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Meanings of continuant in English
Catalan
consonant contínua Consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract.
Russian
продолжающееся Entity that persists, endures, or continues to exist through time while maintaining its identity.
Synonyms
Examples for "strident"
Examples for "strident"
1
Whether they can bring more strident members along is a different question.
2
A strident English nationalist but someone at home with modern German literature.
3
The government put it through under urgency, amid strident protest from National.
4
Today's papers were equally strident - and optimistic - in their support.
5
Above the music he heard the childishly strident voice of the flapper:
1
The winds wailed sibilant and agonizing messages into the ears of Ootah:
2
He heard the soft sibilant sound of a breath drawn quickly in.
3
He hardly waited for the sibilant assurance before putting back the receiver.
4
There was a low, sibilant rise and fall-thebreathing of the creature.
5
Mortals. The last word turned sibilant, breathed out over a long while.
1
She whispered abruptly, stopping on a spirant sound.
2
Thus F came to be the representative of the unvoiced labiodental spirant instead of that for the bilabial voiced spirant.
3
He thinks that the guttural element in x was a spirant, and therefore different from ch, which is an aspirate.
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.
1
Go ahead, try that pharyngeal fricative yourself-butmaybe practice with some tongue twisters first.
2
Luckily, dialect coach Erik Singer is here to help you distinguish a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative from a uvular plosive.
3
It creaks open on ancient hinges, its bottom edge scraping against the floor with the fricative sound of wood against wood.
4
The analytical part of her linguist's brain began to collate, to catalog the distinctive staccato fricatives, but Carrianne forestalled her.
5
"Thiff is our cue to go." When he attempted a fricative, his busted lips blew a fine spray of blood.
Translations for continuant
Catalan