English words for 'A non-arbitrary mapping between speech sounds and the visual shape of objects.'
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- the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- The use of speech to express an idea
- (orthography, phonology) The addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.
- (phonology) The change in pronunciation of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds as vowels. For example, the syllabic /l/ in words like people or the coda one in words like cold or coal are variably realized as a high back vowel or glide—[ʊ], [u], [ɤ] or [o]—in many dialects of English in the US, UK, and the Southern Hemisphere. For example, in African American Vernacular English, one common pronunciation of the words "people", "cold", and "coal" is [pʰipʊ], [kʰoɤd], or [kʰoɤ] respectively.
- (orthography) The vowel diacritics in certain scripts, like Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.
- The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
- Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
- (music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
- (biology) The production of communication sounds with the syrinx or larynx (in tetrapods) or with the swim bladder (in fish)
- (phonology) To assimilate the place of articulation of one speech sound to that of an adjacent speech sound.
- (phonetics) To articulate a speech sound at two different places of articulation simultaneously, as in the labiovelar approximant [[[w]]].
- To articulate two things simultaneously.
- (anatomy) To unite to form an articulation (joint)
- (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
- (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
- moral corruption or contamination
- an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
- (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
- the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
- the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
- A disease caused by such presence of a pathogen.
- A visible sign of such a disease, such as the suppuration of a wound.
- An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.
- (pathology) The act or process of infecting.
- To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
- (intransitive) To talk idly.
- (intransitive, of teeth, machinery, etc.) To make a noise by rapid collisions.
- make noise as if chattering away
- cut unevenly with a chattering tool
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- click repeatedly or uncontrollably
- The sound of talking.
- An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
- (Internet) A user of chat rooms.
- (uncountable) The situation where a drill or similar tool vibrates and tears the material rather than cutting it cleanly.
- The vocalisations of a Eurasian magpie, Pica pica.
- Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
- The vocalisations of various birds or other animals.
- (uncountable) In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge the degree of expected terrorist activity.
- (Internet) A user of livestream chat.
- One who chats.
- the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)
- the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine
- noisy talk
- Either of the two points at the ends of a line segment.
- (biology, medicine) A defined occurrence during the observation period of an experiment or study.
- (programming) Part of a system that serves as a hook, allowing third-party code to intercept and modify behaviour at that point.
- (chemistry) The stage in a titration at which a change in the colour of an indicator indicates that no more titrant should be added.
- (linguistics, phonetics, speech recognition) The point in speech at which an utterance ends.
- (mathematics) Either of the two nodes of a graph of degree 1.
- (networking, telecommunications) The entity at one end of a connection.
- a place where something ends or is complete
- The set of speech sounds that make up a language; a phonology.
- (music, originally Jamaica) A mobile platform playing selected recorded music, set up as a social event, often with an entrance fee.
- An electronic system used to reproduce sound.
- a system of electronic equipment for recording or reproducing sound
- (uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.
- the act of hearing attentively
- an opportunity to state your case and be heard
- (law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence
- a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken
- the ability to hear; the auditory faculty
- the range within which a voice can be heard
- (countable) Something heard; a report or piece of news.
- (uncountable) The distance or physical region within which something may be heard; earshot.
- (countable) The act by which something is heard; the act of perceiving by sound or the auditory sense.
- (uncountable) A proceeding at which discussions are heard.
- (countable, law) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
- a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
- in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance
- the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
- the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
- the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family
- the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
- The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
- The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
- (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
- (phonology) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
- (linguistics) The study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols.
- the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis
- Intense; sensitive; sharp.
- (linguistics, chiefly historical) Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
- High or shrill.
- (medicine) Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
- (medicine) Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
- (geometry, of a triangle) Having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
- (orthography, postpositive) Of a letter of the alphabet, having an acute accent.
- (geometry, of an angle) Less than 90 degrees.
- Brief, quick, short.
- (botany) With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
- Urgent.
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- of critical importance and consequence
- of an angle; less than 90 degrees
- extremely sharp or severe
- having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course
- ending in a sharp point
- perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
- (intransitive, stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.
- examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process
- listen and pay attention
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- receive a communication from someone
- (transitive) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
- To be contacted by. [with from]
- (transitive) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
- (transitive, Greek philosophy) To study under.
- (transitive, informal) To sympathize with; to understand the feelings or opinion of.
- (transitive, law) To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
- (transitive, stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
- (transitive) To receive information about; to come to learn of.
- a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols
- (countable) A method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols; spelling.
- (uncountable) Correct spelling according to established usage; also (obsolete) pronunciation according to the spelling of a word.
- (countable, architecture) A form of projection used to represent three-dimensional objects in two dimensions, in which all the projection lines are orthogonal or perpendicular to the projection plane; an orthographic projection, especially when used to draw an elevation, vertical projection, etc., of a building; also (obsolete) a drawing made in this way.
- (countable, more broadly) A set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, capitalization, emphasis, hyphenation, punctuation, and word breaks.
- (uncountable) The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words; the study of spelling.
- a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols
- (linguistics, specifically) The basic type of a system for writing languages. For example, alphabetic writing or logographic writing.
- (linguistics) A system for writing one or more languages; a particular alphabetic, syllabic, logographic, or other scheme. For example, the Latin alphabet or the Cyrillic alphabet.
- a speech sound that is not a vowel
- a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant
- (phonetics) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
- A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
- (linguistics) A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.
- (music) An adaptation of a composition.
- (genetics) The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.
- (broadcasting) A recorded radio or television programme.
- The act or process of transcribing.
- the act of making a record (especially an audio record)
- (genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA
- something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation
- the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
- a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording)
- the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
- studies of the rules for forming admissible words
- the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms
- the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants
- (linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
- (countable) The form and structure of something.
- (mathematics) Mathematical morphology.
- (geology) The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
- (biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
- (countable) A description of the form and structure of something.
- Easily or distinctly heard; audible.
- Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus.
- (MLE) Better than, superior to.
- (meteorology) Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
- (MLE) Good, the best.
- Able to perceive straightforwardly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
- Transparent in colour.
- Unmixed; entirely pure.
- Without clouds.
- Bright; luminous; not dark or obscured.
- Distinct, sharp, well-marked.
- (figuratively) Free of guilt, or suspicion.
- (of a soup) Without a thickening ingredient.
- (of a railway signal) Showing a green aspect, allowing a train to proceed past it.
- Without diminution; in full; net.
- Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
- Free of ambiguity or doubt; easily understood.
- Free of obstacles.
- (Scientology) Free from the influence of engrams; see Clear (Scientology).
- Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots.
- freed from any question of guilt
- free from contact or proximity or connection
- (especially of a title) free from any encumbrance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law
- allowing light to pass through
- clear of charges or deductions
- clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible
- free of restrictions or qualifications
- free from flaw or blemish or impurity
- readily apparent to the mind
- free from clouds or mist or haze
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
- characterized by freedom from troubling thoughts (especially guilt)
- easily deciphered
- free from confusion or doubt
- affording free passage or view
- characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving
- accurately stated or described
- (Scientology) A person who is free from the influence of engrams.
- (carpentry) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.
- (video games) The completion of a stage or challenge, or of the whole game.
- a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
- the state of being free of suspicion
- (transitive, firearms) To unload a firearm, or undergo an unloading procedure, in order to prevent negligent discharge; for safety reasons, to check whether one's firearm is loaded or unloaded.
- (transitive) To pass without interference; to miss.
- (transitive, computing) To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at a given position.
- (transitive, video games) To finish or complete (a stage, challenge, or game).
- (transitive) To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.
- (transitive) To approve or authorise for a particular purpose or action; to give clearance to.
- (intransitive) To obtain a clearance.
- (transitive) To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
- (intransitive) To leave abruptly; to clear off or clear out.
- (transitive) To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
- (transitive, business) To earn a profit of; to net.
- (transitive) To remove (items or material) so as to leave something unobstructed or open.
- (transitive, activities such as jumping or throwing) To exceed a stated mark.
