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trichostrongyliasis
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phonetic (iou)



phonetic adjective & noun. E19.
[mod. Latin phoneticus from Greek phonetikos, from phonetos to be spoken, pa. ppl formation from phonein speak, from phone sound, voice: see -ETIC.]
A. adjective.
1. a. Designating characters in ancient Writing that represent sounds rather than ideas or objects. E19.
b. Designating (a) spelling in which each letter represents invariably the same spoken sound; designating a symbol used in such spelling. M19.
phonetic alphabet: see ALPHABET noun 2.
2. Of or pertaining to speech sounds or phonetics; consisting of speech sounds. M19.
O. Jespersen The greatest revolution..in the phonetic system of English is the vowel-shift.
B. noun.
1. A Chinese character used to form part of another character having the same or a similar sound. Cf. RADICAL noun 1b. M19.
2. In pl. (treated as pl. or, now usu., sing.). The branch of linguistics that deals with speech sounds, esp. as physical rather than semantic phenomena. M19.
phonetically adverb in a phonetic manner; in relation to speech sound; according to sound or pronunciation: E19.
phonetician noun an expert in or student of phonetics M19.
phoneticism noun (a) phonetic quality; the phonetic system of Writing or spelling; (an instance of) phonetic spelling; (b) use of the criterion of phonetic similarity to determine the phonemes of a language: L19.
phoneticist noun (a) an advocate of phonetic spelling; (b) a phonetician: M19.
phoneticization noun (a) (an instance of) phonetic spelling; (b) (greater) correlation of symbol and sound in a Writing system: E20.
phoneticize verb trans. make phonetic, write phonetically M19.