make position (English, verb)
expansion: make position (third-person singular simple present makes position, present participle making position, simple past and past participle made position)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: To cause a syllable that contains a short vowel to scan as metrically long (heavy) instead of metrically short (light) by being positioned immediately after it, without affecting the length of the vowel itself.
tags: intransitive
Forms:
form: makes position
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: making position
tags: participle
present
form: made position
tags: participle
past
form: made position
tags: past