| 单词 | strident |
| 释义 | strident —stridence, stridency, n. —stridently, adv. /struyd"nt/, adj. 1. making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges. 2. having a shrill, irritating quality or character: a strident tone in his writings. 3. Ling. (in distinctive feature analysis) characterized acoustically by noise of relatively high intensity, as sibilants, labiodental and uvular fricatives, and most affricates. [1650-60; < L strident- (s. of stridens), prp. of stridere to make a harsh noise; see -ENT] |
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