vowel 音标拼音: [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 vowel Vowel \
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 ]
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146 -
149 .
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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 .
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1913 Webster ]
{
Close vowel }.
See under {
Close },
a .
{
Vowel point }.
See under {
Point },
n .
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1913 Webster ]
Vowel \
Vow "
el \,
a .
Of or pertaining to a vowel ;
vocal .
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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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