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plosive |
Grep of noun plosive explosive glottal plosive high explosive plastic explosive plosive plosive consonant plosive speech sound Overview of noun plosive The noun plosive has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1. stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive -- (a consonant produced by stopping air at some point and suddenly releasing it "his stop consonants are too aspirated") Overview of adj plosive The adj plosive has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1. plosive -- (produced by complete closure of the oral passage and subsequent release with a burst of air (as `p' and `d' in `pit' or `dog')) Antonyms of adj plosive 1 sense of plosive Sense 1 plosive INDIRECT (VIA hard) -> soft Similarity of adj plosive 1 sense of plosive Sense 1 plosive => hard (vs. soft) Attributes of adj plosive Familiarity of adj plosive plosive used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count = 1) Grep of adj plosive explosive nonexplosive plosive Overview of noun plosive The noun plosive has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1. stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive -- (a consonant produced by stopping air at some point and suddenly releasing it "his stop consonants are too aspirated") Overview of adj plosive The adj plosive has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1. plosive -- (produced by complete closure of the oral passage and subsequent release with a burst of air (as `p' and `d' in `pit' or `dog'))
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