Definition of consonant in English:

consonant

noun ˈkɒns(ə)nəntˈkɑnsənənt

1A basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed and which can be combined with a vowel to form a syllable.
辅音。与VOWEL 相对
fricatives are by far the largest group of English consonants
Contrasted with vowel
Example sentencesExamples
- When his operas are sung in any other language, the shift in vowels, consonants, and rhythms changes the character of the music.
- The prototypical noun may be (though need not be) quite long, stress will fall early in the word, the stressed vowel will be non-front, and the final consonant (if an obstruent) will be voiceless.
- The word spilled out of her in a hushed stream of syllables, that awful combination of consonants and vowels that spelled shame and death for any woman in what was politely called the ‘entertainment’ business.
- Because the learner has become competent with the short vowels, consonants, and consonant blends, he or she can now concentrate on mastering the long-vowel spelling forms.
- He had a wonderful provincial accent, with all the ‘wrong’ vowels and unexpected extra consonants, which made the simplest word mysterious to my ears and his tales fun to hear for even the tenth time.
- Obviously, you haven't heard me brutalize the combinations of consonants and vowels that sound so exquisite when spoken by a Chinese.
- The preference for open syllables which end in vowels rather than consonants may, however, derive from universal developmental tendencies as well as from substratum influence.
- Articulation in singing is produced by such techniques as portamento or the taking of breaths, and by the treatment of vowels and consonants.
- Most of the vowels and consonants that do not occur at the ends of words have pronunciations similar to those of western European languages, but there are some differences.
- It is comprised of about twice as many consonants and vowels as English and has eight tones.
- Nepali has twelve vowel sounds and 36 consonants.
- He appears to have identified certain vowels and consonants that do not exist in French and used them repeatedly throughout the two songs.
- I have never, for instance, heard a speaker of English condemn the nasal vowels or the dropped consonants of the French language.
- After blending consonants and vowels, syllables are blended into words and words are used in meaningful sentences.
- It doesn't have an inordinate number of consonants or vowels.
- The accumulated differences in the vowels, consonants, and syllable lengths gives dramatic speech a totally different pace.
- Finnish is characterized by the use of many vowels and few consonants.
- Still the dominant phonetic presence is of light vowels and soft consonants, a bright but increasingly fragile idyll asking to be shattered.
- There are many assimilations and elisions of consonants and vowels, such as the dropping of t in such words as cyclists, the reduction of and to n, or the compression of such auxiliary sequences as gonna and wouldn'a'been.
- Slovak, like other Slavic languages, has diacritical marks that govern the pronunciation of both consonants and vowels.
1. 1.1 A letter representing a consonant.
  辅音字母
  Example sentencesExamples
  The remaining 30 words included a silent consonant as the final letter of each word.
  In all of these cases, the deft repetitions and modulations of consonants and vowels with their subtle assonance and consonance compete for attention with the lines' actual content.
  If you thought the infinite variations on the ubiquitous sideways smiley faces were getting a bit difficult to decipher, you may be feeling lost in a seemingly meaningless sea of vowels and consonants.
  Keep monthly writing samples so you can observe how students gradually add the correct vowels and consonants.
  On the other hand, knowing that the first letter is a consonant, although still helpful, merely informs the solver which of the three consonants to put at the beginning of the solution word.
  She misses opportunities to color the text, eviscerating the crisp, plosive consonants and long fruity vowels of the kind of seductive, excess and affective precision that would conform to the interpretive agenda of the period.
  North Korea inherited this modern form of Korean vernacular script consisting of nineteen consonants and twenty-one vowels.
  Since each language has its own way of voicing the consonants and the vowels, names of places as pronounced by locals in their native language seldom sound the same to an outsider.
  He investigated how vowels and consonants alternated in the opening chapters of the long story and the poem and discovered a fascinating regularity.
  He had written but one word, three consonants and a single vowel.
  Each syllable is written as a combination of consonants and vowels, plus the tone mark.
  This alphabet was small, consisting of 14 consonants, and 3 vowels.
  Unlike the English alphabet of 26 letters, the Tlingit language has at least 32 consonants and eight vowels.
  The children were asked to match speech sounds to written consonants and vowels, and they practiced related skills.
  This means his name contains 8 vowels and 6 consonants so the question is so valid.
  Then they learned to read by pronouncing nonsense syllables formed by combining consonants with vowels, such as ba-he-bi.

