Labial

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Labial \La"bi*al\, n.
     1. (Phonetics) A letter or character representing an
        articulation or sound formed or uttered chiefly with the
        lips, as {b}, {p}, {w}.
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     2. (Mus.) An organ pipe that is furnished with lips; a flue
        pipe.
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     3. (Zool.) One of the scales which border the mouth of a fish
        or reptile.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Labial \La"bi*al\, a. [LL. labialis, fr. L. labium lip: cf. F.
     labial. See {Lip}.]
     1. Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins.
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     2. (Mus.) Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe.
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     3. (Phonetics)
        (a) Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b,
            p, m, w.
        (b) Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip
            opening, as [=oo] (f[=oo]d), [=o] ([=o]ld), etc., and
            as eu and u in French, and ["o], ["u] in German. See
            Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 11, 178.
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     4. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the labium; as, the labial
        palpi of insects. See {Labium}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  labial
       adj 1: of or relating to the lips of the mouth; "labial stops"
       2: relating to or near the female labium
       n : a consonant whose articulation involves movement of the lips
           [syn: {labial consonant}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  127 Moby Thesaurus words for "labial":
     accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar,
     apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated,
     assimilation, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central,
     cerebral, check, checked, close, consonant, consonantal,
     continuant, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal,
     epenthetic vowel, explosive, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal,
     glottalization, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated,
     labialization, labiate, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal,
     lateral, lax, light, lingual, lipped, liquid, low,
     manner of articulation, mid, modification, monophthong,
     monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute, muted, narrow, nasal,
     nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized,
     parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization,
     pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch,
     pitched, plosive, posttonic, prothetic vowel, retroflex, rounded,
     segmental phoneme, semivowel, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound,
     stop, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syllabic nucleus,
     syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic,
     transition sound, triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unrounded,
     unstressed, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced,
     voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel,
     vowellike, weak, wide