Consonant vs. Alphabet

Consonantnoun

(phonetics) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.

Consonantnoun

A letter representing the sound of a consonant.

Consonantadjective

Characterized by harmony or agreement.

Consonantadjective

Having the same sound.

Consonantadjective

(music) Harmonizing together; accordant.

Consonantadjective

Of or relating to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.

Consonantadjective

Having agreement; congruous; consistent; according; - usually followed by with or to.

Consonantadjective

Having like sounds.

Consonantadjective

harmonizing together; accordant; as, consonant tones, consonant chords.

Consonantadjective

Of or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.

Consonantnoun

An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound.

Consonantnoun

a speech sound that is not a vowel

Consonantnoun

a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant

Consonantadjective

involving or characterized by harmony

Consonantadjective

in keeping;

Consonant

In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are [p], pronounced with the lips; [t], pronounced with the front of the tongue; [k], pronounced with the back of the tongue; [h], pronounced in the throat; [f] and [s], pronounced by forcing air through a narrow channel (fricatives); and [m] and [n], which have air flowing through the nose (nasals).

Alphabetnoun

The set of letters used when writing in a language.

Alphabetnoun

A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.

Alphabetnoun

A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. Contrast e.g. abjad.

Alphabetnoun

(computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.

Alphabetnoun

An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.

Alphabetnoun

The simplest rudiments; elements.

Alphabetverb

(rare) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

Alphabetnoun

The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

Alphabetnoun

The simplest rudiments; elements.

Alphabetverb

To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

Alphabetnoun

a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language

Alphabetnoun

the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural);

Alphabet

An alphabet is a standardized set of basic written symbols or graphemes (called letters) that represent the phonemes of certain spoken languages. Not all writing systems represent language in this way; in a syllabary, each character represents a syllable, for instance, and logographic systems use characters to represent words, morphemes, or other semantic units.The first fully phonemic script, the Proto-Canaanite script, later known as the Phoenician alphabet, is considered to be the first alphabet, and is the ancestor of most modern alphabets, including Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and possibly Brahmic.