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bine

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Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A slender climbing or twining plant stem. The poem describes bine stems tangled across the winter sky.

Detailed Definition
A bine is a flexible climbing stem that grows by winding around a support, as in hops or bindweed. Hardy’s “bine-stems” form a tangled skeletal pattern against the sky, contributing to the poem’s barren winter imagery.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The tangled bine-stems scored the sky / Like strings of broken lyres,” where bine is a climbing or twining plant stem, especially hop; “hop-bines curled around the pole” gives the botanical sense plainly; “wild bine netted the abandoned gate” uses plant growth to suggest neglect; distinguish bine from vine, since a bine climbs by spiraling rather than by tendrils
Additional Notes
The quoted botanical term is specialized vocabulary for a climbing plant stem and may be unfamiliar to general readers.; Found in the poem, The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
Also Known As
climbing plant twining vine creeping growth
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