Of a door, gate, window, etc.: having the movable part put aside so that there is access or passage through a wall, fence, etc.; not closed or…

Phonetics. (a) Used to express the acoustic quality of the high-front vowels; (b) a designation for unvoiced consonants. Obsolete in technical use.

Phonetics. Of a vowel: forming a syllable on its own rather than being pronounced as part of a diphthong or other combination of vowels. Cf. monoph…

Of a vowel: narrow, close; (in Gaelic phonology) designating the vowels e and i, and certain consonants when in contact with these; slender. Now rare.

Phonetics. Designating vowels with a particular quality; spec. (a) = short, adj. 13; (b) (of letters in Russian) indicating palatalized quality of…

Phonetics. Of a vowel sound: centralized or reduced. Cf. indeterminate, adj. 2e.

Phonetics. Of a sound, esp. a vowel: enunciated by contracting the lips to form a circular shape.

Of vowels: Narrow, close.

Of vowel-sounds: Pronounced with partial closing of the lips, or with contraction of the oral cavity. Opposed to open. (In French fermé.)

Phonetics. Of a vowel sound: pronounced with the muscles involved (esp. those of the tongue) in a relatively relaxed state; pronounced with a…

Phonetics. Of a vowel sound: articulated with the tongue in a lower position. Also (of a pronunciation): characterized by the use of such a…

Phonetics. = close, adj. 1d.

Of a speech sound (now esp. a consonant): articulated with rounding or complete or partial closure of the lips as a secondary articulatory…

Of, relating to, or connecting the mouth and the nose; (Phonetics) pronounced with the oral and nasal passages open (= nasal, adj. 2a). Cf. oronasal…

Phonetics. Of a vowel: articulated with the centre of the tongue raised in a position between front and back. Cf. back, adj. 1d front, n.…

Linguistics. Of a vowel sound: articulated less distinctly than a stressed vowel; weakened and centralized; that has become more obscure than the…

Phonetics. Of or designating a vowel not followed by a consonant in the same syllable. Opposed to checked, adj.1 1b.

Phonetics. Of a vowel: produced with (the highest part of the body of) the tongue in a position raised close to the roof of the mouth; showing…

Phonetics. Of a vowel: produced with (the highest part of the body of) the tongue raised only a small degree towards the roof of the mouth; showing…

spec. Phonetics. Of a vowel sound: produced with (the highest part of the body of) the tongue at a relatively medium height in the mouth; showing…

Phonetics. = central, adj. 7.

Phonetics. Of vowels: affected by labialization. Cf. labial, adj. 1.

spec. in Phonetics. Of a phoneme, esp. a vowel: enunciated with the lips not rounded.

Phonetics. Articulated with the tongue in a higher position.

Linguistics. Of a vowel sound: not reduced (reduced, adj. 2b).

Phonetics. Of a vowel sound: having a neutral, centralized articulation; reduced. Cf. indeterminate, adj. 2e.

Phonetics. Pronounced with the lips drawn out rather than rounded; unrounded.

Phonetics. Of a speech-sound, esp. a vowel: produced with the speech organs relaxed.

Phonetics. Of a vowel: = lax, adj. 5c.

spec. in Phonetics, applied to (the articulation of) a speech-sound pronounced with enhanced tension in the muscles of the speech organs. Cf. lax…

Phonetics. Of a vowel: that has become more central (see central, adj. 7); produced with the tongue in a more central position than the corresponding…

Grammar. Phonetics. Of a consonant: Voiced, i.e. uttered with vibration of the vocal cords, e.g. b, d, v, etc., as opposed to breath, e.g. p, t, f…

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Applied to a syllable that ends in a consonant, or to the vowel in such a syllable; cf. closed syllable at closed, adj. 1.