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Part of Speech: noun
Results: 7
4. A transitional
sound in speech
which is produced
by the changing of the mouth organs
from one definite position
to another,
and with gradual change in the most frequent cases;
as in passing from the begining
to the end of a
regular diphthong,
or from vowel to consonant
or consonant
to vowel in a
syllable,
or from one component
to the other of a
double or diphthongal consonant (
see Guide to Pronunciation, // 19, 161, 162).
Also (
by Bell and others),
the vanish (
or brief final element)
or the brief initial element,
in a
class of diphthongal vowels,
or the brief final or initial part of some consonants (
see Guide to Pronunciation, // 18, 97, 191).
Part of Speech: verb
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