Noun
ছন্দ
Definitions of dactyl in English
noun
(1) A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables.
(2) A finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates.
(3) A finger or toe in human beings or corresponding part in other vertebrates.
Examples of dactyl in English
(1) Southey agrees, however, that the foot before the final trochee should always be a dactyl .
(2) His rhythmic faculties drive anthology-pieces like u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510The Danceu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb, whose dactyls skip happily over its line breaks.
(3) Thus a pattern consisting of five iambs would be an iambic pentameter; a pattern consisting of six dactyls would be a dactylic hexameter; and so on.
(4) My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls .
(5) His formula for modern heroic verse, proclaimed up front in the essay, was, in short: more dactyls than trochees, and more trochees than spondees.
synonyms of dactyl
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