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a closely related and sometimes less frequent form, as
spelt
for
spelled;
variant.
Origin:
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a movement in pitch serving to distinguish two words otherwise composed of the same sounds
to differ in a way that can serve to distinguish meanings: The sounds (p) and (b) contrast in the words ?pin? and ?bin?
a movement in pitch serving to distinguish two words otherwise composed of the same sounds
one of the alternate contextually determined phonological shapes of a morpheme; ox, oxen
characterized acoustically by noise of relatively high intensity, as sibilants, labiodentals and uvular fricatives, and most affricates
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a subsidiary or variant form
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