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Definition of consonant
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Consonant
(a.) Of or
pertaining
to
consonants;
made up of, or
containing
many,
consonants..
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Soft
::
Soft
(superl.)
Applied
to a
palatal,
a
sibilant,
or a
dental
consonant
(as g in gem, c in cent, etc.) as
distinguished
from a
guttural
mute (as g in go, c in cone,
etc.);
--
opposed
to
hard..
Shut
::
Shut (a.) Cut off
sharply
and
abruptly
by a
following
consonant
in the same
syllable,
as the
English
short
vowels,
/, /, /, /, /,
always
are..
Articulation
::
Articulation
(n.) A sound made by the vocal
organs;
an
articulate
utterance
or an
elementary
sound,
esp. a
consonant..
Concord
::
Concord
(n.) An
agreeable
combination
of tones
simultaneously
heard;
a
consonant
chord;
consonance;
harmony.
Velar
::
Velar (a.)
Having
the place of
articulation
on the soft
palate;
guttural;
as, the velar
consonants,
such as k and hard q..
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)..
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..
Breathe
::
Breathe
(v. t.) To utter
without
vocality,
as the
nonvocal
consonants..
Lene
::
Lene (n.) Any one of the lene
consonants,
as p, k, or t (or Gr. /, /, /)..
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
Consonant
::
Consonant
(n.) An
articulate
sound which in
utterance
is
usually
combined
and
sounded
with an open sound
called
a
vowel;
a
member
of the
spoken
alphabet
other than a
vowel;
also, a
letter
or
character
representing
such a
sound..
Retardation
::
Retardation
(n.) The
keeping
back of an
approaching
consonant
chord by
prolonging
one or more tones of a
previous
chord into the
intermediate
chord which
follows;
--
differing
from
suspension
by
resolving
upwards
instead
of
downwards.
Glide
::
Glide (n.) A
transitional
sound in
speech
which is
produced
by the
changing
of the mouth
organs
from one
definite
position
to
another,
and with
gradual
change
in the most
frequent
cases;
as in
passing
from the
begining
to the end of a
regular
diphthong,
or from vowel to
consonant
or
consonant
to vowel in a
syllable,
or from one
component
to the other of a
double
or
diphthongal
consonant
(see Guide to
Pronunciation,
// 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and
others),
the
vanish
(or brief final
element)
D
::
D () The
fourth
letter
of the
English
alphabet,
and a vocal
consonant.
The
English
letter
is from
Latin,
which is from
Greek,
which took it from
Ph/nician,
the
probable
ultimate
origin
being
Egyptian.
It is
related
most
nearly
to t and th; as, Eng. deep, G. tief; Eng.
daughter,
G.
tochter,
Gr.
qyga`thr,
Skr.
duhitr.
See Guide to
Pronunciation,
Ã178,
179, 229..
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..
Uniform
::
Uniform
(a.) Of the same form with
others;
agreeing
with each
other;
conforming
to one rule or mode;
consonant.
Subtonic
::
Subtonic
(n.) A
subtonic
sound or
element;
a vocal
consonant,
as b, d, g, n, etc.; a
subvocal..
Stopper
::
Stopped
(a.) Made by
complete
closure
of the mouth
organs;
shut; -- said of
certain
consonants
(p, b, t, d,
etc.)..
Assonance
::
Assonance
(n.) A
peculiar
species
of
rhyme,
in which the last
acce`ted
vow`l and tnose whioh
follow
it in one word
correspond
in sound with the
vowels
of
another
word, while the
consonants
of the two words are
unlike
in
sound;
as,
calamo
and
platano,
baby and
chary..
Unaccountable
::
Unaccountable
(a.) Not to be
accounted
for;
inexplicable;
not
consonant
with
reason
or rule;
strange;
mysterious.
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