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Meaning of "obstruent" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD OBSTRUENT

From Latin obstruere to obstruct.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF OBSTRUENT

ˈɒbstrʊənt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OBSTRUENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Obstruent 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 OBSTRUENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Obstruent

An obstruent is a consonant sound such as, , or that is formed by obstructing airflow, causing a strong gradient of air pressure in the vocal tract. Obstruents contrast with sonorants, which have no such obstruction. Obstruents are subdivided into stops, such as, with complete occlusion of the vocal tract, often followed by a release burst; fricatives, such as, with limited closure, not stopping airflow but making it turbulent; and affricates, which begin with complete occlusion but then release into a fricative-like release. Obstruents are prototypically voiceless, though voiced obstruents are common. This contrasts with sonorants, which are prototypically voiced and only rarely voiceless.

Definition of obstruent in the English dictionary

The definition of obstruent in the dictionary is causing obstruction, esp of the intestinal tract. Other definition of obstruent is anything that causes obstruction.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OBSTRUENT

abluent · affluent · attenuant · confluent · congruent · constituent · continuant · deobstruent · diluent · effluent · fluctuant · incongruent · influent · interfluent · issuant · mellifluent · noncongruent · reconstituent · refluent · substituent

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OBSTRUENT

obstreperate · obstreperous · obstreperously · obstreperousness · obstriction · obstropalous · obstropulous · obstruct · obstructer · obstruction · obstruction of justice · obstructional · obstructionally · obstructionism · obstructionist · obstructive · obstructively · obstructiveness · obstructor · obtain

WORDS THAT END LIKE OBSTRUENT

consequent · delinquent · diffluent · eloquent · eluent · fluent · frequent · grandiloquent · inconsequent · ineloquent · infrequent · juvenile delinquent · magniloquent · mass affluent · sequent · subaffluent · subsequent · suent · unfrequent · unguent

Synonyms and antonyms of obstruent in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «obstruent» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF OBSTRUENT

Find out the translation of obstruent to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of obstruent from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «obstruent» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

的阻塞
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

obstruyente
570 millions of speakers
en

English

obstruent
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

obstruent
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

obstruent
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

шумного
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

obstruinte
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

obstruent
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

obstruante
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Obstruen
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

obstruent
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

閉鎖音
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

obstruent
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Obstruen
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

obstruent
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

obstruent
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

अडचण
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

obstruent
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

obstruent
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

obstruent
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

галасливого
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

obstruent
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αποφρακτικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

obstruent
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

obstruent
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

obstruent
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of obstruent

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OBSTRUENT»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of obstruent
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «obstruent».

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

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OBSTRUENT»

