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voiceless

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Voiceless  \Voice"less\,  a. 
  1.  Having  no  voice,  utterance,  or  vote;  silent;  mute;  dumb. 
 
  I  live  and  die  unheard,  With  a  most  voiceless 
  thought,  sheathing  it  as  a  sword.  --Byron. 
 
  2.  (Phon.)  Not  sounded  with  voice;  as  a  voiceless  consonant; 
  surd. 
 
  {Voiceless  stop}  (Phon.),  a  consonant  made  with  no  audible 
  sound  except  in  the  transition  to  or  from  another  sound;  a 
  surd  mute,  as  p,  t,  k.  --  {Voice"less*ly},  adv  -- 
  {Voice"less*ness},  n. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  voiceless 
  adj  1:  (linguistics)  of  speech  sounds  [syn:  {surd},  {unvoiced}] 
  [ant:  {sonant}] 
  2:  not  using  the  voice;  "unvoiced  thoughts";  "unvoiced 
  consonants  such  as  `p'  and  `k'  and  `s'  [syn:  {unvoiced}] 
  [ant:  {voiced}] 
  3:  uttered  without  voice;  "could  hardly  hear  her  breathed  plea, 
  `Help  me'";  "voiceless  whispers"  [syn:  {breathed}]




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