contour
coarticulate
inflection
modulation
assimilation
monotone
murmurish
sound system
suprasegmental
egressive
infection
xenophone
Babel
sing
language shift
pseudolalia
merger
dialectologist
regressive assimilation
utter
nonsonorant
multivalenced
ingressive
sound
endophasia
phonetic
resound
filled pause
clarion
latching
ululate
cadence
debuccalization
complementation
phoneme
ploop
vowel sound
complementary distribution
vowel
vocal
surround sound
viseme
go
undulate
boom
free indirect speech
sound change
upspeak
discord
haw
tonguey
sonant
mutually intelligible
consonant
-phone
speechlike
speaking tube
voiced sound
progressive assimilation
stammer
affricate consonant
prosodic unit
affricative
phone
inflect
affricate
glottogenesis
phonic
noise
diarization
speech sound
filler
lingualization
low
fricative
verbal communication
pronounce
cheep
sibilant
interintelligible
phonate
strident
earcon
contour tone
spirant
boom-boom
tumultuous
low-pitched
voice
continuant
clanging
phono-
snatch
buccalization
slide
murmurish
suprasegmental
multivalenced
phonetic
vocal
undulate
tonguey
mutually intelligible
speechlike
phonic
low
fricative
sibilant
interintelligible
strident
spirant
tumultuous
low-pitched
continuant
contour
inflection
modulation
assimilation
monotone
sound system
egressive
infection
xenophone
Babel
language shift
pseudolalia
merger
dialectologist
regressive assimilation
nonsonorant
ingressive
sound
endophasia
filled pause
latching
cadence
debuccalization
complementation
phoneme
ploop
vowel sound
complementary distribution
vowel
surround sound
viseme
free indirect speech
sound change
upspeak
discord
sonant
consonant
speaking tube
voiced sound
progressive assimilation
stammer
affricate consonant
prosodic unit
affricative
phone
affricate
glottogenesis
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speech sound
filler
lingualization
verbal communication
cheep
earcon
contour tone
voice
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buccalization
slide
coarticulate
sing
utter
resound
clarion
ululate
go
boom
inflect
noise
pronounce
phonate
boom-boom
noun
- a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
- A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.
- An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
- A general description giving the most important points.
verb
verb
- To assimilate the place of articulation of one speech sound to that of an adjacent speech sound.
- To articulate a speech sound at two different places of articulation simultaneously, as in the labiovelar approximant [w].
- To articulate two things simultaneously.
- To unite to form an articulation (joint)
noun
- a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
- a musical passage moving from one key to another
- (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase
- rise and fall of the voice pitch
- the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)
noun
- 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.
- The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
- The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
- The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
noun
- (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
- the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
- (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
- an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
- the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
- moral corruption or contamination
- (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
verb
- To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
- To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.
- To be capable of being sung; to produce a certain effect by being sung.
- To soothe with singing.
- To confess under interrogation.
- In traditional Aboriginal culture, to direct a supernatural influence on (a person or thing), usually malign; to curse.
- To produce a 'song', for the purposes of defending a breeding territory or to attract a mate.
- To produce any type of melodious vocalisation.
- To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
- To make a small, shrill sound.
- To perform a vocal part in a musical composition, regardless of technique.
- To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
noun
noun
- A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.
- One that merges.
- The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
- An absorption of one or more estate(s) or contract(s) into one other, all being held by the same owner; of several counts of accusation into one judgement, etc.
- The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
noun
adj
- Going or directed inward, entering.
- Aspectually indicating that an action is about to be entered or is in the process of being entered.
- Being a source or channel through which water enters or once entered an area.
- Uttered by drawing air inward through the mouth or nose.
- Open to entry or examination.
noun
- A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound.
- Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.
- A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra, &.
- A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.
- A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.
- Noise without meaning; empty noise.
- A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
- A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
- The air bladder of a fish.
adv
adj
- Heavy; laid on with force.
- Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
- Complete, solid, or secure.
- Having the property of soundness.
- Healthy.
- Quiet and deep.
- Good; acceptable; decent.
intj
verb
- To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
- Dive downwards, used of a whale.
- To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
- Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
- To convey an impression by one's sound.
- To cause to produce a sound.
- To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
- To pronounce.
- To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy.
- To produce a sound.
verb
- Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo.
- Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise.
- Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring.
- Of a person, their reputation, etc.: to be much lauded or mentioned.
- Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously.
- Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time.
- To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.
- To echo or repeat (a sound).
- To sound again.
- To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing.
noun
verb
- Of a thing: to cause (a place) to echo with a sound like that of a clarion.
- To announce or herald (something) using a clarion (noun sense 1).
- To sound a clarion; also, to make a high-pitched, piercing sound like that of a clarion.
- To announce or herald (something) clearly, especially so as to stir or unite people.
noun
- An organ stop consisting of pipes with reeds giving a high-pitched note like that of a clarion (sense 1).
