Term Gallery logo

Meanings of fricative consonant in English

Russian
фрикативные согласные
Portuguese
consoante fricativa
Catalan
consonant fricativa
Spanish
consonante fricativa

Consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

        фрикативные согласные
        Synonyms
        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
        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