"phonate" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /fəʊˈneɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /fə-/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈfoʊˌneɪt/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-phonate.oga [General-American]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”) + -ate (suffix indicating action in a specified manner), modelled after phonation. φωνή is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say, speak”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰeh₂-|id=speak}}, {{der|en|grc|φωνή|t=voice, sound}} Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”), {{suffix|en||ate|pos2=suffix indicating action in a specified manner}} + -ate (suffix indicating action in a specified manner), {{m|en|phonation}} phonation, {{lang|grc|φωνή}} φωνή, {{der|en|ine-pro|*bʰeh₂-|t=to say, speak}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say, speak”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} phonate (not comparable)
  1. voiced Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Phonetics
    Sense id: en-phonate-en-adj--7UbVPoH Disambiguation of Phonetics: 93 4 3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ate Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 70 17 13 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 80 6 15 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ate: 68 20 12

Verb [English]

IPA: /fəʊˈneɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /fə-/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈfoʊˌneɪt/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-phonate.oga [General-American] Forms: phonates [present, singular, third-person], phonating [participle, present], phonated [participle, past], phonated [past]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”) + -ate (suffix indicating action in a specified manner), modelled after phonation. φωνή is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say, speak”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰeh₂-|id=speak}}, {{der|en|grc|φωνή|t=voice, sound}} Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”), {{suffix|en||ate|pos2=suffix indicating action in a specified manner}} + -ate (suffix indicating action in a specified manner), {{m|en|phonation}} phonation, {{lang|grc|φωνή}} φωνή, {{der|en|ine-pro|*bʰeh₂-|t=to say, speak}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say, speak”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} phonate (third-person singular simple present phonates, present participle phonating, simple past and past participle phonated)
  1. (intransitive) To make sounds with the voice. Tags: intransitive Translations (to make sounds with the voice): произнасям (proiznasjam) (Bulgarian), fonirati (Serbo-Croatian), glasati se (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-phonate-en-verb-hshjOQ8l Disambiguation of 'to make sounds with the voice': 87 13
  2. (transitive) To use the voice to make (specific sounds). Tags: transitive Translations (to use the voice to make (specific sounds)): fonirati (Serbo-Croatian), glasati se (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-phonate-en-verb-mCJXactA Disambiguation of 'to use the voice to make (specific sounds)': 11 89
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: phonated [adjective], phonation

