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Consonant logo #10101) Affricate 2) Affricative 3) Aspirate 4) Concordant 5) Consistent 6) Continuant 7) Geminate 8) Harmonic 9) Harmonical 10) Harmonious 11) Harmonised 12) Harmonized
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Consonant

Consonant logo #10101) French word used in English 2) Harmonic 3) Harmonical 4) Harmonious 5) Harmonised 6) Harmonized 7) In harmony 8) In keeping
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Consonant

Consonant logo #21000 In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are [p], pronounced with the lips; [t], pronounced with the front of the tongue; [k], pronounced with the back of the tongue; [h], pronounced in the throat; [f] and [s], pronounced by forcing air through a narr...
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Consonant

Consonant logo #21002• (a.) Having agreement; congruous; consistent; according; -- usually followed by with or to. • (a.) Of or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants. • (n.) An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a ...
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consonant

consonant logo #21003any speech sound, such as that represented by t, g, f, or z, that is characterized by an articulation with a closure or narrowing of the vocal tract ... [31 related articles]
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Consonant

Consonant logo #22385A speech sound that is not a vowel. To download a PDF file listing consonants and their symbols in t
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Consonant

Consonant logo #20972Con'so·nant adjective [ Latin consonans , -antis ; present participle of consonare to sound at the same time, agree; con- + sonare to sound: confer French consonnant . See Sound to make a noise.] 1. Having agreement; congruous; consistent; ac...
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Consonant

Consonant logo #21217A consonant is a letter of the alphabet, or the sound it represents, that is not a vowel.
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Consonant

Consonant logo #21217In music the term consonant describes notes harmonising together for example
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consonant

consonant logo #23038Typically, in terms of sound production, a consonant is a sound which is obstructed in some way by tongue or lip contact as in /k/ keep or /b/ beep, as opposed to the unobstructed sound of a VOWEL. In terms of the sound system, a consonant is a sound that typically occurs at the beginning or end of the SYLLABLE rather than the middle, thus contrast...
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consonant

consonant logo #20400[adj] - involving or characterized by harmony 2. [n] - a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant 3. [n] - a speech sound that is not a vowel
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Consonant

Consonant logo #23197An alphabetic character which represents a sound created by a constriction or closure at one or more points along the vocal tract. Consonants form the onset or end of a syllable, or both.
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Consonant

Consonant logo #20403an alphabetic element other than a vowel
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Consonant

Consonant logo #20815 A consonant is a speech sound which obstructs the flow of air through the vocal tract; for example, the flow of air is obstructed by the lips in p and by the tongue in l. The term also refers to those letters of the alphabet whose typical value is to represent such sounds, namely all except a,e,i,o,u. The letter y can represent a consonant sound (...
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consonant

consonant logo #20974harmonic 1 harmonical adjective involving or characterized by harmony
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consonant

consonant logo #21221Sound produced by stopping the air flowing freely through the mouth; a letter representing a sound thus defined (b c d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w x y z). See also vowel. Consonants can be described in various ways, according to where and how the sound is made and whether the vocal cords in the throat vibrate or not. Where the sound is made A...
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consonant

consonant logo #22118a speech sound made by stopping all or some of the air going out of your mouth
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consonant

consonant logo #21199 · (in English articulation) a speech sound produced by occluding with or without releasing (p, b; t, d; k, g), diverting (m, n, ng), or obstructing (f, v; s, z, etc.) the flow of air from the lungs (opposed to vowel). · (in a syllable) any sound other than the sound of greatest sonority in the syllable, as b, r, and g in brig (opposed...
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consonant

consonant logo #23037One of the two main classes of sound. Consonants are formed by a constriction in the supra-glottal tract (or occasionally at the vocal folds as with the glottal stop [ʔ]). They divide into the chief types stops — /p,t,k/ for instance, fricatives — /f, θ, s/ — and approximants — /j, w/. Consonants contrast with ...
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consonant

consonant logo #23665[TEKS ELAR vocabulary] a letter of the alphabet that does not stand for a vowel
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