adjective ˈkɒns(ə)nəntˈkɑnsənənt

1attributive Denoting or relating to a consonant.
（与）辅音（字母）（有关）的
a consonant phoneme
辅音音素。
Example sentencesExamples
- Even consonant sounds change with context; the ‘t’ sounds different in ‘cat’ than it does in ‘the.’
- ‘We're kind of naturally wired into consonant sounds,’ he said.
- But the language doesn't have a lot of syllables that crucially have to be written ending in a consonant letter.
- While the consonant cards each represent a single letter, the vowel cards give a choice of two vowels and the wild cards represent any letter.
- The consistency of pronunciation of the consonant ending can be illustrated with the words ending with s.
- When my daughter, Isabel, was just beginning to talk, there were many things she wanted to say but couldn't because the words she needed contained consonant sounds that were too difficult.
- The average frequency was 7.5 per million for the vowel words and 7.9 per million for the consonant words.
- Gay marriage is, obviously, completely consonant with liberal aspirations to make marriage something that everyone can aspire to.
- From about 1600, however, they were gradually separated over a period of more than two centuries into the vowel letters i, u and the consonant letters j, v.
- I agree with his judgments about ‘roofs’ - that's the only way to spell it, but I can pronounce it either way, likewise with the correlation between vowel quality and consonant voicing.
- He identified it as consonant with his team's research results on the nature of distress in close relationships.
- Infant babbling, the stringing together of vowel and consonant sounds, is an important stage in the eventual development of language.
- Almost all of the novice teachers spent time working on lax or short vowel sounds, tense or long vowel sounds, and consonant digraphs; on the closed syllable type; and on decoding words with a variety of closed syllable patterns.
- His contribution to the study of errors in apical consonant articulation are world famous.
- Because the learner has become competent with the short vowels, consonants, and consonant blends, he or she can now concentrate on mastering the long-vowel spelling forms.
- It's meant for specialists who can follow all the details about the vowel and consonant changes.
- On the letter-sound test, most children began tutoring knowing single consonant sounds, but had relatively little knowledge of sounds for vowels or letter patterns.
- The identity of the Son is consonant with the identity of God the Father as the God of Israel.
- When it is consonant with the covenant identity, then the meal practice also properly enacts and proclaims Jesus' death.
- Students in the low-level group were not reading words but were learning letter names and sounds, and how to blend consonant and vowel sounds to make syllables.
- Morphological words for which the feminine form revealed the silent consonant ending were spelled more easily than morphological words for which the derivatives were other nouns or verbs.
- The core phonology is shared by all speakers of the language, while the Anglicized phonology makes the most of the consonant and vowel distinctions in English.
- The following lesson took place during a typical reading activity in one classroom in which the teacher introduced consonant digraphs and then elicited examples of words with consonant digraphs.
- As society has come to understand the essential unchosen nature of same-sex desire, the offering of new forms of matrimony that support such couples would seem consonant with a contemporary sense of justice and social responsibility.
- The high-frequency deficit causes difficulty in perceiving and differentiating consonant sounds; patients often report that words ‘run together.’
2consonant withIn agreement or harmony with.
符合的，一致的；协调的
the findings are consonant with other research
这些发现和其他研究相符。
Example sentencesExamples
- Secondly, whatever is consonant with scripture, may be proved by scripture: but there are many things not dissonant from scripture which cannot be proved by it.
- Only when these three kinds of education are consonant and make for the same end, does a man tend towards his true goal.
- Even when the editor's observations are not consonant with the latest research (a rarity) they can become new starting points of discussion.
- Dick doesn't like to fly, and he had no particular desire to go there, and since we had pretty consonant views and I wanted to go to England anyway, we decided to write a joint paper.
- For instance, SWAP'S support of alternative research methodologies is consonant with the multiplicity of methods used by members of the History and Theory Section.
- To support a science that is ‘consonant’ with religion is not to claim that religion and science are the same thing.
- The witness of the Scriptures is consonant with a view that rejects homosexual practice of any kind, and that marriage between a man and a woman in life-long union remains the only appropriate place for sexual relations.
Synonyms
in agreement with, agreeing with, consistent with, in accordance with, accordant with, consilient with, in harmony with, compatible with, congruous with, in tune with, reconcilable with
1. 2.1Music Making a harmonious interval or chord.
  〔乐〕协和音的；和谐的
  the bass is consonant with all the upper notes
  低音音程和所有高音音符都是和谐的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  And chords are groups of more or less consonant sounds which counterpoint has united!
  PET (positron emission tomography) imaging conducted while subjects listened to consonant or dissonant chords showed that different localized brain regions were involved in the emotional reactions.
  In the 6th century B.C. Pythagoras observed that simple ratios of lengths of strings determine consonant musical intervals.
  The work began to display a tendency towards regular rhythmic pulse, consonant intervals and an impertinent use of the then forbidden octave.
  There is a misconception here, since Wagner's practice was rather to use such unstable sonorities to enhance the music's eventual arrival at points of tonal clarity and consonant harmonic stability.

