| 单词 | consonant |
| 释义 | consonant (once / 1753 pages) 1n 2adj A consonant is a speech sound that is not a vowel. It also refers to letters of the alphabet that represent those sounds: Z, B, T, G, and H are all consonants. Consonants are all the non-vowel sounds, or their corresponding letters: A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y are not consonants. In hat, H and T are consonants. Consonant can also be an adjective that describes things that seem like they should go together, things that are "agreeable." You could say a nation's offer of aid is consonant with their treaties. When you hear consonant sounds in music, they are pleasing, the opposite of "dissonant" sounds which are harsh. WORD FAMILYconsonant: consonance, consonantal, consonantly, consonants+/consonance: consonances USAGE EXAMPLESI kept a list of my datelines and it is long, with many consonants in unusual places. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) Consonant with this strategy, the increasing sophistication of robots and other advanced automation will compel business to substitute robots for human labor. New York Times(Dec 08, 2016) Vowels are important to speech, for example, but so are consonants. New York Times(Dec 09, 2016) 1 1n a speech sound that is not a vowel Ant|Hypo|Hyper vowel, vowel sound a speech sound made with the vocal tract open alveolar, alveolar consonant, dental, dental consonant a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge obstruenta consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth aspiratea consonant pronounced with aspiration labial, labial consonanta consonant whose articulation involves movement of the lips labiodental, labiodental consonanta consonant whose articulation involves the lips and teeth nasal, nasal consonanta consonant produced through the nose with the mouth closed linguala consonant that is produced with the tongue and other speech organs liquida frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially `l' and `r') geminatea doubled or long consonant surd, voiceless consonanta consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords velar, velar consonanta consonant produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate guttural, guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonanta consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat occlusive, plosive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop, stop consonanta consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it bilabiala consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/ labial stopa stop consonant that is produced with the lips continuant, continuant consonantconsonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract affricate, affricate consonant, affricativea composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') phone, sound, speech sound (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language 2n a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant 2Hyper alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech 1adj involving or characterized by harmony Syn harmonic, harmonical, harmonised, harmonized harmonious musically pleasing 2adj in keeping Syn accordant, agreeable, concordant, conformable consistent (sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent or reliable |
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