Phonetic

3 definitions found

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

  Phonetic \Pho*net"ic\ (f[-o]*n[e^]t"[i^]k), a. [Gr. fwnhtiko`s,
     fr. fwnh` a sound, tone; akin to Gr. fa`nai to speak: cf. F.
     phon['e]tique. See {Ban} a proclamation.]
     1. Of or pertaining to the voice, or its use.
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     2. Representing sounds; as, phonetic characters; -- opposed
        to {ideographic}; as, a phonetic notation.
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     {Phonetic spelling}, spelling in phonetic characters, each
        representing one sound only; -- contrasted with {Romanic
        spelling}, or that by the use of the Roman alphabet.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  phonetic
       adj 1: of or relating to speech sounds; "phonetic transcription"
              [syn: {phonic}]
       2: of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds;
          "phonetic analysis"

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

  130 Moby Thesaurus words for "phonetic":
     accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental,
     arrowhead, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial,
     broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, character, checked, close,
     consonant, consonantal, continuant, cuneiform, demotic character,
     dental, descriptive, determinative, dissimilated, dorsal, flat,
     front, glide, glossal, glottal, glottochronological, grammalogue,
     grammatic, graphemic, guttural, hard, heavy, hieratic symbol,
     hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, high, hiragana, ideogram,
     ideograph, intonated, kana, katakana, labial, labiodental,
     labiovelar, lateral, lax, lexicographic, lexicological,
     lexicostatistical, light, lingual, linguistic, liquid, logogram,
     logograph, low, metalinguistic, mid, monophthongal, morphological,
     morphophonemic, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, ogham,
     open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized,
     philological, phonemic, phonetic symbol, phonic, phonological,
     pictogram, pictograph, pitch, pitched, posttonic, psycholinguistic,
     radical, retroflex, rounded, rune, semantic, semivowel, shorthand,
     soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, structural, surd,
     syllabic, syntactic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy,
     unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced,
     voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wedge, wide, word letter