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Meaning of "vowel-less" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VOWEL-LESS

vowel-less  [ˈvaʊəllɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VOWEL-LESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Vowel-Less is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES VOWEL-LESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of vowel-less in the English dictionary

The definition of vowel-less in the dictionary is having no vowel or voiced speech sound whose articulation is characterized by the absence of friction-causing obstruction in the vocal tract, allowing the breath stream free passage. Other definition of vowel-less is having no letter or character representing a vowel.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VOWEL-LESS


aisleless
ˈaɪllɪs
bowelless
ˈbaʊəllɪs
coalless
ˈkəʊllɪs
guileless
ˈɡaɪllɪs
heelless
ˈhiːllɪs
kernel-less
ˈkɜːnəllɪs
mail-less
ˈmeɪllɪs
peopleless
ˈpiːpəllɪs
recoilless
rɪˈkɔɪllɪs
saddleless
ˈsædəllɪs
sailless
ˈseɪllɪs
scrupleless
ˈskruːpəllɪs
shell-less
ˈʃɛllɪs
soilless
ˈsɔɪllɪs
soulless
ˈsəʊllɪs
tableless
ˈteɪbəllɪs
tailless
ˈteɪllɪs
veilless
ˈveɪllɪs
wall-less
ˈwɔːllɪs
zealless
ˈziːllɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VOWEL-LESS

voulu
voussoir
Vouvray
vow
vowel
vowel gradation
vowel mutation
vowel point
vowel shift
vowel sound
vowel-like
vowelisation
vowelise
vowelization
vowelize
vowelly
vower
vowess
vowless
vows

WORDS THAT END LIKE VOWEL-LESS

bless
bottomless
endless
gill-less
homeless
hull-less
keel-less
less
meal-less
much less
nail-less
regardless
skill-less
stainless
tool-less
trail-less
unless
victual-less
wheel-less
wireless

Synonyms and antonyms of vowel-less in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «vowel-less» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VOWEL-LESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

元音少
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

- vocal menos
570 millions of speakers

English

vowel-less
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्वर कम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

- حرف علة أقل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гласный - менее
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

- vogal menos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্বরবর্ণ-কম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

voyelle moins
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kurang vokal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vokal -less
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

母音レス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

모음 이없는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kurang aksara swara
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nguyên âm ít hơn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உயிரெழுத்து-குறைவான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वर-कमी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sesli harf-az
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

vocale -less
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mniej samogłosek
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гласний - менш
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

- vocală mai puțin
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φωνήεν - λιγότερο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vokaal - minder
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vokal -less
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vokal -less
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of vowel-less

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VOWEL-LESS»

The term «vowel-less» is barely ever used and occupies the 202.162 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VOWEL-LESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about vowel-less

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VOWEL-LESS»

