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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>PHON</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="phoenix"> Phoenix, noun, genitive Phoenicis.<DL COMPACT><DD> a southern constellation. </DL> <A NAME="phon"> phon, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the unit for measuring the level of loudness of sound, especially of complex sound. Ex. A 60-decibel sound with a frequency of 1,000 vibrations a second has a loudness of 60 phons (Robert T. Beyer). </DL> <A NAME="phon"> phon-,<DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) the form of phono- before vowels, as in phonic. </DL> <A NAME="phon"> phon.,<DL COMPACT><DD> phonetics. </DL> <A NAME="phonasthenia"> phonasthenia, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> weakness of the voice from fatigue. </DL> <A NAME="phonate"> phonate, transitive verb, intransitive verb, -nated, -nating.<DL COMPACT><DD> to utter (speech sounds); sound vocally. </DL> <A NAME="phonation"> phonation, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the production or utterance of vocal sound, usually as distinguished from articulation. <DD> 2. vocal utterance; voice production. </DL> <A NAME="phonautograph"> phonautograph, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an early automatic apparatus for indicating the vibrations of sound graphically, having a membrane set in vibration by sound waves and having a stylus attached which makes a tracing on a revolving cylinder. </DL> <A NAME="phonautographic"> phonautographic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a phonautograph. </DL> <A NAME="phone"> phone (1), noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, phoned, phoning.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) telephone. </DL> <A NAME="phone"> phone (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Phonetics.) a speech sound. Ex. ... [the linguistic scientist] begins by breaking up the flow of speech into minimum sound-units, or phones (W. Nelson Francis). </DL> <A NAME="phone"> -phone,<DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) sound, as in megaphone, microphone, saxophone, xylophone. </DL> <A NAME="phonebank"> phone bank,<DL COMPACT><DD> a group of telephones connected to the same number used to canvass voters, survey consumers, or raise money for some cause or institution. Ex. Senator Bentsen's organization and his phone banks and his campaign pushed the turnout way up (Atlantic). </DL> <A NAME="phonein"> phone-in, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a radio or television program centered around people who call the studio by telephone to ask questions or air opinions. </DL> <A NAME="phonematic"> phonematic, adjective. =phonemic.</DL> <A NAME="phonematics"> phonematics, noun. =phonemics.</DL> <A NAME="phoneme"> phoneme, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (Linguistics.) one of a group of distinctive sounds that make up the words of a language; the smallest significant unit of speech in a language. The words cat and bat are distinguished by their initial phonemes /k/ and /b/. A phoneme comprises several slightly different sounds (allophones) the differences between which are not meaningful. The p in pit and the p in ship, though differing slightly in pronunciation, belong to the one phoneme /p/. Ex. And one contrast anywhere in the language is enough to establish separate phonemes elsewhere in the language (George P. Faust). <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) phone (2). </DL> <A NAME="phonemic"> phonemic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of or having to do with phonemics. Ex. a phonemic analysis of speech sounds. <DD> 2. having to do with or involving phonemes. Ex. The difference between "p" and "b" is phonemic in English. adv. phonemically. </DL> <A NAME="phonemics"> phonemics, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of linguistics dealing with phonemes. Ex. ... phonemics is phonetics systematized (Simeon Potter). </DL> <A NAME="phonephreak"> phone phreak,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a person who tampers with the telephone to make free calls. </DL> <A NAME="phonet"> phonet.,<DL COMPACT><DD> phonetics. </DL> <A NAME="phonetic"> phonetic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of or having to do with sounds made with the voice. Phonetic exercises are drills in pronunciation. <DD> 2a. representing sounds made with the voice; indicating pronunciation. Phonetic symbols are used to show pronunciation. We use o as the phonetic symbol of o in photo. <DD> b. of or having to do with phonetics; having each sound represented by one letter and each letter represent one sound. </DL> <A NAME="phonetical"> phonetical, adjective. =phonetic.