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  • English Word Phonetize Definition To represent by phonetic signs.
  • English Word Phonic Definition Of or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound; acoustic.
  • English Word Phonics Definition See Phonetics.
  • English Word Phono Definition A South American butterfly (Ithonia phono) having nearly transparent wings.
  • English Word Phono- Definition A combining form from Gr. / sound, tone; as, phonograph, phonology.
  • English Word Phonocamptic Definition Reflecting sound.
  • English Word Phonogram Definition A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.
  • English Word Phonogram Definition A record of sounds made by a phonograph.
  • English Word Phonograph Definition A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.
  • English Word Phonograph Definition An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound.
  • English Word Phonographer Definition One versed or skilled in phonography.
  • English Word Phonographer Definition One who uses, or is skilled in the use of, the phonograph. See Phonograph, 2.
  • English Word Phonographic Definition Alt. of Phonographical
  • English Word Phonographical Definition Of or pertaining to phonography; based upon phonography.
  • English Word Phonographical Definition Of or pertaining to phonograph; done by the phonograph.
  • English Word Phonographically Definition In a phonographic manner; by means of phonograph.
  • English Word Phonographist Definition Phonographer.
  • English Word Phonography Definition A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.
  • English Word Phonography Definition A representation of sounds by distinctive characters; commonly, a system of shorthand writing invented by Isaac Pitman, or a modification of his system, much used by reporters.
  • English Word Phonography Definition The art of constructing, or using, the phonograph.
  • English Word Phonolite Definition A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, hauynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; -- called also clinkstone.
  • English Word Phonologer Definition A phonologist.
  • English Word Phonologic Definition Alt. of Phonological
  • English Word Phonological Definition Of or pertaining to phonology.
  • English Word Phonologist Definition One versed in phonology.
  • English Word Phonology Definition The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise on sounds.
  • English Word Phonometer Definition An instrument for measuring sounds, as to their intensity, or the frequency of the vibrations.
  • English Word Phonomotor Definition An instrument in which motion is produced by the vibrations of a sounding body.
  • English Word Phonorganon Definition A speaking machine.
  • English Word Phonoscope Definition An instrument for observing or exhibiting the motions or properties of sounding bodies; especially, an apparatus invented by Konig for testing the quality of musical strings.