About The Word Labial
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Labial
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What's The Definition Of Labial?
[n] a consonant whose articulation involves movement of the lips
[adj] relating to or near the female labium [adj] of or relating to the lips of the mouth; "labial stops" Synonyms | Synonyms for Labial: labial consonant Related Terms | Find terms related to Labial: accented | allophone | alveolar | apical | apico-alveolar | apico-dental | articulated | articulation | aspiration | assimilated | assimilation | back | barytone | bilabial | broad | cacuminal | central | cerebral | check | checked | close | consonant | consonantal | continuant | dental | diphthong | dissimilated | dissimilation | dorsal | epenthetic vowel | explosive | flat | front | glide | glossal | glottal | glottalization | guttural | hard | heavy | high | intonated | labialization | labiate | labiodental | labiovelar | laryngeal | lateral | lax | light | lingual | lipped | liquid | low | manner of articulation | mid | modification | monophthong | monophthongal | morphophoneme | mute | muted | narrow | nasal | nasalized | occlusive | open | oxytone | palatal | palatalized | parasitic vowel | peak | pharyngeal | pharyngealization | pharyngealized | phone | phoneme | phonemic | phonetic | phonic | pitch | pitched | plosive | posttonic | prothetic vowel | retroflex | rounded | segmental phoneme | semivowel | soft | sonant | sonority | speech sound | stop | stopped | stressed | strong | surd | syllabic | syllabic nucleus | syllabic peak | syllable | tense | thick | throaty | tonal | tonic | transition sound | triphthong | twangy | unaccented | unrounded | unstressed | velar | vocable | vocalic | vocoid | voice | voiced | voiced sound | voiceless | voiceless sound | voicing | vowel | vowellike | weak | wide See Also | bilabial | consonant | labial stop Labial In Webster's Dictionary \La"bi*al\, a. [LL. labialis, fr. L. labium lip: cf. F.
labial. See {Lip}.]
1. Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins.
2. (Mus.) Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe.
3. (Phonetics)
(a) Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b,
p, m, w.
(b) Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip
opening, as [=oo] (f[=oo]d), [=o] ([=o]ld), etc., and
as eu and u in French, and ["o], ["u] in German. See
Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 11, 178.
4. (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the labium; as, the labial
palpi of insects. See {Labium}.
\La"bi*al\, n. 1. (Phonetics) A letter or character representing an articulation or sound formed or uttered chiefly with the lips, as {b}, {p}, {w}. 2. (Mus.) An organ pipe that is furnished with lips; a flue pipe. 3. (Zo["o]l.) One of the scales which border the mouth of a fish or reptile. |
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