- A charge thought to represent a type of wind instrument, a keyboard instrument like a spinet, or perhaps a rest used by a knight to support a lance during jousting.
- A medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal; related to the trumpet, it had a narrow, straight pipe and a high-pitched, piercing sound.
- The sound of a clarion (sense 1), or any sound resembling the loud, high-pitched note of a clarion.
adj
noun
- A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
- The number of steps per minute.
- A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
- A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
- The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground
- The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
- A dance move which ends a phrase.
- The act or state of declining or sinking.
- The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
- The frequency of regular product releases.
- The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
- Balanced, rhythmic flow.
- A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
- The measure or beat of movement.
- Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
- cadency
verb
adj
- Used in the production of speech sounds.
- Relating to, composed or arranged for, or sung by the human voice.
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech.
- Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng.
- Synonym of expressive.
- Uttered or modulated by the voice; expressed in words.
- Full of voices.
- Expressing opinions or feelings freely, loudly, or insistently.
- Having or exercising the power of producing voice, speech, or sound.
- Synonym of vocalic.
noun
- A part of a piece of music that is sung.
- A musical performance involving singing.
- A man in the Roman Catholic Church who has a right to vote in certain elections.
- A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic.
verb
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
adj
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
verb
- To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
- To flourish, grow, or progress.
- To make something boom.
- To subject to a sonic boom.
- To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
- Of a Eurasian bittern, to make its deep, resonant territorial vocalisation.
- To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
- To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
- To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
- To raise or lower with a crane boom.
noun
- A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
- The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
- A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
- A rapid expansion or increase.
- A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
- A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
- An instance of booming.
- One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
- A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
- A microphone supported on such a pole.
- A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
- A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
- The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
- A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.
intj
intj
- An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like "haw"; the sound so made.
- An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw or haw haw haw).
- An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver, typically left.
noun
- A disease of the nictitating membrane.
- A hedge.
- The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane.
- Fruit of the hawthorn.
verb
adj
- Manifested by fluent or voluble speech.
- Involving the tongue.
- Using many words; containing grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance (generally with an unfavourable connotation).
- Resembling a tongue.
- Tending to talk a lot; fluent or voluble in speech (generally with an unfavourable connotation).
noun
noun
- (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
- electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
- electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
verb
verb
noun
- Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
- Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
- Any sound.
- Any part of a signal or data that reduces the clarity, precision, or quality of the desired output.
- Speech that is suggestive of an attitude or opinion.
- A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
- The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population.
- Rumour or complaint.
- Unwanted fuss or bustle; useless activity.
noun
- Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause.
- Something added to fill a space or add weight or size.
- Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.
- A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics.
- A short article in a newspaper or magazine.
- Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as "coppice under standards".
- material of lower cost or quality that is used to fill a certain television time slot or physical medium, such as a music album
- In COBOL, the description of an unnamed part of a record that contains no data relevant to a given context (normally capitalised when in a data division).
- One who fills.
- A short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes.
- A plant that lacks a distinctive shape and can fill inconvenient spaces around other plants in pots or gardens.
- Cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar.
adj
- used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency
- less than normal in degree or intensity or amount
- being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension
noun
- an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
- a low level or position or degree
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
adj
- very low in volume
- unrefined in character
- of the most contemptible kind
- low or inferior in station or quality
- no longer sufficient
- subdued or brought low in condition or status
- filled with melancholy and despondency
adv
verb
noun
- the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
- something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
- (metonymy) a singer
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- the ability to speak
- (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
verb
prefix
noun
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
- A short period.
- A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- A quick grab or catch.
- The vulva.
verb
noun
- A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
- A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
- A shoe that is backless and open-toed.
- A pocket in one's pants (trousers).
- The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
- A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
- A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
- A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.
- The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
- An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
- A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.
- A lever that can be moved in two directions.
- A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
- A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
- A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.
- A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
- A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
- The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
- A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
- A promiscuous woman, slut.
- An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
- A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
verb
- To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
- To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
- To move on a low-friction surface.
- To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
- To decrease in amount or value.
- To smoothly pass from one note to another by bending the pitch upwards or downwards.
- To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.
- To go; to move from one place or to another.
- To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
- To drop down and skid into a base.
- To subtly direct a facial expression at (someone).
- To kick so that the ball slides along the ground with little or no turning.
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uninclined.
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musical instrument
with a gulp
knock.
a rude dismissal.
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dandelion
indignantly
wire rope
Extremely large
bird
capital stock
coleopterans
draft proposal
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belay
windscreen
subconscious
to haul down
buttery
serious injury
whitish
interviewer
Characterised or marked by clutter
monopolising
with one's whole heart
piquant.
loan translation
to go to
to read aloud
to play the fool
fruity
iron club
inconsequential
rookie
complete destruction
oppose
self-indulgence
one-man business
sequel
blameworthy
one's family
unparalleled
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