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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.