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单词 diaphone
释义

diaphone

[ dahy-uh-fohn ]
/ ˈdaɪ əˌfoʊn /

noun

a foghorn producing a low-pitched, penetrating signal of two tones.
Phonetics.
  1. a phoneme in one dialect corresponding to a similar but phonetically different phoneme in a related dialect.
  2. a group of sounds comprising all the phonetically different dialectal variants of a given phoneme in a language: The broad a and flat a of “half” are members of a single diaphone.

Origin of diaphone

First recorded in 1905–10; dia- + -phone

Words nearby diaphone

diaphanometer, diaphanoscope, diaphanoscopy, diaphanous, diaphemetric, diaphone, diaphony, diaphorase, diaphoresis, diaphoretic, diaphototropism
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Example sentences from the Web for diaphone

  • In the Pedal department no reed or flue pipe can begin to compare with a Diaphone, either in attack or in volume of tone.

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British Dictionary definitions for diaphone

diaphone
/ (ˈdaɪəˌfəʊn) /

noun

  1. the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language
  2. one of any number of corresponding sounds in different dialects of a language
a foghorn that emits a two-toned signal

Word Origin for diaphone

C20: from dia (lect) + phone ²
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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