- (transitive) To obtain approval or authorisation in respect of.
- (transitive, computing) To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
- (intransitive) Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.
- To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
- (transitive) To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from (a matter); to clarify or resolve; to clear up.
- (intransitive) To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent.
- (transitive, intransitive, sports) To hit, kick, head, punch etc. (a ball, puck) away in order to defend one's goal.
- go away or disappear
- free from payment of customs duties, as of a shipment
- make a way or path by removing objects
- remove the occupants of
- settle, as of a debt
- go unchallenged; be approved
- make as a net profit
- be debited and credited to the proper bank accounts
- clear from impurities, blemishes, pollution, etc.
- sell to get rid of
- rid of instructions or data
- free (the throat) by making a rasping sound
- make clear, bright, light, or translucent
- grant authorization or clearance for
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- remove (people) from a building
- become clear
- yield as a net profit
- remove debris from
- make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
- pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- pass an inspection or receive authorization
- rid of obstructions
- (of speech or a sound) Having a single unvaried pitch.
- (printing) Synonym of monochrome.
- (mathematics) Of a function: that is always nonincreasing or nondecreasing on an interval.
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
- the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
- (uncountable) The study of the way sounds function in languages, including accent, intonation, phonemes, stress, and syllable structure, and which sounds are distinctive units within a language; (countable) the way sounds function within a given language; a phonological system.
- (by extension, uncountable) The study of the way components of signs function in a sign language, and which components are distinctive units within the language; (countable) the way components of signs function within a given sign language.
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- the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- The use of speech to express an idea
- (orthography, phonology) The addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.
- (phonology) The change in pronunciation of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds as vowels. For example, the syllabic /l/ in words like people or the coda one in words like cold or coal are variably realized as a high back vowel or glide—[ʊ], [u], [ɤ] or [o]—in many dialects of English in the US, UK, and the Southern Hemisphere. For example, in African American Vernacular English, one common pronunciation of the words "people", "cold", and "coal" is [pʰipʊ], [kʰoɤd], or [kʰoɤ] respectively.
- (orthography) The vowel diacritics in certain scripts, like Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.
- The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
- Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
- (music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
- (biology) The production of communication sounds with the syrinx or larynx (in tetrapods) or with the swim bladder (in fish)
- (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
- (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
- moral corruption or contamination
- an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
- (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
- the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
- the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
- A disease caused by such presence of a pathogen.
- A visible sign of such a disease, such as the suppuration of a wound.
- An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.
- (pathology) The act or process of infecting.
- The set of speech sounds that make up a language; a phonology.
- (music, originally Jamaica) A mobile platform playing selected recorded music, set up as a social event, often with an entrance fee.
- An electronic system used to reproduce sound.
- a system of electronic equipment for recording or reproducing sound
- a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
- in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance
- the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
- the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
- the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family
- the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
- The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
- The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
- (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
- (phonology) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
- (linguistics) The study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols.
- the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis
- a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols
- (countable) A method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols; spelling.
- (uncountable) Correct spelling according to established usage; also (obsolete) pronunciation according to the spelling of a word.
- (countable, architecture) A form of projection used to represent three-dimensional objects in two dimensions, in which all the projection lines are orthogonal or perpendicular to the projection plane; an orthographic projection, especially when used to draw an elevation, vertical projection, etc., of a building; also (obsolete) a drawing made in this way.
- (countable, more broadly) A set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, capitalization, emphasis, hyphenation, punctuation, and word breaks.
- (uncountable) The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words; the study of spelling.
- a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols
- (linguistics, specifically) The basic type of a system for writing languages. For example, alphabetic writing or logographic writing.
- (linguistics) A system for writing one or more languages; a particular alphabetic, syllabic, logographic, or other scheme. For example, the Latin alphabet or the Cyrillic alphabet.
- a speech sound that is not a vowel
- a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant
- (phonetics) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
- A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
- (linguistics) A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.
- (music) An adaptation of a composition.
- (genetics) The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.
- (broadcasting) A recorded radio or television programme.
- The act or process of transcribing.
