Word Meanings - SEMIVOWEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y. The sign or letter representing such a sound.

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• CONSONANT
  An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound. Note: Consonants are divided into
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• PARTAKE
  1. To partake of; to have a part or share in; to share. Let every one partake the general joy. Driden. 2. To admit to a share; to cause to participate; to give a part to. Spencer. 3. To distribute; to communicate. Shak.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• ENGLISH
  A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. The King's, or Queen's, English. See under King. (more info) 1. Collectively, the people of England;
• VOWELIZE
  To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.
• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• VOWEL
  A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a consonant in
• PARTAKER
  1. One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27. Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark. 2. An accomplice; an associate; a partner. Partakers wish them in the blood of the prophets. Matt. xxiii. 30.
• VOWELISM
  The use of vowels.
• REPRESENTATIVELY
  In a representative manner; vicariously.
• LETTERN
  See LECTURN
• LETTER
  A single type; type, collectively; a style of type. Under these buildings . . . was the king's printing house, and that famous letter so much esteemed. Evelyn. 6. pl. (more info) litera, a letter; pl., an epistle, a writing, literature, fr. linere,
• SOUNDING BALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• SOUND-BOARD
  A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
• LETTERPRESS
  Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• DEMINATURED
  Having half the nature of another. Shak.
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• TIME SIGNATURE
  A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• ORNATURE
  Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed.
• CONSIGNATURE
  Joint signature. Colgrave.