Discover the use of obstruent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to obstruent and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Child Language, Creolization, and Historical Change: Spanish ...
>m voiced heterogeneous combinations (less marked homogeneous combinations win) (12) <m final voiced or voiceless nasal 4- homorganic obstruent vs. >m nasal + heterorganic obstruent (less marked nasal + homorganic obstruent wins) ...
Eduardo D. Faingold, 1996
2
Phonology: Analysis and Theory
Another context where an obstruent does not have to agree with a following voiced labio-dental is word-internally. Some examples are offered in [17]. [17] o[ tvj]et 'answer, n.' not *o[dvj]et Mo[skv]a 'Moscow' not *mo[zgv]a [tv]oj 'your, masc.
Edmund Gussmann, 2002
3
The Proceedings of the Ninth West Coast Conference on Formal ...
The Redundancy Rule Ordering Constraint (Archangeli 1984) orders all redundancy rules inserting the value [-constricted glottis] before Post-Obstruent Tensing. But this will cause sonorants and aspirated obstruents, as well as lax obstruents, ...
Aaron L. Halpern, 1991
4
Introducing Speech and Language Processing
inner_onset --> [s], obstruent. inner_onset --> obstruent. inner_onset --> []. nucleus — > long_vowel . nucleus --> diphthong, nucleus — > short_vowel. 15 20 coda --> [ ] . coda --> sonorant . coda --> obstruent. coda --> sonorant, sonorant. coda ...
John Coleman, 2005
5
The Phonological Spectrum: Segmental structure
Glottal vibration is continuously present if the neutral obstruent is acoustically short, follows a sonorant or a vowel, and precedes a voiced stop. The obstruent is surrounded by segments that are produced with glottal vibration, and therefore ...
Jeroen Maarten van de Weijer, Vincent van Heuven, Harry van der Hulst, 2003
6
A Grammar of Lezgian
Labial Obstruent-Vowel Harmony This rule says that a vowel adjacent to a labialized obstruent must be rounded if it is not neutral with respect to the rounding opposition, i.e. */iCw/ and */Cwi/ are not allowed. (Note that this concerns only ...
Martin Haspelmath, 1993
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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
In combination ; a pipe through which the rate of flow is to be measured, an obstruent in the form of a bar fitted across said pipe, the said bar having a width less than the diameter of the pipe so as to leave a passageway at each side of the bar, ...
‎1913
8
Acoustic Phonetics
8. Obstruent. Consonants. 8.1 FRICATIVE CONSONANTS Fricative consonants are produced by forming a narrow constriction at some point along the length of the vocal tract and generating turbulence noise in the vicinity of this supraglottal ...
Kenneth N. Stevens, 2000
9
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
In combination ; a pipe through which the rate of flow is to be measured, an obstruent In the form of a tapered bar fitted across said pipe, the said bar having a width less than the diameter of the pipe so as to leave a passageway at each side of ...
United States. Patent Office, 1913
10
The Phonology of English : A Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic ...
This can be expressed as subtraction over rankings. Let us assume, then, that the rank of the second member is subtracted from the rank of the first member to provide a derived rank. Numerical rank assignments 1 2 3 4 *CoDA/obstruent ...
Michael Hammond, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OBSTRUENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term obstruent is used in the context of the following news items.
1
6 Landing Page pour augmenter son taux de conversion
landing page minimaliste Google. Dans ce cas là les Barbapapa « obstruent » un peu plus mes propos, mais qui n'aiment pas leurs doddle ? «Siècle Digital, May 15»
2
Little Foot, un australopithèque plus vieux que Lucy
... des ossements qui obstruent complètement la cavité. Comme pour la Grotte Chauvet à Lascaux, on sait que les grottes sont des milieux très ... «Toulouse Infos, Apr 15»
3
8 mauvaises habitudes qui peuvent ruiner votre peau
Objectif de la manoeuvre : la purifier et la débarrasser de toutes les impuretés qui obstruent ses pores. En outre, ce petit geste beauté quotidien ... «Terrafemina, Mar 15»
4
Nécrologie: Javis Nana avale son micro
Quelques véhicules obstruent l'entée du bâtiment. A l'intérieur au rez-de-chaussée, deux véhicules aux couleurs de la maison sont stationnées ... «Nouvelle Expression, Jan 15»
5
The City of Boston Wants to Help You With Your Spring Cleaning …
... Fenway Park and you've got a growing pile of crap from the winter so obstruent you can barely finagle your way in and out of your apartment. «BostInno, Apr 14»
6
Antananarivo – Les neuf défis d'Andriamanjato
Les commerçants ambulants qui obstruent les trottoirs devraient être casés dans des marchés, dans cinq mois. La sécurité des citoyens n'est ... «Express de Madagascar, Mar 14»
7
Sense in sounds
Within the obstruent group however, were electrodes that responded primarily to plosives, others that responded to fricatives, and so on. «The Economist, Jan 14»
8
A Manille, la mer est une décharge
“Il faut cesser de jeter des déchêts qui obstruent le système d'écoulement des eaux, car cela amplifie le problème des sévères inondations qui ... «euronews, Sep 13»
9
Hollande: le rappel à l'ordre du CJD
Ils obstruent les chemins par lesquels la société pourrait trouver les solutions. Leur omniprésence occulte les grands problèmes. «Le Figaro, Aug 12»
10
Oldies But Goodies: Star Spangled War Stories #110 (1963)
Des tonnes de rocher obstruent la seule issue visible. Il y a bien une sorte de puits de lumière naturel dans le plafond de la grotte. Mais il se ... «Comic Box, Aug 12»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Obstruent [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/obstruent>. May 2024 ».
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