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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