</DL> <A NAME="phonetically"> phonetically, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a phonetic manner; as regards the sound and not the spelling of words. </DL> <A NAME="phoneticalphabet"> phonetic alphabet,<DL COMPACT><DD> a set of characters or symbols for transcribing speech sounds, in which each character or symbol represents one distinct sound. </DL> <A NAME="phonetician"> phonetician, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an expert in phonetics. </DL> <A NAME="phoneticist"> phoneticist, noun. =phonetician.</DL> <A NAME="phoneticize"> phoneticize, transitive verb, -cized, -cizing.<DL COMPACT><DD> to represent or spell phonetically. Ex. [He] had made a pleasant speech to the company carefully phoneticized in Russian (London Times). </DL> <A NAME="phonetics"> phonetics, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the science dealing with sounds made in speech and the art of pronunciation. Phonetics is a branch of linguistics. Phonetics is concerned with the production of these speech sounds by the articulating organs of the speaker, the sound waves in which they result, and the auditory effect they produce on the hearer. <DD> 2. the body of speech sounds of any one language, their manner of articulation, and their relation to one another. <DD> 3. the application of the science of speech sounds to the learning of languages. </DL> <A NAME="phonetism"> phonetism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the use of a phonetic system of writing or spelling. </DL> <A NAME="phonetist"> phonetist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. =phonetician. <DD> 2. a supporter or user of phonetic spelling. </DL> <A NAME="phoney"> phoney, adjective, -nier, -niest, noun, pl. -neys, transitive verb, -neyed, -neying. =phony.</DL> <A NAME="phoneyness"> phoneyness, noun. =phoniness.</DL> <A NAME="phongyi"> phongyi, noun. =pongyi.</DL> <A NAME="phoniatrics"> phoniatrics, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the treatment of speech defects. </DL> <A NAME="phonic"> phonic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of or having to do with sound. <DD> 2. of sounds made in speech; phonetic. Ex. The phonic system of the language he speaks is quite different from the system ... which the reading primers use (Harper's). <DD> 3. =voiced. </DL> <A NAME="phonics"> phonics, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a method of teaching reading by the association of letters and combinations of letters with their appropriate speech sounds; simplified phonetics for teaching reading. <DD> 2. the science of sound; acoustics. <DD> 3. (Obsolete.) phonetics. </DL> <A NAME="phonily"> phonily, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) in a phony manner; falsely. </DL> <A NAME="phoniness"> phoniness, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) phony quality or character; sham. </DL> <A NAME="phono"> phono-,<DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) sound; sounds. Ex. Phonology = the system of sounds (used in a language). <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, phon- before vowels. </DL> </DL> <A NAME="phonoangiography"> phonoangiography, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> examination of blood vessels by monitoring the sound made by the bloodstream. Ex. The sound of blood flowing through the vessels is picked up by a sensitive microphone, recorded on magnetic tape, and analyzed by phonoangiography--a new method of locating and estimating size of arterial obstructions (Michael E. DeBakey). </DL> <A NAME="phonocardiogram"> phonocardiogram, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the record made by a phonocardiograph. </DL> <A NAME="phonocardiograph"> phonocardiograph, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a device that graphically represents on a photographic film the sounds of the heart. Ex. Working with the electrocardiograph, ... the phonocardiograph is of particular value in detecting types of heart disease curable by surgery (Family Weekly). </DL> <A NAME="phonocardiography"> phonocardiography, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the graphic recording of the sounds of the heart by means of a phonocardiograph. Ex. His problem was to find a way of quietening pregnant women so that the technique of phonocardiography could be used to record the heart-beats of the unborn child (New Scientist). </DL> <A NAME="phonodisc"> phonodisc, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a phonograph record. </DL> <A NAME="phonofilm"> Phonofilm, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Trademark.) an early form of sound track invented by Lee De Forest, an American inventor. </DL> <A NAME="phonogram"> phonogram, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a character or symbol representing a single speech sound, syllable, or word. <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) a phonograph record. </DL> <A HREF="phonolit.dic">NEXT</A>