"long u" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: long ues [plural], long u's [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|+|'s}} long u (plural long ues or long u's)
  1. (linguistics) The sound /juː/, as in the words "cube" and "mute". (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in cubing versus cubbing). Coordinate_terms: long oo, short oo, long a, short a, long e, short e, long i, short i, long o, short o

Inflected forms

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    },
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          "word": "long oo"
        },
        {
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        },
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          "word": "short a"
        },
        {
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        },
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        },
        {
          "word": "long i"
        },
        {
          "word": "short i"
        },
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        }
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        "The sound /juː/, as in the words \"cube\" and \"mute\". (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in cubing versus cubbing)."
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          "mute",
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        [
          "silent e",
          "silent e#English"
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        [
          "subsequent",
          "subsequent#English"
        ],
        [
          "consonant",
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          "cubing",
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        ],
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          "cubbing",
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        ]
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        "(linguistics) The sound /juː/, as in the words \"cube\" and \"mute\". (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in cubing versus cubbing)."
      ],
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    },
    {
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        "plural"
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        },
        {
          "word": "short oo"
        },
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        },
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          "word": "short a"
        },
        {
          "word": "long e"
        },
        {
          "word": "short e"
        },
        {
          "word": "long i"
        },
        {
          "word": "short i"
        },
        {
          "word": "long o"
        },
        {
          "word": "short o"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The sound /juː/, as in the words \"cube\" and \"mute\". (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in cubing versus cubbing)."
      ],
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        ],
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          "mute",
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        ],
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          "silent e",
          "silent e#English"
        ],
        [
          "subsequent",
          "subsequent#English"
        ],
        [
          "consonant",
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        ],
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          "cubing",
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        ],
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          "cubbing",
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        "(linguistics) The sound /juː/, as in the words \"cube\" and \"mute\". (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in cubing versus cubbing)."
      ],
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}

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