Derivatives

consonantal

adjective kɒnsəˈnant(ə)lˌkɑnsəˈnæn(t)l

He kept separate the constituents of consonantal clusters, relishing sibilants and fricatives as much as plosives and liquids, and studied the duration of pauses as carefully as the duration of syllables.
Example sentencesExamples
- His work on reading Arabic, another mainly consonantal Semitic language that uses diacritics to disambiguate homophonous strings, also indicates a facilitating effect of pointing on readers mediated by context.
- The efficiency of our fluency training could be enormously improved if the achieved fluency gains would generalize to new words sharing consonantal onsets with the training words.
- There is verse here and fable, both equally creative in consonantal calisthenics and comic content.
- The letter g also has the hard consonantal sound as in ‘grade,’ and so a word such as garam will have the hard sound.

consonantly

adverb

There's a third thing I'd want in addition: for the visual expression of pitched sounds to contain something that would allow you to predict, ahead of time, whether a given pair of them would combine consonantly or dissonantly.
Example sentencesExamples
- Our society, founded on the Jeffersonian concept of ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,’ has consonantly invested heavily in research and development of new knowledge and methods to prolong and enhance human life.
- Depending on the conservative's particular agenda, it either fits in consonantly with the whole program, or it is an essential feature in it.
- It is the destination of human life to develop consonantly according to basic natural laws.
- Rather then consonantly defend their lives and individualism, too many Americans simply concede the altruistic view of man idealized by the Mother Teresa's of the world.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'letter representing a consonant'): via Old French from Latin consonare 'sound together', from con- 'with' + sonare 'to sound' (from sonus 'sound').

Definition of consonant in US English:

consonant

nounˈkɑnsənəntˈkänsənənt

1A basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed and which can be combined with a vowel to form a syllable.
辅音。与VOWEL 相对
Contrasted with vowel
Example sentencesExamples
- Obviously, you haven't heard me brutalize the combinations of consonants and vowels that sound so exquisite when spoken by a Chinese.
- The accumulated differences in the vowels, consonants, and syllable lengths gives dramatic speech a totally different pace.
- There are many assimilations and elisions of consonants and vowels, such as the dropping of t in such words as cyclists, the reduction of and to n, or the compression of such auxiliary sequences as gonna and wouldn'a'been.
- Slovak, like other Slavic languages, has diacritical marks that govern the pronunciation of both consonants and vowels.
- Most of the vowels and consonants that do not occur at the ends of words have pronunciations similar to those of western European languages, but there are some differences.
- The preference for open syllables which end in vowels rather than consonants may, however, derive from universal developmental tendencies as well as from substratum influence.
- He had a wonderful provincial accent, with all the ‘wrong’ vowels and unexpected extra consonants, which made the simplest word mysterious to my ears and his tales fun to hear for even the tenth time.
- It is comprised of about twice as many consonants and vowels as English and has eight tones.
- When his operas are sung in any other language, the shift in vowels, consonants, and rhythms changes the character of the music.
- He appears to have identified certain vowels and consonants that do not exist in French and used them repeatedly throughout the two songs.
- Because the learner has become competent with the short vowels, consonants, and consonant blends, he or she can now concentrate on mastering the long-vowel spelling forms.
- I have never, for instance, heard a speaker of English condemn the nasal vowels or the dropped consonants of the French language.
- After blending consonants and vowels, syllables are blended into words and words are used in meaningful sentences.
- The prototypical noun may be (though need not be) quite long, stress will fall early in the word, the stressed vowel will be non-front, and the final consonant (if an obstruent) will be voiceless.
- Finnish is characterized by the use of many vowels and few consonants.
- Articulation in singing is produced by such techniques as portamento or the taking of breaths, and by the treatment of vowels and consonants.
- Still the dominant phonetic presence is of light vowels and soft consonants, a bright but increasingly fragile idyll asking to be shattered.
- It doesn't have an inordinate number of consonants or vowels.
- The word spilled out of her in a hushed stream of syllables, that awful combination of consonants and vowels that spelled shame and death for any woman in what was politely called the ‘entertainment’ business.
- Nepali has twelve vowel sounds and 36 consonants.
1. 1.1 A letter representing a consonant.
  辅音字母
  Example sentencesExamples
  On the other hand, knowing that the first letter is a consonant, although still helpful, merely informs the solver which of the three consonants to put at the beginning of the solution word.
  She misses opportunities to color the text, eviscerating the crisp, plosive consonants and long fruity vowels of the kind of seductive, excess and affective precision that would conform to the interpretive agenda of the period.
  The children were asked to match speech sounds to written consonants and vowels, and they practiced related skills.
  This alphabet was small, consisting of 14 consonants, and 3 vowels.
  He had written but one word, three consonants and a single vowel.
  He investigated how vowels and consonants alternated in the opening chapters of the long story and the poem and discovered a fascinating regularity.
  Then they learned to read by pronouncing nonsense syllables formed by combining consonants with vowels, such as ba-he-bi.
  Keep monthly writing samples so you can observe how students gradually add the correct vowels and consonants.
  This means his name contains 8 vowels and 6 consonants so the question is so valid.
  Each syllable is written as a combination of consonants and vowels, plus the tone mark.
  The remaining 30 words included a silent consonant as the final letter of each word.
  Unlike the English alphabet of 26 letters, the Tlingit language has at least 32 consonants and eight vowels.
  Since each language has its own way of voicing the consonants and the vowels, names of places as pronounced by locals in their native language seldom sound the same to an outsider.
  In all of these cases, the deft repetitions and modulations of consonants and vowels with their subtle assonance and consonance compete for attention with the lines' actual content.
  North Korea inherited this modern form of Korean vernacular script consisting of nineteen consonants and twenty-one vowels.
  If you thought the infinite variations on the ubiquitous sideways smiley faces were getting a bit difficult to decipher, you may be feeling lost in a seemingly meaningless sea of vowels and consonants.

