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单词 vowel
释义
vowel
noun[C]
uk
/vaʊəl/us
/vaʊəl/
B1
aspeechsoundproducedbyhumanswhen thebreathflowsout through themouthwithout beingblockedby theteeth,tongue, orlips:
元音
Ashortvowel is ashortsoundas in the word "cup".短元音是诸如 cup 一词中的短音。
Alongvowel is alongsoundas in the word "shoe".长元音是诸如 shoe 一词中的长音。
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consonant
B1
aletterthatrepresentsasoundproducedin this way:
元音字母
The vowels inEnglishare a, e, i, o, and u.英语中的元音字母是 a，e，i，o，u。
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(Definition ofvowelfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

vowel| American Dictionary

vowel
noun[C]
us
/ˈvɑʊ·əl/
writing
aspeechsoundproducedbyhumanbeingswhen thebreathflowsout through themouthwithout beingblockedby theteeth,tongue, orlips
writing
A vowel is also aletterthatrepresentsasoundproducedin this way:
The vowels inEnglishare a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.
(Definition ofvowelfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvowel

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The asymmetrical pattern, where high vowels follow nonhigh vowels, is worth additional discussion.
From theCambridge English Corpus
His spellings give clear evidence of the variation in his own speech, with raised, unraised and even lowered equivalents of the short front vowels.
From theCambridge English Corpus
To adopt such an idea would simplify the teaching of the vowels to learners, since you could absorb these so-called diphthongs into the simple system.
From theCambridge English Corpus
They are words that have partial or complete reduplication of consonants and\\or vowels and do not contain any consonant clusters.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Target syllables with short vowels represented 42 % of the total number of closed target syllables.
From theCambridge English Corpus
If there was no identifiable release burst, the low amplitude cyclic pattern occurring between the stop's preceding and following vowels was measured.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There were no differences in high-front, high-back, and mid-back vowels.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Superfluous vowels were ignored in this scoring system.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Production of full vowels represents feature number (1) but neither (2) nor (3).
From theCambridge English Corpus
Very frequently, these little words are attached as clitics to the preceding or following word, which makes them phonetically indistinguishable from epenthetic vowels.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Hence, we decided to categorize all instances of extra vowels at the end of a noun as ambiguous.
From theCambridge English Corpus
We refer mainly to vowels in monosyllabic words but extend the discussion to disyllabic words later on.
From theCambridge English Corpus
We, thus, leave open whether long and short vowels are represented differently at this earliest stage.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Target words containing short vowels and /l/ codas were produced as open syllables with diphthongs.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The younger talkers tended to produce vowels that showed the length contrast less clearly than the older talkers.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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Collocationswithvowel

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These are words often used in combination withvowel.

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front vowel
Many readers will no doubt wonder if */x/ can also precede a front vowel.
From theCambridge English Corpus
lax vowel
In particular, the analysis cannot in itself explain why there is vowel insertion after stops following a lax vowel.
From theCambridge English Corpus
long vowel
As a result, the reduplicant contains alongvowelon the surface.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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