu. for the purpose of attracting a mate or fending off rivals.

13. the rapid growth of the complexity of a problem due to how the combinatorics of the problem is affected by the input, constraints, and bounds of the problem.

14. land subject to the Charter of the Forest (1217), which reformed forest law and established the rights of agistment and pannage on private land within the forests.

15. a morpheme in morphology and syntax that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase. In this sense, it is syntactically independent but phonologically dependent, always attached to a host.

Votes are due 47+ hours from now: Sunday, Sept. 8, at 9 am US EDT. According to timeanddate.com, that is:

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Vote on!

Efrem

[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 11 and 15.

[Debbie]

2 and 11 please

On Fri, Sep 6, 2019, 9:50 AM France International/Mike Shefler <sta...@salsgiver.com> wrote:

I'll go with 11 and 15.

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[Tim Lodge]

Why not first and last - 1 and 15?

 1. [Gk.] the woolly mammoth.

15. a morpheme in morphology and syntax that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase. In this sense, it is syntactically independent but phonologically dependent, always attached to a host.

--  Tim L

[Judy Madnick]

I'll go with the grammar-type definitions:

 

     8. omission of conjunctions between parts of a sentence.

     15. a morpheme in morphology and syntax that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase. In this sense, it is syntactically independent but phonologically dependent, always attached to a host.

 

 

Judy Madnick

Albany,NY

 

[Tim B]

It doesn't feel like a verb or an adjective or adverb, bjut the structure looks wrong for a noun.
For want of anything better, let's try 1 and 11, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 1 and 7.

On 9/6/2019 9:20 AM, 'Efrem G Mallach' via Dixonary wrote:

Folks,

1. [Gk.] the woolly mammoth.

[Ryan McGill]

Once again going against the crowd. Because I like seeing the votes in a more even spread. And the popular ones seem to have been manufactured.

7 & 10

7. an object that is obviously or starkly out of place.

[Dave Cunningham]

3 and 7 because it has to be Greek in some way so I can rule out the "wooly mammoth" which was quite rare in ancient Greece.

Dave

[Shani Naylor]

Not having a clue, I'll vote for the slightly similar #7 and #10.

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[Daniel B Widdis]

Vox-pop-ish 10 and 15.

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[Christopher Carson]

I’ll take 7 and 15.

 

Chris

 

[Tony Abell]

I'll take 7 and 15:

> 7. an object that is obviously or starkly out of place.

[nancygoat]

3 and 11 for me. 

Nancy