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1. (adj.) phonetic
of or pertaining to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
2. phonetic
representing speech sounds:
phonetic transcription.
3. phonetic
agreeing with pronunciation:
a phonetic spelling.
4. phonetic
pertaining to or involving the discrimination of nondistinctive speech elements of a language:
In English, the features of length and aspiration are phonetic rather than phonemic.
5. (n.) phonetic
(in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
Etymology: (1820–30; < NL phōnēticus < Gk phōnētikós vocal =phōnēt(ós) to be spoken (v. adj. of phōneîn to speak) +-ikos -ic)
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| Definition of 'phonetic' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) phonetic, phonic
of or relating to speech sounds
"phonetic transcription"
2. (adj) phonetic
of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds
"phonetic analysis"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) phonetic
of or pertaining to the voice, or its use
2. (adj) phonetic
representing sounds; as, phonetic characters; -- opposed to ideographic; as, a phonetic notation
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Sense: relating to the sounds of (a) language
He's making a phonetic study of the speech of the deaf.
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 Afrikaans: foneties |
 Arabic: صَوْتي |
 Bulgarian: фонетичен |
 Brazilian: fonético |
 Czech: fonetický |
 German: phonetisch |
 Danish: fonetisk |
 Greek: φωνητικός |
 Spanish: fonético |
 Estonian: foneetiline |
 Farsi: آواشناختی |
 Finnish: foneettinen |
 French: phonétique |
 Hebrew: פוֹנֶטִי |
 Hindi: ध्वन्यात्मक |
 Croatian: fonetski |
 Hungarian: fonetikus |
 Indonesian: fonetik |
 Icelandic: hljóðfræðilegur |
 Italian: fonetico |
 Japanese: 音声の |
 Korean: 음성(학)의 |
 Lithuanian: fonetinis |
 Latvian: fonētisks |
 Malay: fonetik |
 Dutch: fonetisch |
 Norwegian: fonetisk |
 Polish: fonetyczny |
 Persian: آواشناختی |
 Pashto: ږغيز، داّواز |
 Portuguese: fonético |
 Romanian: fonetic |
 Russian: фонетический |
 Slovak: fonetický |
 Slovenian: fonetičen |
 Serbian: fonetski |
 Swedish: fonetisk |
 Thai: เกี่ยวกับเสียงในภาษา |
 Turkish: fonetik, sesçil |
 Taiwanese: 語音的，語音學的 |
 Ukrainian: фонетичний |
 Urdu: صوتي، آواز سے متعلق |
 Vietnamese: ngữ âm |
 Chinese: 语音的，语音学的 |
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