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Meaning of "bilabial" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BILABIAL

bilabial  [baɪˈleɪbɪəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BILABIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bilabial can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BILABIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bilabial consonant

In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a consonant articulated with both lips. The bilabial consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are: Owere Igbo has a six-way contrast among bilabial stops:. Approximately 0.7% of the world's languages lack bilabial consonants altogether; these include Tlingit, Chipewyan, Oneida, and Wichita.

Definition of bilabial in the English dictionary

The definition of bilabial in the dictionary is of, relating to, or denoting a speech sound articulated using both lips. Other definition of bilabial is a bilabial speech sound.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BILABIAL


adverbial
ædˈvɜːbɪəl
antimicrobial
ˌæntɪmaɪˈkrəʊbɪəl
cambial
ˈkæmbɪəl
connubial
kəˈnjuːbɪəl
dentilabial
ˌdɛntɪˈleɪbɪəl
labial
ˈleɪbɪəl
microbial
maɪˈkrəʊbɪəl
nonmicrobial
ˌnɒnˌmaɪˈkrəʊbɪəl
procambial
prəʊˈkæmbɪəl
proverbial
prəˈvɜːbɪəl
rhizobial
raɪˈzəʊbɪəl
saprobial
səˈprəʊbɪəl
stibial
ˈstɪbɪəl
tibial
ˈtɪbɪəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BILABIAL

bilabiate
bilander
bilateral
bilateral symmetry
bilateral trade
bilateralism
bilaterally
bilayer
Bilbao
bilberries
bilberry
bilbies
bilbo
bilboes
bilby
Bildungsroman
bile
bile duct
bile stone

WORDS THAT END LIKE BILABIAL

artificial
commercial
crucial
dial
especial
essential
facial
financial
industrial
initial
material
memorial
official
potential
residential
serial
social
special
trial
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Synonyms and antonyms of bilabial in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «bilabial» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BILABIAL

Find out the translation of bilabial to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bilabial from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bilabial» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

双唇
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bilabial
570 millions of speakers

English

bilabial
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बिलाबियल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شفاهى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

билабиальный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bilabial
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দুই ত্তষ্ঠবিশিষ্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bilabial
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bilabial
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

bilabial
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

両唇音
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

bilabial
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bilabial
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đài hoa chẻ đôi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உதடுகளை இணைத்து உச்சரிக்கப்படுகிற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

द्विभाषिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çiftdudaksıl
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bilabiale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bilabial
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

білабіальний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bilabial
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διχειλικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tweelippig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bilabial
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bilabial
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bilabial

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BILABIAL»

The term «bilabial» is regularly used and occupies the 103.966 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BILABIAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bilabial

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BILABIAL»