adjectiveˈkɑnsənəntˈkänsənənt

1Denoting or relating to a consonant sound or letter.
（与）辅音（字母）（有关）的
a consonant phoneme
辅音音素。
Example sentencesExamples
- But the language doesn't have a lot of syllables that crucially have to be written ending in a consonant letter.
- His contribution to the study of errors in apical consonant articulation are world famous.
- Infant babbling, the stringing together of vowel and consonant sounds, is an important stage in the eventual development of language.
- Almost all of the novice teachers spent time working on lax or short vowel sounds, tense or long vowel sounds, and consonant digraphs; on the closed syllable type; and on decoding words with a variety of closed syllable patterns.
- When it is consonant with the covenant identity, then the meal practice also properly enacts and proclaims Jesus' death.
- Students in the low-level group were not reading words but were learning letter names and sounds, and how to blend consonant and vowel sounds to make syllables.
- Morphological words for which the feminine form revealed the silent consonant ending were spelled more easily than morphological words for which the derivatives were other nouns or verbs.
- Even consonant sounds change with context; the ‘t’ sounds different in ‘cat’ than it does in ‘the.’
- While the consonant cards each represent a single letter, the vowel cards give a choice of two vowels and the wild cards represent any letter.
- It's meant for specialists who can follow all the details about the vowel and consonant changes.
- The following lesson took place during a typical reading activity in one classroom in which the teacher introduced consonant digraphs and then elicited examples of words with consonant digraphs.
- The identity of the Son is consonant with the identity of God the Father as the God of Israel.
- He identified it as consonant with his team's research results on the nature of distress in close relationships.
- From about 1600, however, they were gradually separated over a period of more than two centuries into the vowel letters i, u and the consonant letters j, v.
- The average frequency was 7.5 per million for the vowel words and 7.9 per million for the consonant words.
- As society has come to understand the essential unchosen nature of same-sex desire, the offering of new forms of matrimony that support such couples would seem consonant with a contemporary sense of justice and social responsibility.
- The high-frequency deficit causes difficulty in perceiving and differentiating consonant sounds; patients often report that words ‘run together.’
- Gay marriage is, obviously, completely consonant with liberal aspirations to make marriage something that everyone can aspire to.
- The consistency of pronunciation of the consonant ending can be illustrated with the words ending with s.
- The core phonology is shared by all speakers of the language, while the Anglicized phonology makes the most of the consonant and vowel distinctions in English.
- I agree with his judgments about ‘roofs’ - that's the only way to spell it, but I can pronounce it either way, likewise with the correlation between vowel quality and consonant voicing.
- On the letter-sound test, most children began tutoring knowing single consonant sounds, but had relatively little knowledge of sounds for vowels or letter patterns.
- ‘We're kind of naturally wired into consonant sounds,’ he said.
- When my daughter, Isabel, was just beginning to talk, there were many things she wanted to say but couldn't because the words she needed contained consonant sounds that were too difficult.
- Because the learner has become competent with the short vowels, consonants, and consonant blends, he or she can now concentrate on mastering the long-vowel spelling forms.
2consonant withIn agreement or harmony with.
符合的，一致的；协调的
the findings are consonant with other research
这些发现和其他研究相符。
Example sentencesExamples
- Secondly, whatever is consonant with scripture, may be proved by scripture: but there are many things not dissonant from scripture which cannot be proved by it.
- Even when the editor's observations are not consonant with the latest research (a rarity) they can become new starting points of discussion.
- Dick doesn't like to fly, and he had no particular desire to go there, and since we had pretty consonant views and I wanted to go to England anyway, we decided to write a joint paper.
- For instance, SWAP'S support of alternative research methodologies is consonant with the multiplicity of methods used by members of the History and Theory Section.
- Only when these three kinds of education are consonant and make for the same end, does a man tend towards his true goal.
- The witness of the Scriptures is consonant with a view that rejects homosexual practice of any kind, and that marriage between a man and a woman in life-long union remains the only appropriate place for sexual relations.
- To support a science that is ‘consonant’ with religion is not to claim that religion and science are the same thing.
Synonyms
in agreement with, agreeing with, consistent with, in accordance with, accordant with, consilient with, in harmony with, compatible with, congruous with, in tune with, reconcilable with
1. 2.1Music Making a harmonious interval or chord.
  〔乐〕协和音的；和谐的
  the bass is consonant with all the upper notes
  低音音程和所有高音音符都是和谐的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  There is a misconception here, since Wagner's practice was rather to use such unstable sonorities to enhance the music's eventual arrival at points of tonal clarity and consonant harmonic stability.
  In the 6th century B.C. Pythagoras observed that simple ratios of lengths of strings determine consonant musical intervals.
  PET (positron emission tomography) imaging conducted while subjects listened to consonant or dissonant chords showed that different localized brain regions were involved in the emotional reactions.
  The work began to display a tendency towards regular rhythmic pulse, consonant intervals and an impertinent use of the then forbidden octave.
  And chords are groups of more or less consonant sounds which counterpoint has united!

