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vowel 音標拼音: [v'ɑʊəl] n. 元音
a. 元音的 母音母音的 vowel n 1: a speech sound made with the vocal tract open [ synonym: { vowel}, { vowel sound}] [ ant: { consonant}] 2: a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowelVowel \ Vow" el\, n. [ F. voyelle, or an OF. form without y, L. vocalis ( sc. littera), from vocalis sounding, from vox, vocis, a voice, sound. See { Vocal}.] ( Phon.) A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a { consonant} in that the latter, whether made with or without vocality, derives its character in every case from some kind of obstructive action by the mouth organs. Also, a letter or character which represents such a sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, [ sect][ sect] 5, 146- 149. [ 1913 Webster] Note: In the English language, the written vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y. The spoken vowels are much more numerous. [ 1913 Webster] { Close vowel}. See under { Close}, a. { Vowel point}. See under { Point}, n. [ 1913 Webster]
Vowel \ Vow" el\, a. Of or pertaining to a vowel; vocal. [ 1913 Webster] 126 Moby Thesaurus words for " vowel": accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico- alveolar, apico- dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, check, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal, epenthetic vowel, explosive, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, glottalization, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, manner of articulation, mid, modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plosive, posttonic, prothetic vowel, retroflex, rounded, segmental phoneme, semivowel, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound, stop, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, transition sound, triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocable, vocal, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowellike, weak, wide
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