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1975, Philip Lieberman, On the Origins of Language: An Introduction to the Evolution of Human Speech, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, page 44; republished as Philip Lieberman, Sheila E[llen] Blumstein, “Source–filter Theory of Speech Production”, in Speech Physiology, Speech Perception, and Acoustic Phonetics (Cambridge Studies in Speech Science and Communication), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, page 36",
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          "ref": "1989, H. M. Teager, S. M. Teager, “Evidence for Nonlinear Sound Production Mechanisms in the Vocal Tract”, in William J. Hardcastle, Alain Marchal, editors, Speech Production and Speech Modelling (NATO ASI series, Series D, Behavioural and Social Sciences; 55), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →DOI, page 242",
          "text": "[A] salesman from DISA came and tried to sell us a hot-wire anemometer. For the pure fun of it, I stuck the hot-wire in my mouth and phonated. I had thought that the actual flows that occurred in the mouth during speech were relatively small and that they would be quite uniform.",
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          "ref": "1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner Classics; republished New York, N.Y.: Scribner, 2014, page 543",
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          "ref": "2011, David Blair McClosky, “The McClosky Technique: Posture and Breathing”, in Your Voice at Its Best: Enhancement of the Healthy Voice, Help for the Troubled Voice, 5th edition, Long Grove, Ill.: Waveland Press, page 1",
          "text": "If we are performing professionally, we must be able to keep on phonating for a long period of time while retaining a fresh, clear, and steady voice.",
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          "text": "Basically, I [countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo] use the same technique as a female mezzo-soprano, with one small physiological difference: I have to narrow my vocal cords to phonate [produce the sound].",
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        },
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          "ref": "1975, Philip Lieberman, On the Origins of Language: An Introduction to the Evolution of Human Speech, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, page 44; republished as Philip Lieberman, Sheila E[llen] Blumstein, “Source–filter Theory of Speech Production”, in Speech Physiology, Speech Perception, and Acoustic Phonetics (Cambridge Studies in Speech Science and Communication), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, page 36",
          "text": "Adult male speakers can phonate at fundamental frequencies that range between 80 and 300 Hz. Adult females and children normally phonate at fundamental frequencies that range up to about 500 Hz, although the fundamental frequency can go up to 1.5 kHz [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, H. M. Teager, S. M. Teager, “Evidence for Nonlinear Sound Production Mechanisms in the Vocal Tract”, in William J. Hardcastle, Alain Marchal, editors, Speech Production and Speech Modelling (NATO ASI series, Series D, Behavioural and Social Sciences; 55), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →DOI, page 242",
          "text": "[A] salesman from DISA came and tried to sell us a hot-wire anemometer. For the pure fun of it, I stuck the hot-wire in my mouth and phonated. I had thought that the actual flows that occurred in the mouth during speech were relatively small and that they would be quite uniform.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner Classics; republished New York, N.Y.: Scribner, 2014, page 543",
          "text": "I wanted to look up velleity and quotidian and memorize the fuckers for all time, spell them, learn them, pronounce them syllable by syllable—vocalize, phonate, utter the sounds, say the words for all they're worth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, David Blair McClosky, “The McClosky Technique: Posture and Breathing”, in Your Voice at Its Best: Enhancement of the Healthy Voice, Help for the Troubled Voice, 5th edition, Long Grove, Ill.: Waveland Press, page 1",
          "text": "If we are performing professionally, we must be able to keep on phonating for a long period of time while retaining a fresh, clear, and steady voice.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 August 8, Rupert Christiansen, “The truth about falsettos [print version: 12 August 2014, page R8]”, in Jason Seiken, editor, The Daily Telegraph (Review), London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-12-16",
          "text": "Basically, I [countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo] use the same technique as a female mezzo-soprano, with one small physiological difference: I have to narrow my vocal cords to phonate [produce the sound].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make sounds with the voice."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sounds",
          "sound#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "voice",
          "voice#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To make sounds with the voice."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1876, Bernard Fraenkel, “The General Diagnosis and Therapeutics of Diseases of the Nose, Naso-pharyngeal Space, Pharynx, and Larynx”, in Edward W. Schauffler, transl., edited by H[ugo Wilhelm] von Ziemssen, Cyclopædia of the Practice of Medicine, volume IV (Diseases of the Respiratory Organs), New York, N.Y.: William Wood and Company, […], →OCLC, page 41",
          "text": "[T]he tongue may rise up in the mouth, even while the patient phonates the vowel \"a\" [eh], in which case it will also need to be depressed by the finger, as just described.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1876 June, George M. Lefferts, “The Modern Methods of Examining the Upper Air Passages”, in E. C. Seguin, editor, A Series of American Clinical Lectures […], volume II, number 6, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, […], →OCLC, page 177",
          "text": "The third and last difficulty [...] is the drawing up of the velum and uvula tightly against the pharyngeal wall, which occurs as soon as the patient opens the mouth widely, or as soon as your instruments are introduced within it; and when you remember that the position that we wish it to assume, the one that it must assume before your examination can be made, is precisely that which it takes when all muscular movement is in abeyance, and that the patient cannot assist you by carrying out any movements or phonating sounds, as he does in laryngoscopy, you will see the difficulty that presents itself.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, William Vennard, Singing: The Mechanism and the Technic, 5th edition, New York, N.Y.: Carl Fischer, paragraph 444, page 124",
          "text": "Isshiki found that if a singer is asked to phonate Ee, Oo, and Ah at the same loudness he will actually make the Ah much louder than the other two. This is because he gauges loudness by the effort he is using, and in this experiment the subglottal pressure was the same for Ah and Oo, but the Ah was louder because the mouth was more open.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Angel S. Recto, “Language and Writing”, in Foundations of Education: (Anthropological, Psychological, Sociological, and Moral), volume I, Manila: Rex Book Store, section 2.3 (Consonantal Writing System), page 45",
          "text": "[S]uch consonants are are pronounced el, em, and en in English; while similar consonants are phonated la, ma, na in Filipino.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To use the voice to make (specific sounds)."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To use the voice to make (specific sounds)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/fəʊˈneɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fə-/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfoʊˌneɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-phonate.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fa/En-us-phonate.oga/En-us-phonate.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/En-us-phonate.oga",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (GA)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "proiznasjam",
      "sense": "to make sounds with the voice",
      "word": "произнасям"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to make sounds with the voice",
      "word": "fonirati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to make sounds with the voice",
      "word": "glasati se"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to use the voice to make (specific sounds)",
      "word": "fonirati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to use the voice to make (specific sounds)",
      "word": "glasati se"
    }
  ],
  "word": "phonate"
}

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    {
      "word": "unphonated"
    }
  ],
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    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰeh₂- (speak)",
    "English terms suffixed with -ate",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "English verbs",
    "en:Phonetics"
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      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "φωνή",
        "t": "voice, sound"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "",
        "3": "ate",
        "pos2": "suffix indicating action in a specified manner"
      },
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      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "phonation"
      },
      "expansion": "phonation",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "φωνή"
      },
      "expansion": "φωνή",
      "name": "lang"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*bʰeh₂-",
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      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say, speak”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”) + -ate (suffix indicating action in a specified manner), modelled after phonation. φωνή is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say, speak”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "phonate (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
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    "phon‧ate"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "voiced"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "voiced",
          "voiced"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fəʊˈneɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fə-/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfoʊˌneɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-phonate.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fa/En-us-phonate.oga/En-us-phonate.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/En-us-phonate.oga",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (GA)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "phonate"
}

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