stylus
nounHow to pronounce stylus:
Definition of stylus:
- stylus (noun):
- an instrument for writing, marking, or incising such as
- a sharp pointed device attached to the cartridge of a record player.
- a needle-like device in the pick-up arm of a record player that rests in the groove in the record and picks up the sound signals
Synonyms for stylus:
cartridge
device
needle
pen
phonograph needle
pickup
pointer
probe
style
Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- shuttling
- sharpened
- jut out
- Dorren
- coxswain
- connote
- bazoo
- yellowed
- tableau
- stairway
- runback
- loosened
- honking
- fortnight
- doodling
- chanting
- squirted
- collate
- chortle
- bookshop
- Seamus
- renamed
- Nietzsche
- shortened
- revolved
- loudest
- freezing
- erstwhile
- endures
- belies
- whisking
- foreshore
- ani
- unharmed
- subhead
- rostrum
- recapped
- ported
- Jordell
- goaded
- darted
- anoil
- vices
- permeates
- flinching
- unpinned
- scrubby
- grander
- diffused
- witnessed
- … more
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