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['homənim](a word having the same sound as another word, but a different meaning: The words `there' and `their' are homonyms.) homonīms* * *homonīms
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sound — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gesund; akin to Old High German gisunt healthy Date: 13th century 1. a. free from injury or disease ; exhibiting normal health b. free from flaw, defect, or decay < sound timber > 2. solid … New Collegiate Dictionary
sound barrier — noun the increase in aerodynamic drag as an airplane approaches the speed of sound • Syn: ↑sonic barrier • Hypernyms: ↑drag, ↑retarding force * * * noun the sound barrier : the large increase in air resistance that occurs as an aircraft nears the … Useful english dictionary
sound projector — noun : a motion picture projector equipped to reproduce photographically and magnetically recorded sound from one or more sound tracks in synchronism with picture projection from the same film … Useful english dictionary
sound — I [[t]sa͟ʊnd[/t]] NOUN AND VERB USES ♦ sounds, sounding, sounded (Please look at category 12 to see if the expression you are looking for is shown under another headword.) 1) N COUNT A sound is something that you hear. Peter heard the sound of… … English dictionary
sound change — /ˈsaʊnd tʃeɪndʒ/ (say sownd chaynj) noun an alteration which, as the language develops over the centuries, affects all members of certain groups of speech sounds in the same way …
speech sound — noun (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language • Syn: ↑phone, ↑sound • Derivationally related forms: ↑sound (for: ↑sound), ↑phonic … Useful english dictionary
wall of sound — noun A popular music production technique, developed in the 1960s, in which a number of guitarists perform the same parts in unison and the resulting sound is re recorded in an echo chamber … Wiktionary
Proto-Indo-European to Dacian sound changes — NOTE: all html boxes in this article need to be replaced by another format. The Dacian language was a Satem Indo European Language.hort vowelsPIE has the short vowels e, o. The existence of the PIE short vowel a is disputed.The origin of the Late … Wikipedia
verbal noun — 1. A verbal noun (also called a gerund) is a form of a verb ending in ing that acts as a noun, for example smoking in the phrase no smoking and in the sentence Smoking damages your health. It should be distinguished from (identically formed)… … Modern English usage
Finnish language noun cases — Finnish nouns (including pronouns and numerals) as well as any modifying adjectives, superlatives or comparatives, can be declined by a large number of grammatical cases, which are detailed here. See also Finnish language grammar. TOC Finnish… … Wikipedia
Common noun — Common Com mon, a. [Compar. {Commoner}; superl. {Commonest}.] [OE. commun, comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Goth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English