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Definition: Speech Sound |
Speech SoundNoun1. (linguistics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Speech SoundSynonyms: phone (n), sound (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Speech Sound |
| English words defined with "speech sound": affricate, affricate consonant, affricative ♦ bilabial ♦ consonant ♦ orinasal, orinasal phone ♦ phonetic symbol, phonetic transcription ♦ Rounding ♦ sonant, suprasegmental ♦ voiced sound, vowel, vowel sound. (references) |
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Health | Whereas a large proportion of the energy in speech is contained within the low-frequency range, much of the information required to differentiate one speech sound from another is contained within the higher frequencies. (references) | |
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Expression using "speech sound": plosive speech sound. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "speech sound"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | talelyd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | spraakgeluid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puheääni (voice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | son vocal, son conversationnel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Sprach-Laut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ήχος ομιλίας. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | beszédhang. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | suono vocale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eechspay oundsay som vocal. (various references) sonido vocal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-h-n-o-p-s-s-u" | |
-3 letters: censused, espoused, hocussed, penoches, penuches, secondes, spondees. | |
-4 letters: choused, chouses, cohunes, depones, deposes, douches, duchess, dueness, dunches, encodes, escudos, espouse, hocused, hocuses, penoche, penuche, pouched, pouches, pounced, pounces, pseudos, punched, punches, seconde, seconds, seduces, sendups, speedos, spences, sphenes, spondee, spoused, suspend, unhoped, unposed, upsends. | |
-5 letters: censed, censes, census, cessed, cheeps, chosen, choses, chouse. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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