CONSONANTS

Meaning of CONSONANTS in English

plural of consonant

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CONSONANTS — Consonants
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CONSONANTS — Consonants
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HIEROGLYPH — Character in any of several systems of writing that is pictorial in nature, though not necessarily in the way it …
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HEBREW ALPHABET — Script used to write the Hebrew language and a number of other languages used as vernaculars by Jews, including Yiddish …
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ALLITERATION — or head rhyme Repetition of consonant sounds in two or more neighbouring words or syllables. A frequently used poetic device, …
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WEAK — I. ˈwēk adjective ( -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English waike, weike, weke, from Old Norse veikr; akin to Old English …
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THE — I. before consonants & especially South before vowels also thə, before vowels thē or thi, in sense 1r often |thē …
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SINGLE — I. ˈsiŋgəl adjective Etymology: Middle English single, sengle, from Middle French, from Latin singulus one only, individual; akin to Latin …
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BE — I. (|)bē, _bi verb ( past first & third singular was (|)wəz, (|)wäz also (|)wȯz ; or dialect were see …
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ANTI- — I. in pronunciations below, | ̷ ̷(ˌ) ̷ ̷ . |anˌtī or |an_tē or |antə̇ (-tə̇ occurring chiefly before consonants ) or |aan- or …
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-TH — I. — see -eth I II. th, usu with preceding epenthetic t after some consonants and in eighth; often t …
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-ING — I. iŋ, ēŋ, ə̇n, ēn after any sound; after t ( but usually not when f, k, p, or s …
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VOCALIZATION — ˌvōkələ̇ˈzāshən, -əˌlīˈz- noun ( -s ) Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary vocalize + -ation 1. : the act or process of …
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CONSONANTISM — ˈkän(t)sənənˌtizəm noun ( -s ) 1. : the consonant system (as of a language or dialect) 2. : the consonants, …
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H — () the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with the mouth organs …
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H — the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with the mouth organs in …
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H — the seventh degree in the diatonic scale, being used by the germans for b natural. ·see b. 2. h ·- …
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VELARIZATION — in phonetics, secondary articulation in the pronunciation of consonants, in which the tongue is drawn far up and back in …
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SHORTHAND — also called stenography, a system for rapid writing that uses symbols or abbreviations for letters, words, or phrases. Among the …
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PALATALIZATION — in phonetics, the production of consonants with the blade, or front, of the tongue drawn up farther toward the roof …
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HIEROGLYPH — a character used in a system of pictorial writing, particularly that form used on ancient Egyptian monuments. Hieroglyphic symbols may …
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ALPHABET — set of graphs, or characters, used to represent the phonemic structure of a language. In most alphabets the characters are …
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RUSSIAN LANGUAGE — Russian Russki Yazyk, principal state and cultural language of Russia. Together with Ukrainian and Belarusian, the Russian language makes up …
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INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES — Approximate locations of Indo-European languages in contemporary Eurasia. family of languages spoken in most of Europe and areas of European …
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HEBREW LANGUAGE — Semitic language of the Northern Central (also called Northwestern) group; it is closely related to Phoenician and Moabite, with which …
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GRIMM'S LAW — description of the regular correspondences in Indo-European languages formulated by Jacob Grimm in his Deutsche Grammatik (181937; Germanic Grammar); it …
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CELTIC LANGUAGES — also spelled Keltic, branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken throughout much of Western Europe in Roman and pre-Roman times …
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ARABIC LANGUAGE — Southern-Central Semitic language spoken in a large area including North Africa, most of the Arabian Peninsula, and other parts of …
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CONSONANT — I. noun PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES weak consonant/syllable ▪ Elision is a closely related subject, and in considering intonation the …
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ARABIC ALPHABET — Script used to write Arabic and a number of other languages whose speakers have been influenced by Arab and Islamic …
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