Discover the use of bilabial in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bilabial and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Comprehensive Articulatory Phonetics: A Tool for Mastering ...
Many people find it much more difficult to hear the difference between labiodental and bilabial fricatives. The following exercise was formulated to help you distinguish between [f] and [(1)] and between [V] and [[5] more easily. Whether or not ...
T. L. Cleghorn, N. M. Rugg, 2011
2
Analyzing Sound Patterns: An Introduction to Phonology
In the production of these bilabial sounds, the lips are pressed together, hence the label, bilabial. English has three labio-dental sounds: m, f, and v. The production of these three sounds involves the contact of the upper teeth with the lower lip.
Long Peng, 2013
3
A Grammar and Dictionary of Indus Kohistani
... p unvoiced bilabial stop ph unvoiced aspirated bilabial stop f unvoiced bilabial fricative b voiced bilabial stop bh voiced aspirated bilabial stop m bilabial nasal consonant mh bilabial aspirated nasal consonant y voiced palatal approximant r  ...
Claus Peter Zoller, 2005
4
A Grammar of Hdi
Bilabial versus labial consonants Contrast among labial and labiodental underlying segments is provided by the following items: bizi 'pubic apron worn by young women', pitsakw 'hoe', fitfk 'sun', tiv/'road', vfxa 'sift', purkutu ndzum 'papaya' , ...
Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Erin Shay, 2002
5
The Didactics of Audiovisual Translation
Dialogue writers, then, adapt the translation to the articulatory movements of the on-screen characters, making sure that the translation particularly respects the open vowels and bilabial and labio-dental consonants pronounced on screen.
Jorge Díaz-Cintas, 2008
6
Phonetics for Communication Disorders
Word-final /t, d, n/ can assimilate to bilabial /p, b, m/ if the initial consonant of the following word is a bilabial and if the two words form a close syntactic group (e.g., a determiner and noun, adjective and noun, etc). Word-final /t, d, n/ can ...
Martin J. Ball, Nicole Muller, 2014
7
Vulgar Latin
The sound was thus at that time different from the labiodental [v] found in most Romance languages, such as French vivre and Italian were, and also from the voiced bilabial fricative sound [β], represented by the second letter v in Modern ...
Jozsef Herman, 2010
8
A Grammar of Sunwar: Descriptive Grammar, Paradigms, Texts ...
Table 11: Examples of contrasts between nasals 2.4.3 Bilabial plosives, bilabial approximant /w/ and former bilabial implosive // Sunwar has the bilabials /b/ [b], /p/ [p], /ph/ [ph ~ ], // [b ~ w] and /w/ [w ~ wh]. The phonemes /p/ [p] and /b/ [b] ...
Dörte Borchers, 2008
9
Papers in Laboratory Phonology V: Acquisition and the Lexicon
Thus, each bin includes a portion of the bilabial cycle during which perturbations occurred. For each difference measure (i.e., bilabial and laryngeal phase shifts; shifts in relative phase), separate /-tests were computed for each perturbation bin  ...
Michael B. Broe, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, 2000
10
Acoustics of American English Speech: A Dynamic Approach
The left spectrogram shows the vowel preceded by the bilabial /b/ and followed by the velar /k/. F2 moves from the low bilabial locus to the higher velar locus throughout the vowel. The steady state is indicated by a small region in the center of ...
Joseph P. Olive, Alice Greenwood, John Coleman, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BILABIAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bilabial is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Fethiye Confidential: Wondering to wandering
... as my mother says. As a ventriloquist with more passion that skill she loves the challenge of bilabial alliteration. Even if it doesn't make sense ... «Fethiye Times, Jun 15»
2
What would the Earl of Samwich say?
You can sort of move from the alveolar ridge to a bilabial sound easily enough, but if you make an 'm' you'll notice that it's also bilabial – your ... «Michigan Radio, Apr 15»
3
Jammers: An Afternoon With the Carolina Roller Girls
... of Dorton Arena, this caused a deafening fusillade of inaudible bilabial blasts reverberating off the walls like a Nine Inch Nails sound check. «Southern Pines Pilot, Mar 15»
4
Literary lyrics: Novelist Michael Chabon spun the words on Mark …
... Palin's fiancé's Facebook boasts, while another finds a love-struck poet bemoaning “bilabial plosives” — and for Folds' melodic ingenuity. «National Post, Jan 15»
5
How to say om nom nom in Hungarian, and other onomatopoeic …
Like its pre-internet equivalent, “yum yum yum”, it uses repeated bilabial consonants in imitation of the jaw movements made when eating; ... «The Guardian, Dec 14»
6
Snoring Is a Feminist Issue
Sometimes the noise is a gentle bilabial trill, the lips only gently parting, then it's all quiet, then suddenly there is a crescendo from the throat, ... «Huffington Post UK, Nov 14»
7
SC refuses to intervene in Chhattisgarh iron mining plea by NMDC
The high court had on 29 October stayed the execution of a mining lease granted to NMDC for 646 hectares in the Bilabial reserve forest area. «Livemint, Nov 14»
8
Practice, Practice, Practice
... to syllable structure: CV, CVC, CVC or custom, and combinations are grouped by articulatory placement: Bilabial, Alveolar, Velar and Palatal. «ADVANCE for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, Aug 14»
9
Apraxia Apps for the iPad
Similar to the first app, you can chose which sound group you would like to focus on (bilabial-bilabial; i.e. "map"), (velar-bilabial; I,e. "cub") and ... «ADVANCE for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, Aug 14»
10
Maybe Learning Amharic Isn't That Difficult After All
You can do the same thing with 't' on the roof of the mouth (called an alveolar plosive or stop) and with the 'p' sound (called a bilabial plosive or ... «The Reporter, Aug 14»

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