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Definition of consonant
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Consonant
(a.)
Having
like
sounds.
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Republican
::
Republican
(a.)
Consonant
with the
principles
of a
republic;
as,
republican
sentiments
or
opinions;
republican
manners..
Lingual
::
Lingual
(n.) A
consonant
sound
formed
by the aid of the
tongue;
-- a term
especially
applied
to
certain
articulations
(as those of t, d, th, and n) and to the
letters
denoting
them..
Rightful
::
Rightful
(a.)
Consonant
to
justice;
just; as, a
rightful
cause..
Accordant
::
Accordant
(a.)
Agreeing;
consonant;
harmonious;
corresponding;
conformable;
--
followed
by with or to.
T
::
T () the
twentieth
letter
of the
English
alphabet,
is a
nonvocal
consonant.
With the
letter
h it forms the
digraph
th, which has two
distinct
sounds,
as in thin, then. See Guide to
Pronunciation,
//262-264,
and also
//153,
156, 169, 172, 176,
178-180..
Consonantness
::
Consonantness
(n.) The
quality
or
condition
of being
consonant,
agreeable,
or
consistent..
Aspirate
::
Aspirate
(v. t.) To
pronounce
with a
breathing,
an
aspirate,
or an h
sound;
as, we
aspirate
the words horse and
house;
to
aspirate
a vowel or a
liquid
consonant..
V
::
V () V, the
twenty-second
letter
of the
English
alphabet,
is a vocal
consonant.
V and U are only
varieties
of the same
character,
U being the
cursive
form, while V is
better
adapted
for
engraving,
as in
stone.
The two
letters
were
formerly
used
indiscriminately,
and till a
comparatively
recent
date words
containing
them were often
classed
together
in
dictionaries
and other books of
reference
(see U). The
letter
V is from the Latin
alphabet,
where it was used both as a
consonant
(about
like Engli
Y
::
Y () Y, the
twenty-fifth
letter
of the
English
alphabet,
at the
beginning
of a word or
syllable,
except
when a
prefix
(see Y-), is
usually
a
fricative
vocal
consonant;
as a
prefix,
and
usually
in the
middle
or at the end of a
syllable,
it is a
vowel.
See Guide to
Pronunciation,
// 145,
178-9,
272..
Lene
::
Lene (n.) Any one of the lene
consonants,
as p, k, or t (or Gr. /, /, /)..
Unaccountable
::
Unaccountable
(a.) Not to be
accounted
for;
inexplicable;
not
consonant
with
reason
or rule;
strange;
mysterious.
Mouille
::
Mouille
(a.)
Applied
to
certain
consonants
having
a
liquid
or
softened
sound;
e.g., in
French,
l or ll and gn (like the lli in
million
and ni in
minion);
in
Italian,
gl and gn; in
Spanish,
ll and –; in
Portuguese,
lh and nh..
L
::
L () L is the
twelfth
letter
of the
English
alphabet,
and a vocal
consonant.
It is
usually
called
a
semivowel
or
liquid.
Its form and value are from the
Greek,
through
the
Latin,
the form of the Greek
letter
being from the
Phoenician,
and the
ultimate
origin
prob.
Egyptian.
Etymologically,
it is most
closely
related
to r and u; as in
pilgrim,
peregrine,
couch (fr.
collocare),
aubura
(fr. LL.
alburnus)..
Sonant
::
Sonant
(a.)
Uttered,
as an
element
of
speech,
with tone or
proper
vocal
sound,
as
distinguished
from mere
breath
sound;
intonated;
voiced;
tonic;
the
opposite
of
nonvocal,
or surd; -- sid of the
vowels,
semivowels,
liquids,
and
nasals,
and
particularly
of the
consonants
b, d, g hard, v, etc., as
compared
with their
cognates
p, t, k, f, etc., which are
called
nonvocal,
surd, or
aspirate..
Interdental
::
Interdental
(a.)
Formed
between
the upper and lower
teeth;
as,
interdental
consonants..
J
::
"J () J is the tenth
letter
of the
English
alphabet.
It is a later
variant
form of the Roman
letter
I, used to
express
a
consonantal
sound,
that is,
originally,
the sound of
English
y in yet. The forms J and I have, until a
recent
time, been
classed
together,
and they have been used
interchangeably..
U
::
U () the
twenty-first
letter
of the
English
alphabet,
is a
cursive
form of the
letter
V, with which it was
formerly
used
interchangeably,
both
letters
being then used both as
vowels
and
consonants.
U and V are now,
however,
differentiated,
U being used only as a vowel or
semivowel,
and V only as a
consonant.
The true
primary
vowel sound of U, in
Anglo-Saxon,
was the sound which it still
retains
in most of the
languages
of
Europe,
that of long oo, as in tool, and short oo, as in wood,
answering
t
Cerebral
::
Cerebral
(n.) One of a class of
lingual
consonants
in the East
Indian
languages.
See
Lingual,
n..
Syllable
::
Syllable
(n.) An
elementary
sound,
or a
combination
of
elementary
sounds,
uttered
together,
or with a
single
effort
or
impulse
of the
voice,
and
constituting
a word or a part of a word. In other
terms,
it is a vowel or a
diphtong,
either
by
itself
or
flanked
by one or more
consonants,
the whole
produced
by a
single
impulse
or
utterance.
One of the
liquids,
l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a
syllable.
Adjoining
syllables
in a word or
phrase
need not to be
marked
off by a
pause,
but only
Nonvocal
::
Nonvocal
(n.) A
nonvocal
consonant.
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