adj.
1. Being in agreement or accord: remarks consonant with our own beliefs.
2. Corresponding or alike in sound, as words or syllables.
3. Harmonious in sound or tone.
n.
1. A speech sound produced by a partial or complete obstruction of the air stream by any of various constrictions of the speech organs, such as (p), (f), (r), (w), and (h).
2. A letter or character representing such a speech sound.
vowel:
n.
1. A speech sound, such as (
) or (
), created by the relatively free passage of breath through the larynx and oral cavity, usually forming the most prominent and central sound of a syllable.
2. A letter, such as a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y in the English alphabet, that represents a vowel.
Diphthong:
n
1. (Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) a vowel sound, occupying a single syllable, during the articulation of which the tongue moves from one position to another, causing a continual change in vowel quality, as in the pronunciation of a in English late, during which the tongue moves from the position of (e) towards (ɪ).
2. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) a digraph or ligature representing a composite vowel such as this, as ae in Caesar
Pronunciation:
KESTREL
crow
1. A bird of the genus
Corvus; in England commonly applied to the Carrion Crow (
Corvus Corone), ‘a large black bird that feeds upon the carcasses of beasts’ (Johnson); in the north of England, Scotland, and Ireland to the Rook,
C. frugilegus; in U.S. to a closely allied gregarious species,
C. americanus.
2. With qualifications, as hooded, Kentish, or Royston crow, Corvus Cornix; red-legged crow, C. Graculus; fish crow of America, C. ossifragus or C. caurinus; CARRION-CROW, etc.; also applied to birds outside the genus or family, as mire crow, sea crow, names for Larus ridibundus; scare crow, the Black Tern (Hydrochelidon nigra); blue crow, a crow-like jay of N. America, Gymnocitta cyanocephala; piping crows, the birds of the sub-family Gymnorhininæ or Streperinæ; and others.
spanish :
v: cacarear
n: cuervo
philology
1. Love of learning and literature; the branch of knowledge that deals with the historical, linguistic, interpretative, and critical aspects of literature; literary or classical scholarship. Now chiefly U.S.
By the late 19th cent. this general sense had become rare, but it was revived, principally in the United States, in the early 20th cent. For a fuller discussion of this, see A. Morpurgo Davies Hist. Linguistics (1998) 4 I. 22.
2. The branch of knowledge that deals with the structure, historical development, and relationships of languages or language families; the historical study of the phonology and morphology of languages; historical linguistics. See also comparative philology at COMPARATIVE adj. 1b.
This sense has never been current in the United States, and is increasingly rare in British use. Linguistics is now the more usual term for the study of the structure of language, and (often with qualifying adjective, as historical, comparative, etc.) has generally replaced philology.
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