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Meaning of "creakiness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CREAKINESS

creakiness  [ˈkriːkɪnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CREAKINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Creakiness is a noun.
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.

WHAT DOES CREAKINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of creakiness in the English dictionary

The definition of creakiness in the dictionary is the tendency to produce creaks. Other definition of creakiness is lack of originality or vitality.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CREAKINESS


achiness
ˈeɪkɪnəs
blockiness
ˈblɒkɪnəs
chalkiness
ˈtʃɔːkɪnəs
chunkiness
ˈtʃʌŋkɪnəs
cliquiness
ˈkliːkɪnəs
corkiness
ˈkɔːkɪnəs
crankiness
ˈkræŋkɪnəs
dorkiness
ˈdɔːkɪnəs
flakiness
ˈfleɪkɪnəs
flukiness
ˈfluːkɪnəs
forkiness
ˈfɔːkɪnəs
freakiness
ˈfriːkɪnəs
funkiness
ˈfʌŋkɪnəs
geekiness
ˈɡiːkɪnəs
larkiness
ˈlɑːkɪnəs
leakiness
ˈliːkɪnəs
milkiness
ˈmɪlkɪnəs
pawkiness
ˈpɔːkɪnəs
pickiness
ˈpɪkɪnəs
quakiness
ˈkweɪkɪnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CREAKINESS

creagh
creak
creakily
creakingly
creaky
cream
cream cake
cream cheese
cream cracker
cream jug
cream of tartar
cream of tomato soup
cream puff
cream sauce
cream sherry
cream soda
cream tea
cream teas
cream-coloured
cream-crackered

WORDS THAT END LIKE CREAKINESS

agribusiness
big business
bulkiness
business
cleanliness
cleanliness is next to godliness
comeliness
dizziness
do the business
e-business
emptiness
family business
fitness
friendliness
happiness
holiness
laziness
loneliness
loveliness
readiness
timeliness

Synonyms and antonyms of creakiness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «creakiness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CREAKINESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

creakiness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

creakiness
570 millions of speakers

English

creakiness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

creakiness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

creakiness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

скрипучести
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

creakiness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

creakiness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

creakiness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketangkasan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

creakiness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

creakiness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

creakiness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Creakiness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

creakiness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

creakiness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आकुंचनपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gıcırdama
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

creakiness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

creakiness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

скріпучесть
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

creakiness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τρίξιμο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

creakiness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

creakiness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

creakiness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of creakiness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CREAKINESS»

The term «creakiness» is used very little and occupies the 178.726 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CREAKINESS» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CREAKINESS»

