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Meanings of continuant in English

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consonant contínua

Consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract.

      consonant contínua
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      продолжающееся

      Entity that persists, endures, or continues to exist through time while maintaining its identity.

            продолжающееся

            Of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')

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                  Constant.

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                        Examples for "strident"
                        Examples for "strident"
                        1
                        Whether they can bring more strident members along is a different question.
                        Reuters
                        2
                        A strident English nationalist but someone at home with modern German literature.
                        The Irish Times
                        3
                        The government put it through under urgency, amid strident protest from National.
                        Radio NZ
                        4
                        Today's papers were equally strident - and optimistic - in their support.
                        The Guardian
                        5
                        Above the music he heard the childishly strident voice of the flapper:
                        A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
                        1
                        The winds wailed sibilant and agonizing messages into the ears of Ootah:
                        The Eternal Maiden
                        2
                        He heard the soft sibilant sound of a breath drawn quickly in.
                        The Shadow of the East
                        3
                        He hardly waited for the sibilant assurance before putting back the receiver.
                        Who Cares? A Story of Adolescence
                        4
                        There was a low, sibilant rise and fall-thebreathing of the creature.
                        The Lost World
                        5
                        Mortals. The last word turned sibilant, breathed out over a long while.
                        Walking dead
                        1
                        She whispered abruptly, stopping on a spirant sound.
                        The last page
                        2
                        Thus F came to be the representative of the unvoiced labiodental spirant instead of that for the bilabial voiced spirant.
                        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
                        3
                        He thinks that the guttural element in x was a spirant, and therefore different from ch, which is an aspirate.
                        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
                        4
                        Orgos produced a pair of neatly rolled parchments and answered, with a Cherrati hand gesture, I am Alberro Spirant and this is my apprentice, Geoffrey.
                        Act of will
                        1
                        Go ahead, try that pharyngeal fricative yourself-butmaybe practice with some tongue twisters first.
                        Wired
                        2
                        Luckily, dialect coach Erik Singer is here to help you distinguish a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative from a uvular plosive.
                        Wired
                        3
                        It creaks open on ancient hinges, its bottom edge scraping against the floor with the fricative sound of wood against wood.
                        A Hundred Thousand Worlds
                        4
                        The analytical part of her linguist's brain began to collate, to catalog the distinctive staccato fricatives, but Carrianne forestalled her.
                        The Scar
                        5
                        "Thiff is our cue to go." When he attempted a fricative, his busted lips blew a fine spray of blood.
                        The Fireman