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘letter representing a consonant’): via Old French from Latin consonare ‘sound together’, from con- ‘with’ + sonare ‘to sound’ (from sonus ‘sound’).

单词	consonant
释义	Definition of consonant in English: consonant noun ˈkɒns(ə)nəntˈkɑnsənənt 1A basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed and which can be combined with a vowel to form a syllable. 辅音。与VOWEL 相对 fricatives are by far the largest group of English consonants Contrasted with vowel Example sentencesExamples When his operas are sung in any other language, the shift in vowels, consonants, and rhythms changes the character of the music. The prototypical noun may be (though need not be) quite long, stress will fall early in the word, the stressed vowel will be non-front, and the final consonant (if an obstruent) will be voiceless. The word spilled out of her in a hushed stream of syllables, that awful combination of consonants and vowels that spelled shame and death for any woman in what was politely called the ‘entertainment’ business. Because the learner has become competent with the short vowels, consonants, and consonant blends, he or she can now concentrate on mastering the long-vowel spelling forms. He had a wonderful provincial accent, with all the ‘wrong’ vowels and unexpected extra consonants, which made the simplest word mysterious to my ears and his tales fun to hear for even the tenth time. Obviously, you haven't heard me brutalize the combinations of consonants and vowels that sound so exquisite when spoken by a Chinese. The preference for open syllables which end in vowels rather than consonants may, however, derive from universal developmental tendencies as well as from substratum influence. Articulation in singing is produced by such techniques as portamento or the taking of breaths, and by the treatment of vowels and consonants. Most of the vowels and consonants that do not occur at the ends of words have pronunciations similar to those of western European languages, but there are some differences. It is comprised of about twice as many consonants and vowels as English and has eight tones. Nepali has twelve vowel sounds and 36 consonants. He appears to have identified certain vowels and consonants that do not exist in French and used them repeatedly throughout the two songs. I have never, for instance, heard a speaker of English condemn the nasal vowels or the dropped consonants of the French language. After blending consonants and vowels, syllables are blended into words and words are used in meaningful sentences. It doesn't have an inordinate number of consonants or vowels. The accumulated differences in the vowels, consonants, and syllable lengths gives dramatic speech a totally different pace. Finnish is characterized by the use of many vowels and few consonants. Still the dominant phonetic presence is of light vowels and soft consonants, a bright but increasingly fragile idyll asking to be shattered. There are many assimilations and elisions of consonants and vowels, such as the dropping of t in such words as cyclists, the reduction of and to n, or the compression of such auxiliary sequences as gonna and wouldn'a'been. Slovak, like other Slavic languages, has diacritical marks that govern the pronunciation of both consonants and vowels. 1.1 A letter representing a consonant. 辅音字母 Example sentencesExamples The remaining 30 words included a silent consonant as the final letter of each word. In all of these cases, the deft repetitions and modulations of consonants and vowels with their subtle assonance and consonance compete for attention with the lines' actual content. If you thought the infinite variations on the ubiquitous sideways smiley faces were getting a bit difficult to decipher, you may be feeling lost in a seemingly meaningless sea of vowels and consonants. Keep monthly writing samples so you can observe how students gradually add the correct vowels and consonants. On the other hand, knowing that the first letter is a consonant, although still helpful, merely informs the solver which of the three consonants to put at the beginning of the solution word. She misses opportunities to color the text, eviscerating the crisp, plosive consonants and long fruity vowels of the kind of seductive, excess and affective precision that would conform to the interpretive agenda of the period. North Korea inherited this modern form of Korean vernacular script consisting of nineteen consonants and twenty-one vowels. Since each language has its own way of voicing the consonants and the vowels, names of places as pronounced by locals in their native language seldom sound the same to an outsider. He investigated how vowels and consonants alternated in the opening chapters of the long story and the poem and discovered a fascinating regularity. He had written but one word, three consonants and a single vowel. Each syllable is written as a combination of consonants and vowels, plus the tone mark. This alphabet was small, consisting of 14 consonants, and 3 vowels. Unlike the English alphabet of 26 letters, the Tlingit language has at least 32 consonants and eight vowels. The children were asked to match speech sounds to written consonants and vowels, and they practiced related skills. This means his name contains 8 vowels and 6 consonants so the question is so valid. Then they learned to read by pronouncing nonsense syllables formed by combining consonants with vowels, such as ba-he-bi. adjective ˈkɒns(ə)nəntˈkɑnsənənt 1attributive Denoting or relating to a consonant. （与）辅音（字母）（有关）的 a consonant phoneme 辅音音素。 Example sentencesExamples Even consonant sounds change with context; the ‘t’ sounds different in ‘cat’ than it does in ‘the.’ ‘We're kind of naturally wired into consonant sounds,’ he said. But the language doesn't have a lot of syllables that crucially have to be written ending in a consonant letter. While the consonant cards each represent a single letter, the vowel cards give a choice of two vowels and the wild cards represent any letter. The consistency of pronunciation of the consonant ending can be illustrated with the words ending with s. When my daughter, Isabel, was just beginning to talk, there were many things she wanted to say but couldn't because the words she needed contained consonant sounds that were too difficult. The average frequency was 7.5 per million for the vowel words and 7.9 per million for the consonant words. Gay marriage is, obviously, completely consonant with liberal aspirations to make marriage something that everyone can aspire to. From about 1600, however, they were gradually separated over a period of more than two centuries into the vowel letters i, u and the consonant letters j, v. I agree with his judgments about ‘roofs’ - that's the only way to spell it, but I can pronounce it either way, likewise with the correlation between vowel quality and consonant voicing. He identified it as consonant with his team's research results on the nature of distress in close relationships. Infant babbling, the stringing together of vowel and consonant sounds, is an important stage in the eventual development of language. Almost all of the novice teachers spent time working on lax or short vowel sounds, tense or long vowel sounds, and consonant digraphs; on the closed syllable type; and on decoding words with a variety of closed syllable patterns. His contribution to the study of errors in apical consonant articulation are world famous. Because the learner has become competent with the short vowels, consonants, and consonant blends, he or she can now concentrate on mastering the long-vowel spelling forms. It's meant for specialists who can follow all the details about the vowel and consonant changes. On the letter-sound test, most children began tutoring knowing single consonant sounds, but had relatively little knowledge of sounds for vowels or letter patterns. The identity of the Son is consonant with the identity of God the Father as the God of Israel. When it is consonant with the covenant identity, then the meal practice also properly enacts and proclaims Jesus' death. Students in the low-level group were not reading words but were learning letter names and sounds, and how to blend consonant and vowel sounds to make syllables. Morphological words for which the feminine form revealed the silent consonant ending were spelled more easily than morphological words for which the derivatives were other nouns or verbs. The core phonology is shared by all speakers of the language, while the Anglicized phonology makes the most of the consonant and vowel distinctions in English. The following lesson took place during a typical reading activity in one classroom in which the teacher introduced consonant digraphs and then elicited examples of words with consonant digraphs. As society has come to understand the essential unchosen nature of same-sex desire, the offering of new forms of matrimony that support such couples would seem consonant with a contemporary sense of justice and social responsibility. The high-frequency deficit causes difficulty in perceiving and differentiating consonant sounds; patients often report that words ‘run together.’ 2consonant withIn agreement or harmony with. 符合的，一致的；协调的 the findings are consonant with other research 这些发现和其他研究相符。 Example sentencesExamples Secondly, whatever is consonant with scripture, may be proved by scripture: but there are many things not dissonant from scripture which cannot be proved by it. Only when these three kinds of education are consonant and make for the same end, does a man tend towards his true goal. Even when the editor's observations are not consonant with the latest research (a rarity) they can become new starting points of discussion. Dick doesn't like to fly, and he had no particular desire to go there, and since we had pretty consonant views and I wanted to go to England anyway, we decided to write a joint paper. For instance, SWAP'S support of alternative research methodologies is consonant with the multiplicity of methods used by members of the History and Theory Section. To support a science that is ‘consonant’ with religion is not to claim that religion and science are the same thing. The witness of the Scriptures is consonant with a view that rejects homosexual practice of any kind, and that marriage between a man and a woman in life-long union remains the only appropriate place for sexual relations. Synonyms in agreement with, agreeing with, consistent with, in accordance with, accordant with, consilient with, in harmony with, compatible with, congruous with, in tune with, reconcilable with 2.1Music Making a harmonious interval or chord. 〔乐〕协和音的；和谐的 the bass is consonant with all the upper notes 低音音程和所有高音音符都是和谐的。 Example sentencesExamples And chords are groups of more or less consonant sounds which counterpoint has united! PET (positron emission tomography) imaging conducted while subjects listened to consonant or dissonant chords showed that different localized brain regions were involved in the emotional reactions. In the 6th century B.C. Pythagoras observed that simple ratios of lengths of strings determine consonant musical intervals. The work began to display a tendency towards regular rhythmic pulse, consonant intervals and an impertinent use of the then forbidden octave. There is a misconception here, since Wagner's practice was rather to use such unstable sonorities to enhance the music's eventual arrival at points of tonal clarity and consonant harmonic stability. Derivatives consonantal adjective kɒnsəˈnant(ə)lˌkɑnsəˈnæn(t)l He kept separate the constituents of consonantal clusters, relishing sibilants and fricatives as much as plosives and liquids, and studied the duration of pauses as carefully as the duration of syllables. Example sentencesExamples His work on reading Arabic, another mainly consonantal Semitic language that uses diacritics to disambiguate homophonous strings, also indicates a facilitating effect of pointing on readers mediated by context. The efficiency of our fluency training could be enormously improved if the achieved fluency gains would generalize to new words sharing consonantal onsets with the training words. There is verse here and fable, both equally creative in consonantal calisthenics and comic content. The letter g also has the hard consonantal sound as in ‘grade,’ and so a word such as garam will have the hard sound. consonantly adverb There's a third thing I'd want in addition: for the visual