- the act of making a record (especially an audio record)
- (genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA
- something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation
- the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
- a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording)
- (uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.
- the act of hearing attentively
- an opportunity to state your case and be heard
- (law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence
- a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken
- the ability to hear; the auditory faculty
- the range within which a voice can be heard
- (countable) Something heard; a report or piece of news.
- (uncountable) The distance or physical region within which something may be heard; earshot.
- (countable) The act by which something is heard; the act of perceiving by sound or the auditory sense.
- (uncountable) A proceeding at which discussions are heard.
- (countable, law) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
- the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
- studies of the rules for forming admissible words
- the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms
- the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants
- (linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
- (countable) The form and structure of something.
- (mathematics) Mathematical morphology.
- (geology) The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
- (biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
- (countable) A description of the form and structure of something.
- (of speech or a sound) Having a single unvaried pitch.
- (printing) Synonym of monochrome.
- (mathematics) Of a function: that is always nonincreasing or nondecreasing on an interval.
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
- the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
- (uncountable) The study of the way sounds function in languages, including accent, intonation, phonemes, stress, and syllable structure, and which sounds are distinctive units within a language; (countable) the way sounds function within a given language; a phonological system.
- (by extension, uncountable) The study of the way components of signs function in a sign language, and which components are distinctive units within the language; (countable) the way components of signs function within a given sign language.
- To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
- (intransitive) To talk idly.
- (intransitive, of teeth, machinery, etc.) To make a noise by rapid collisions.
- make noise as if chattering away
- cut unevenly with a chattering tool
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- click repeatedly or uncontrollably
- The sound of talking.
- An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
- (Internet) A user of chat rooms.
- (uncountable) The situation where a drill or similar tool vibrates and tears the material rather than cutting it cleanly.
- The vocalisations of a Eurasian magpie, Pica pica.
- Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
- The vocalisations of various birds or other animals.
- (uncountable) In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge the degree of expected terrorist activity.
- (Internet) A user of livestream chat.
- One who chats.
- the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)
- the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine
- noisy talk
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- (phonology) To assimilate the place of articulation of one speech sound to that of an adjacent speech sound.
- (phonetics) To articulate a speech sound at two different places of articulation simultaneously, as in the labiovelar approximant [[[w]]].
- To articulate two things simultaneously.
- (anatomy) To unite to form an articulation (joint)
- To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
- (intransitive) To talk idly.
- (intransitive, of teeth, machinery, etc.) To make a noise by rapid collisions.
- make noise as if chattering away
- cut unevenly with a chattering tool
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- click repeatedly or uncontrollably
- The sound of talking.
- An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
- (Internet) A user of chat rooms.
- (uncountable) The situation where a drill or similar tool vibrates and tears the material rather than cutting it cleanly.
- The vocalisations of a Eurasian magpie, Pica pica.
- Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
- The vocalisations of various birds or other animals.
- (uncountable) In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge the degree of expected terrorist activity.
- (Internet) A user of livestream chat.
- One who chats.
- the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)
- the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine
- noisy talk
- Either of the two points at the ends of a line segment.
- (biology, medicine) A defined occurrence during the observation period of an experiment or study.
- (programming) Part of a system that serves as a hook, allowing third-party code to intercept and modify behaviour at that point.
- (chemistry) The stage in a titration at which a change in the colour of an indicator indicates that no more titrant should be added.
- (linguistics, phonetics, speech recognition) The point in speech at which an utterance ends.
- (mathematics) Either of the two nodes of a graph of degree 1.
- (networking, telecommunications) The entity at one end of a connection.
- a place where something ends or is complete
- Intense; sensitive; sharp.
- (linguistics, chiefly historical) Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
- High or shrill.
- (medicine) Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
- (medicine) Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
- (geometry, of a triangle) Having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
- (orthography, postpositive) Of a letter of the alphabet, having an acute accent.
- (geometry, of an angle) Less than 90 degrees.
- Brief, quick, short.
- (botany) With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
- Urgent.
