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  • 81speech — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Oral communication Nouns 1. speech, talk, faculty of speech; locution, parlance, expression, vernacular, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion, discourse; soliloquy;… …

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  • 82surd — [[t]sɜrd[/t]] adj. 1) phn (of a speech sound) voiceless (opposed to sonant 2), a)). 2) math. (of a quantity) not capable of being expressed in rational numbers; irrational 3) phn a voiceless consonant 4) math. a surd quantity • Etymology:… …

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  • 83syllable — /ˈsɪləbəl / (say siluhbuhl) noun 1. Phonetics a segment of speech uttered with a single impulse of air pressure from the lungs, and consisting of one sound of relatively great sonority (see sonant def. 3a), with or without one or more… …

  • 84Hoffnung — 1. A Hööbh as an lungh Sial. (Amrum.) – Haupt, VIII, 369, 320; Johansen, 151. Die Hoffnung ist ein langes Seil. 2. An Hoffnung und gespanntem Tuche geht viel ab. Frz.: Vin versé n est pas avalé. 3. Bey Hoffnung ist allweg zweiffel. – Lehmann, 395 …

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  • 85speech 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 …

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