consonant

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
2. isim A letter representing the sound of a consonant.

   “Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.”

3. sıfat Consistent, harmonious, compatible, or in agreement.

   “Each one pretends that his opinion […] is consonant to the words there used.”

4. sıfat Having the same sound.

   “1645-1650, James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae consonant words and syllables”

5. sıfat Harmonizing together; accordant.

   “consonant tones; consonant chords”

6. sıfat Of or relating to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.

   “No Russian whose dissonant consonant name / Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame.”