plosive
- noun
- /ˈploʊsɪv/
- Specialized
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plosiva
- In linguistics, a plosive is a consonant sound produced by stopping airflow, like the 'p' in 'pat'.
Even the plosives that your foam thing here is are meant to pee, right, That you send out little sprays and those have viruses in them.
- Even the plosives that your foam thing here is are meant to pee, right, That you send out little sprays and those have viruses in them.
Examples
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The stimuli were separated into the categories of plosives, fricatives, affricates, nasals, and semivowels.
Academic text (1991) -
Even the plosives that your foam thing here is are meant to pee, right, That you send out little sprays and those have viruses in them.
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I felt her milky breath, the whispered 's' and the quick little plosives near my face.
Fiction book (2000) -
Also, the use of the voiceless velar plosive /k/ would lead to semantically meaningful Dutch words.
Academic text (2012) -
Plosive and fricative sounds were represented by bandpass noise whose duration was 30 msec for plosives and either 100 or 200 msec for fricatives.
Academic text (1991) -
In addition, these confusions represent the following deviations: voicing or devoicing in /n-s/, omission of a plosive /p/, and substitution of fricatives in /s-f/, respectively.
Academic text (1992) -
Words like 'bat' and 'dog' contain plosive sounds that are important in phonetics.
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Understanding plosives can help improve your pronunciation of languages.
Synonyms
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A consonant sound made by blocking the air and then releasing it
A speech sound, like p or b, made by stopping the air and then letting it out quickly
A sound you make when you block air and then let it out quickly
A speech sound made by stopping the breath completely and then letting it out
Compounds
- Specialized
A very short sound made by briefly closing and opening the voice box before a vowel
- Specialized
A speech sound, like p or b, made by stopping the air and then letting it out quickly
Surface Forms
Morphology
plosive = explosive (semi-transparent) = plos + ive
The relation to 'explosive' (sudden release) is clear in a technical sense, but the medical/phonetic usage is specialized and the root 'plos' is not a standalone English word.
Etymology
The word plosive is a helpful one to remember if you think of explode, because plosive sounds are made by stopping the air in the mouth and then suddenly 'bursting' it out. So a plosive is a consonant that makes a small 'explosion' of sound, like 'p', 't', or 'k'.