Discover the use of creakiness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to creakiness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2008 Conference
This paper adopts Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) for longterm analysis of voice quality, in particular creakiness. Each automatically labeled creaky instance ( word) is modeled as a document and different prosodic and syntactic cues as terms.
Plinio A. Barbosa, Sandra Madureira, César Reis.
2
Vietnamese Tone: A New Analysis
The crucial information is whether there is some creakiness in nga. Without a glottal stop or creakiness, nga would be confused with me], a rising tone. Figure 51 Shows the pitch graphs of both nga and me] for Hung. The tones are very similar ...
Andrea Hoa Pham, Laurence Horn, 2003
3
Strength and Weakness at the Interface: Positional ...
It is also not at all clear in light of the foregoing how to explain the properties of the final vowel in Figure 6, [rnat], above, in which amplitude declines gradually to the end of the vowel, first with creakiness, apparently easing into voicelessness at ...
Jonathan Barnes, 2006
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The Handbook of Language Variation and Change
Laryngeal factors have to do with settings of the vocal folds, such as breathiness and creakiness, and are often called phonation. Supralaryngeal factors have to do with settings above the larynx, including nasality and habitual tongue or lip ...
J. K. Chambers, Natalie Schilling-Estes, 2013
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Eloquence in Trouble : The Poetics and Politics of Complaint ...
Transcripts can represent prosodic and paralinguistic vocal features (that respectively vary continuously [e.g., loudness] and discontinuously [e.g., nasality, creakiness], as noted by Crystal 1971), but waveforms make these patterns visible in a ...
James M. Wilce Assistant Professor of Anthropology Northern Arizona University, 1998
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An Introduction to the Science of Phonetics
The scalar degrees assigned to harshness, creakiness, and whisperiness indicate their perceptual prominence relative to the voice component. Scalar degree 1 of whisperiness + voice would thus indicate that the voice component was much ...
Nigel Hewlett, Janet Mackenzie Beck, 2013
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Eastward Flows the Great River: Festschrift in Honor of ...
Creakiness is evident in the audio waveform in Figure 11.7, particularly between 0.6 and 0.8 s and in other tokens of this tone for this speaker. Frames 12 and 30 illustrate the appearance of the larynx during the peripheral parts of this tone ...
Gang PENG, Feng SHI, 2013
8
University of British Columbia Working Papers in ...
This experiment tests a subject's ability to perceive the laryngeal contrast between lll and /l7 in a minimal pair environment by manipulating the pitch track in a sequence containing III, thereby adding creakiness to the III with the expected result ...
9
ICASSP 82 : proceedings, May 3, 4, 5, 1982, Palais des ...
All voices had previously been perceptually rated on 6- degree scales of " harshness" (H) , "whlsperiness" Of) and "creakiness" (C) by trained raters. Table I presents selected intonatlonal and perturbational PGR data for the two groups of  ...
IEEE Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Society, 1982
10
A Figure of Speech: A Festschrift for John Laver
... Edinburgh, Scotland Demonstrated voice quality differences betweensocioeconomicgroups: • Standard Edinburgh English→ creaky voice, close jaw, • Males→more creakiness harshness • Females→more lip spreading, advanced tip/blade, ...
William J. Hardcastle, Janet Mackenzie Beck, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CREAKINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term creakiness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #26
Whilst there are bursts of unmistakably synthetic noise at fairly regular intervals, there's a creakiness to proceedings that deliberately betrays ... «Drowned In Sound, Jul 15»
2
'Happy Together' again and still fun: Turtles, Cowsills, Association …
Each song was elegantly executed, every high note hit, without a hint of creakiness. Not a single act was a one-hit wonder; each tight set was ... «Philly.com, Jun 15»
3
Reviews From Frameline Film Festival 2015
Despite the setting's beauty, the source material's plot creakiness is very loud. Margot's hostel provides a vacation refuge for a group of ... «Beyond Chron, Jun 15»
4
Adobe Creative Cloud 2015 drizzles Android apps, Photoshop …
And Bridge doesn't get any updates with this release despite its creakiness -- it's now two generations behind -- though Adobe says we should ... «CNET, Jun 15»
5
'Jurassic World' Is More of the Same – And That's A Great Thing
Jurassic Park began life as a pulp novel, and it has retained both those charms and those moments of creakiness in every installment. «The Moderate Voice, Jun 15»
6
Jurassic World 3D, film review: Happily it is every bit as …
It is theme park movie making which, in spite of its vast budget, has an engaging creakiness about it. Even seen in 3-D on the very biggest ... «The Independent, Jun 15»
7
Review of The Elephant Man starring Bradley Cooper at the Theatre …
But even as he rises to the physical and vocal challenges, he can't obscure the creakiness of the material with which he's working." «London Theatre Guide - Online, Jun 15»
8
Kobo Glo HD review: Superb screen to rival Kindle Voyage
However, its build quality is not quite at the level of Amazon's flagship Kindle Voyage ereader with a slight creakiness to the front plastic felt ... «Yahoo News UK, Jun 15»
9
The Ghost Train review – off the rails on a comedy detour
Hunter cleverly plays on that creakiness, deliberately heightening it, while relying on the clockwork nature of the plotting to generate momentum ... «The Guardian, May 15»
10
Worcestershire vs Durham day two: Scott Borthwick brings Durham …
Promoting himself from sixth in the batting to fourth, Paul Collingwood sought to arrest the creakiness but couldn't. Having scratched to three off ... «ChronicleLive, May 15»

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