Discover the use of vowel-less in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to vowel-less and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Oxford Handbook of Language Production
Not many studies have been done on vowel-less syllables, and the results that have been obtained so far are briefly summarized here. In the model as presented so far, the specific coordination patterns hypothesized to underlie gestural ...
Matthew Goldrick, Victor Ferreira, Michele Miozzo, 2014
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The World's Major Languages
Form IV is formed by prefixing a glottal stop (= Hebrew /h-/ and Ancient Egyptian / s-/) followed by /a/ and making the first radical vowel-less, e.g. / ̊ˇalasa/ 'he sat down' has /?a ̊ˇlasa/ 'he seated' as its causative. In addition to the (primary) ...
Bernard Comrie, 2009
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The Emergence and Linguistic Background of Judaeo-Arabic: A ...
It might be maintained that it was largely through this vowel-less script that Judaeo-Arabic became, for all Arabic- speaking Jewry, a sort of koine which was intelligible (setting aside dialectal vocables, peculiar to one dialect or the other) to ...
Joshua Blau, 1981
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Ethiopic Grammar
In Reflexive Stems of the type 't't'tt^ it occasionally happens, it is true, that the first radical has its a lengthened before the Aspirate which has become vowel-less, e- J. *f"^AA ; but, as a rule, both in this case and in others in which it is desired to ...
August Dillmann, Carl Bezold, 1907
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The Pronunciation of English: A Course Book
... of FOOT and others with the vowel of BREW; in Scotland, however, all such words are pronounced with the vowel of BREW—there is no FOOT-vowel, and that makes one vowel less in the inventory of Scottish English than in other dialects.
Charles W. Kreidler, 2008
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Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction
1958), have argued that Semitic script should be called syllabic rather than segmental, on the ground that a single Semitic letter stood for syllables such as / ba be bi bo bu/.2 But the vowel-less Semitic script is very different from a true syllabic ...
Geoffrey Sampson, 1985
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Connectionist Natural Language Processing: Readings from ...
Following a single consonant, a vowel is less likely, and following a vowel less likely still. In fact, the network does become sensitive to these contingencies: for the 200 test words, the mean outputs on the VOWEL output unit are 0.94 for the CC ...
Noel E. Sharkey, 1992
8
Brain Teasers in English
VOWEL-LESS. WORDS. The cryptic letters of the alphabet stand for words with the vowels missing. Clues to find the words are given along with the total number of letters in each word. For example, P - One of the primates (3) Ape. 1.
Gratian Vas, 1996
9
Arabic Grammar in Its Formative Age: Kitāb Al-ʻAyn and Its ...
... of the zagr ,,* « function with vowel-less termination 3 345, or vowel-less (gazm ) termination following a vocalized consonant ..^4-1 Xj> ^ »jLitV fj&* j*j ••$*". 6 1 34, or nasb in the case that the previous consonant is vowel-less i_»^ jLTL ...
Rafael Ṭalmôn, 1997
10
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics II: Papers from the ...
Furthermore, a representation like respects the contiguity constraint if and only if the initial C is analyzed as a moraic position in the vowel-less syllable, because syllabic wellformedness demands that, in any heterosyllabic CC sequence, the ...
Mushira Eid, John McCarthy, 1990

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VOWEL-LESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term vowel-less is used in the context of the following news items.
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Posted Jul 14, 2015 at 05:05pm
LNDN DRGS (the vowel-less version of 'London Drugs') is a duo consisting of Jay Worthy (a rapper hailing from Compton) and Sean House (a producer hailing ... «HotNewHipHop, Jul 15»
2
Most consecutive Tests, and vowel-less surnames
England just started a home Test only 18 days after finishing an away one. Is it a record for England, and what's the overall record for all countries? asked ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, May 15»
3
What's up with all those acronym and vowel-less restaurant names?
STK. GRK. DGS. GBD. DBGB. WTF. Washington has long been an abbreviation-happy town, from FDR to JFK, HUD to DOJ, BGSEEF to NCPPCC. (If you had ... «Washington Post, Jan 15»
4
Wordplay | Variety: A Vowel-less Crossword Puzzle
VARIETY PUZZLE — We haven't seen many of these vowel-less crossword puzzles in The New York Times since records have been kept of these things (there ... «New York Times, Jun 14»
5
When Emojis Won't Do: These New Text Typefaces Have The …
As daily human interaction continues to devolve into a grammar-free, increasingly vowel-less collection of letters and numbers sent via text message, the ... «Co.Create, May 14»
6
Twitter could have been called 'Friendstalker', 'Smssy' or 'Twitch'
In the end, of course, it was called 'Twitter' - though the company did spend a short amount of time as a vowel-less 'Twttr', Nick Bilton wrote on his blog, quoting ... «NDTV, Nov 13»
7
FlixMaster rebrands as Rapt Media to help online video evolve
Most young companies just focus on getting a unique domain name, which limits their choices (and has led to all of those annoying vowel-less Web 2.0 ... «VentureBeat, Jul 13»
8
Dio 'HLY DVR' License Plate - Pic of the Week
That's where we found this awesome license plate, which pays loud, proud and highly efficient, vowel-less tribute to Dio's 1983 debut album 'Holy Diver. «Ultimate Classic Rock, May 13»
9
Five Artists Too Cool For Vowels
Vowel-less and faceless, the masked producer has a knack for creating pop-friendly bass music that bridges the gap between the underground and mainstream. «LessThan3, May 13»
10
Your internet guide to April Fools': The top four jokes of the day
Twttr: A new, vowel-less way of communicating. On the eve of April Fools' Day, Twitter launched a revised, vowel-less, social media service. Yes, you read that ... «GlobalPost, Apr 13»

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