expression of pitched sounds to contain something that would allow you to predict, ahead of time, whether a given pair of them would combine consonantly or dissonantly. Example sentencesExamples Our society, founded on the Jeffersonian concept of ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,’ has consonantly invested heavily in research and development of new knowledge and methods to prolong and enhance human life. Depending on the conservative's particular agenda, it either fits in consonantly with the whole program, or it is an essential feature in it. It is the destination of human life to develop consonantly according to basic natural laws. Rather then consonantly defend their lives and individualism, too many Americans simply concede the altruistic view of man idealized by the Mother Teresa's of the world. Origin Middle English (in the sense 'letter representing a consonant'): via Old French from Latin consonare 'sound together', from con- 'with' + sonare 'to sound' (from sonus 'sound'). Definition of consonant in US English: consonant nounˈkɑnsənəntˈkänsənənt 1A basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed and which can be combined with a vowel to form a syllable. 辅音。与VOWEL 相对 Contrasted with vowel Example sentencesExamples Obviously, you haven't heard me brutalize the combinations of consonants and vowels that sound so exquisite when spoken by a Chinese. The accumulated differences in the vowels, consonants, and syllable lengths gives dramatic speech a totally different pace. There are many assimilations and elisions of consonants and vowels, such as the dropping of t in such words as cyclists, the reduction of and to n, or the compression of such auxiliary sequences as gonna and wouldn'a'been. Slovak, like other Slavic languages, has diacritical marks that govern the pronunciation of both consonants and vowels. Most of the vowels and consonants that do not occur at the ends of words have pronunciations similar to those of western European languages, but there are some differences. The preference for open syllables which end in vowels rather than consonants may, however, derive from universal developmental tendencies as well as from substratum influence. He had a wonderful provincial accent, with all the ‘wrong’ vowels and unexpected extra consonants, which made the simplest word mysterious to my ears and his tales fun to hear for even the tenth time. It is comprised of about twice as many consonants and vowels as English and has eight tones. When his operas are sung in any other language, the shift in vowels, consonants, and rhythms changes the character of the music. He appears to have identified certain vowels and consonants that do not exist in French and used them repeatedly throughout the two songs. Because the learner has become competent with the short vowels, consonants, and consonant blends, he or she can now concentrate on mastering the long-vowel spelling forms. I have never, for instance, heard a speaker of English condemn the nasal vowels or the dropped consonants of the French language. After blending consonants and vowels, syllables are blended into words and words are used in meaningful sentences. The prototypical noun may be (though need not be) quite long, stress will fall early in the word, the stressed vowel will be non-front, and the final consonant (if an obstruent) will be voiceless. Finnish is characterized by the use of many vowels and few consonants. Articulation in singing is produced by such techniques as portamento or the taking of breaths, and by the treatment of vowels and consonants. Still the dominant phonetic presence is of light vowels and soft consonants, a bright but increasingly fragile idyll asking to be shattered. It doesn't have an inordinate number of consonants or vowels. The word spilled out of her in a hushed stream of syllables, that awful combination of consonants and vowels that spelled shame and death for any woman in what was politely called the ‘entertainment’ business. Nepali has twelve vowel sounds and 36 consonants. 1.1 A letter representing a consonant. 辅音字母 Example sentencesExamples On the other hand, knowing that the first letter is a consonant, although still helpful, merely informs the solver which of the three consonants to put at the beginning of the solution word. She misses opportunities to color the text, eviscerating the crisp, plosive consonants and long fruity vowels of the kind of seductive, excess and affective precision that would conform to the interpretive agenda of the period. The children were asked to match speech sounds to written consonants and vowels, and they practiced related skills. This alphabet was small, consisting of 14 consonants, and 3 vowels. He had written but one word, three consonants and a single vowel. He investigated how vowels and consonants alternated in the opening chapters of the long story and the poem and discovered a fascinating regularity. Then they learned to read by pronouncing nonsense syllables formed by combining consonants with vowels, such as ba-he-bi. Keep monthly writing samples so you can observe how students gradually add the correct vowels and consonants. This means his name contains 8 vowels and 6 consonants so the question is so valid. Each syllable is written as a combination of consonants and vowels, plus the tone mark. The remaining 30 words included a silent consonant as the final letter of each word. Unlike the English alphabet of 26 letters, the Tlingit language has at least 32 consonants and eight vowels. Since each language has its own way of voicing the consonants and the vowels, names of places as pronounced by locals in their native language seldom sound the same to an outsider. In all of these cases, the deft repetitions and modulations of consonants and vowels with their subtle assonance and consonance compete for attention with the lines' actual content. North Korea inherited this modern form of Korean vernacular script consisting of nineteen consonants and twenty-one vowels. If you thought the infinite variations on the ubiquitous sideways smiley faces were getting a bit difficult to decipher, you may be feeling lost in a seemingly meaningless sea of vowels and consonants. adjectiveˈkɑnsənəntˈkänsənənt 1Denoting or relating to a consonant sound or letter. （与）辅音（字母）（有关）的 a consonant phoneme 辅音音素。 