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phonate

[foh-neyt]

verb (used with object), verb (used without object), -nat·ed, -nat·ing.

Phonetics. to provide (a sound source, and hence the pitch) for a given voiced continuant or vowel, through rapid, periodic glottal action.

to vocalize.

Origin:
1875–80; phon- + -ate¹

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any one of a variety of ingressive, usually implosive, speech sounds produced by suction occlusion and plosive or affricative release

articulation accompanied by an audible puff of breath, as in the h-sound of how or in the release of initial stops, as in the k-sound of key

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World English Dictionary

phonate (fəʊˈneɪt)

—vb
	(intr) to articulate speech sounds, esp to cause the vocal cords to vibrate in the execution of a voiced speech sound

[C19: from Greek phōnē voice]

pho'nation

—n

phonatory

—*adj*

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phonate pho·nate (fō'nāt')
v. pho·nat·ed, pho·nat·ing, pho·nates
To utter speech sounds; vocalize.

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