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- of critical importance and consequence
- of an angle; less than 90 degrees
- extremely sharp or severe
- having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course
- ending in a sharp point
- perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
- (intransitive, stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.
- examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process
- listen and pay attention
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- receive a communication from someone
- (transitive) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
- To be contacted by. [with from]
- (transitive) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
- (transitive, Greek philosophy) To study under.
- (transitive, informal) To sympathize with; to understand the feelings or opinion of.
- (transitive, law) To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
- (transitive, stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
- (transitive) To receive information about; to come to learn of.
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- (uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.
- the act of hearing attentively
- an opportunity to state your case and be heard
- (law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence
- a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken
- the ability to hear; the auditory faculty
- the range within which a voice can be heard
- (countable) Something heard; a report or piece of news.
- (uncountable) The distance or physical region within which something may be heard; earshot.
- (countable) The act by which something is heard; the act of perceiving by sound or the auditory sense.
- (uncountable) A proceeding at which discussions are heard.
- (countable, law) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
- Easily or distinctly heard; audible.
- Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus.
- (MLE) Better than, superior to.
- (meteorology) Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
- (MLE) Good, the best.
- Able to perceive straightforwardly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
- Transparent in colour.
- Unmixed; entirely pure.
- Without clouds.
- Bright; luminous; not dark or obscured.
- Distinct, sharp, well-marked.
- (figuratively) Free of guilt, or suspicion.
- (of a soup) Without a thickening ingredient.
- (of a railway signal) Showing a green aspect, allowing a train to proceed past it.
- Without diminution; in full; net.
- Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
- Free of ambiguity or doubt; easily understood.
- Free of obstacles.
- (Scientology) Free from the influence of engrams; see Clear (Scientology).
- Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots.
- freed from any question of guilt
- free from contact or proximity or connection
- (especially of a title) free from any encumbrance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law
- allowing light to pass through
- clear of charges or deductions
- clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible
- free of restrictions or qualifications
- free from flaw or blemish or impurity
- readily apparent to the mind
- free from clouds or mist or haze
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
- characterized by freedom from troubling thoughts (especially guilt)
- easily deciphered
- free from confusion or doubt
- affording free passage or view
- characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving
- accurately stated or described
- (Scientology) A person who is free from the influence of engrams.
- (carpentry) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.
- (video games) The completion of a stage or challenge, or of the whole game.
- a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
- the state of being free of suspicion
- (transitive, firearms) To unload a firearm, or undergo an unloading procedure, in order to prevent negligent discharge; for safety reasons, to check whether one's firearm is loaded or unloaded.
- (transitive) To pass without interference; to miss.
- (transitive, computing) To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at a given position.
- (transitive, video games) To finish or complete (a stage, challenge, or game).
- (transitive) To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.
- (transitive) To approve or authorise for a particular purpose or action; to give clearance to.
- (intransitive) To obtain a clearance.
- (transitive) To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
- (intransitive) To leave abruptly; to clear off or clear out.
- (transitive) To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
- (transitive, business) To earn a profit of; to net.
- (transitive) To remove (items or material) so as to leave something unobstructed or open.
- (transitive, activities such as jumping or throwing) To exceed a stated mark.
- (transitive) To obtain approval or authorisation in respect of.
- (transitive, computing) To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
- (intransitive) Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.
- To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
- (transitive) To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from (a matter); to clarify or resolve; to clear up.
- (intransitive) To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent.
- (transitive, intransitive, sports) To hit, kick, head, punch etc. (a ball, puck) away in order to defend one's goal.
- go away or disappear
- free from payment of customs duties, as of a shipment
- make a way or path by removing objects
- remove the occupants of
- settle, as of a debt
- go unchallenged; be approved
- make as a net profit
- be debited and credited to the proper bank accounts
- clear from impurities, blemishes, pollution, etc.
- sell to get rid of
- rid of instructions or data
- free (the throat) by making a rasping sound
- make clear, bright, light, or translucent
- grant authorization or clearance for
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- remove (people) from a building
- become clear
- yield as a net profit
- remove debris from
- make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
- pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- pass an inspection or receive authorization
- rid of obstructions