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omission - a mistake resulting from neglect |
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mistake,
error,
fault a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"
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failure an unexpected omission; "he resented my failure to return his call"; "the mechanic's failure to check the brakes"
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omission - neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something |
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disregard,
neglect willful lack of care and attention
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inadvertence,
oversight a mistake resulting from inattention
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pretermission letting pass without notice
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elision,
exception,
exclusion omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
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omission - any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases |
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deletion |
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linguistic process the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication; "he didn't have the language to express his feelings"
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aphaeresis,
apheresis (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'
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aphesis the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'
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elision omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
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eclipsis,
ellipsis omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences
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omission - something that has been omitted; "she searched the table for omissions" |
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disuse,
neglect the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect"
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