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vowel

/vou-uhl/US // ˈvaʊ əl //UK // (ˈvaʊəl) //

韵母,韵律,元音,声母

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Phonetics. a speech sound produced without occluding, diverting, or obstructing the flow of air from the lungs. the sound of greatest sonority, as i in grill.Compare consonant. a concept empirically determined as a phonological element in structural contrast with consonant, as the of be, we, and yeast.
    • : a letter representing or usually representing a vowel, as, in English, a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to a vowel.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Note that there’s no rule that says you can’t drop one single vowel and put that same vowel back one letter over.

  • So for this contest — which of course is an arbitrary game and not a linguistic study — A, E, I, O and U will always be vowels.

  • The most popular six-letter cheese in puzzles is ASIAGO, with its many vowels making it relatively easy to fit into a grid.

  • Just pop the silicone lips into your mouth and repeat vowel sounds, according to directions, for a “more youthful, vibrant” face.

  • These include traditional names with feminine qualities such as softer sounds and/or vowel endings: Joshua, Sebastian, Elijah.

  • Here we see an au naturel Moore, bra-less in faded rock T-shirts and vowel-mangling California accent.

  • Edelstein also urges you to “explore” certain vowel sounds, stress antitheses in the passages, and get into character (sometimes).

  • These are the names of American politics in the 21st century—continent-hopping and vowel-heavy.

  • The readings pleye, pley are evidently false; the scribe has omitted the stroke for n above the vowel.

  • Moreover, the rime is a false one, since swote and aboute have different vowel-sounds.

  • In the orthography of the Félibres the diagraph ue is used as we find it in Old French to represent this vowel.

  • It is to be noted here that the adverb has the vowel of the old feminine termination a, and not the modern o.

  • It seems best to follow the majority, especially as they allow suffice to be followed by a vowel, thus eliding the final e.