| 单词 | flat-vowelled |
| 释义 | > as lemmasflat-vowelled a. Of sound, a resonant instrument, a voice: Not clear and sharp; dead, dull. Also in combinations, as flat-sounding, flat-vowelled. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adjective] deada1533 sullen1599 wooden1609 flat1626 shallow1626 lumpish1742 dowf1768 toneless1773 deadish1783 insonorous1795 tubby1807 veiled1816 puffy1832 narrow-toned1865 woolly1872 woody1875 dull1878 irresonant1899 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > dull blinda1398 flat1626 unmodulated1755 immodulated1765 toneless1833 inflectionless1878 timbreless1928 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §154 If..you stop the Holes of a Hawkes Bell, it will make no Ring, but a flat noise, or Rattle. a1663 Sanderson in Treas. Dav. Ps. cl. 5 The cymbal will be flat, it will have no life or spirit in it. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 450 Too flat I thought this voice, and that too shrill. 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic ix. 217 The..variety of sounds..produced by the report of his fowling-piece. Sometimes they are flat and prolonged, at other times short and sharp. 1920 ‘K. Mansfield’ Lett. (1928) II. 3 His flat-sounding voice. 1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger i. 10 The haw-haw, flat-vowelled Public School English. < as lemmas |
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