Example sentencesExamples But the language doesn't have a lot of syllables that crucially have to be written ending in a consonant letter. His contribution to the study of errors in apical consonant articulation are world famous. Infant babbling, the stringing together of vowel and consonant sounds, is an important stage in the eventual development of language. Almost all of the novice teachers spent time working on lax or short vowel sounds, tense or long vowel sounds, and consonant digraphs; on the closed syllable type; and on decoding words with a variety of closed syllable patterns. When it is consonant with the covenant identity, then the meal practice also properly enacts and proclaims Jesus' death. Students in the low-level group were not reading words but were learning letter names and sounds, and how to blend consonant and vowel sounds to make syllables. Morphological words for which the feminine form revealed the silent consonant ending were spelled more easily than morphological words for which the derivatives were other nouns or verbs. Even consonant sounds change with context; the ‘t’ sounds different in ‘cat’ than it does in ‘the.’ While the consonant cards each represent a single letter, the vowel cards give a choice of two vowels and the wild cards represent any letter. It's meant for specialists who can follow all the details about the vowel and consonant changes. The following lesson took place during a typical reading activity in one classroom in which the teacher introduced consonant digraphs and then elicited examples of words with consonant digraphs. The identity of the Son is consonant with the identity of God the Father as the God of Israel. He identified it as consonant with his team's research results on the nature of distress in close relationships. From about 1600, however, they were gradually separated over a period of more than two centuries into the vowel letters i, u and the consonant letters j, v. The average frequency was 7.5 per million for the vowel words and 7.9 per million for the consonant words. As society has come to understand the essential unchosen nature of same-sex desire, the offering of new forms of matrimony that support such couples would seem consonant with a contemporary sense of justice and social responsibility. The high-frequency deficit causes difficulty in perceiving and differentiating consonant sounds; patients often report that words ‘run together.’ Gay marriage is, obviously, completely consonant with liberal aspirations to make marriage something that everyone can aspire to. The consistency of pronunciation of the consonant ending can be illustrated with the words ending with s. The core phonology is shared by all speakers of the language, while the Anglicized phonology makes the most of the consonant and vowel distinctions in English. I agree with his judgments about ‘roofs’ - that's the only way to spell it, but I can pronounce it either way, likewise with the correlation between vowel quality and consonant voicing. On the letter-sound test, most children began tutoring knowing single consonant sounds, but had relatively little knowledge of sounds for vowels or letter patterns. ‘We're kind of naturally wired into consonant sounds,’ he said. When my daughter, Isabel, was just beginning to talk, there were many things she wanted to say but couldn't because the words she needed contained consonant sounds that were too difficult. Because the learner has become competent with the short vowels, consonants, and consonant blends, he or she can now concentrate on mastering the long-vowel spelling forms. 2consonant withIn agreement or harmony with. 符合的，一致的；协调的 the findings are consonant with other research 这些发现和其他研究相符。 Example sentencesExamples Secondly, whatever is consonant with scripture, may be proved by scripture: but there are many things not dissonant from scripture which cannot be proved by it. Even when the editor's observations are not consonant with the latest research (a rarity) they can become new starting points of discussion. Dick doesn't like to fly, and he had no particular desire to go there, and since we had pretty consonant views and I wanted to go to England anyway, we decided to write a joint paper. For instance, SWAP'S support of alternative research methodologies is consonant with the multiplicity of methods used by members of the History and Theory Section. Only when these three kinds of education are consonant and make for the same end, does a man tend towards his true goal. The witness of the Scriptures is consonant with a view that rejects homosexual practice of any kind, and that marriage between a man and a woman in life-long union remains the only appropriate place for sexual relations. To support a science that is ‘consonant’ with religion is not to claim that religion and science are the same thing. Synonyms in agreement with, agreeing with, consistent with, in accordance with, accordant with, consilient with, in harmony with, compatible with, congruous with, in tune with, reconcilable with 2.1Music Making a harmonious interval or chord. 〔乐〕协和音的；和谐的 the bass is consonant with all the upper notes 低音音程和所有高音音符都是和谐的。 Example sentencesExamples There is a misconception here, since Wagner's practice was rather to use such unstable sonorities to enhance the music's eventual arrival at points of tonal clarity and consonant harmonic stability. In the 6th century B.C. Pythagoras observed that simple ratios of lengths of strings determine consonant musical intervals. PET (positron emission tomography) imaging conducted while subjects listened to consonant or dissonant chords showed that different localized brain regions were involved in the emotional reactions. The work began to display a tendency towards regular rhythmic pulse, consonant intervals and an impertinent use of the then forbidden octave. And chords are groups of more or less consonant sounds which counterpoint has united! Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘letter representing a consonant’): via Old French from Latin consonare ‘sound together’, from con- ‘with’ + sonare ‘to sound’ (from sonus ‘sound’).
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