| 单词 | liaison |
| 释义 | liaison /lee'ay zawonn", lee"euh zon', -zeuhn/ or, often, /lay"-; lee ay"zeuhn, -zon/; Fr. /lye zawonn"/, n. , pl. liaisons /-zawonnz", -zonz', -zeuhnz, -zonz/; Fr. /-zawonn"/. 1. the contact or connection maintained by communications between units of the armed forces or of any other organization in order to ensure concerted action, cooperation, etc. 2. a person who initiates and maintains such a contact or connection. 3. an illicit sexual relationship. 4. Cookery. the process of thickening sauces, soups, etc., as by the addition of eggs, cream, butter, or flour. 5. Phonet. a speech-sound redistribution, occurring esp. in French, in which an otherwise silent final consonant is articulated as the initial sound of a following syllable that begins with a vowel or with a silent h, as the z- and n-sounds in Je suis un homme /zheu swee zue nawm"/. [1640-50; < F, OF < L ligation- (s. of ligatio) a binding. See LIGATION] |
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