Syllable vs. Vowel

Syllablenoun

(linguistics) A unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of one or more consonants; a word consists of one or more syllables.

Syllablenoun

The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.

Syllablenoun

A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.

Syllableverb

To utter in syllables.

Syllablenoun

An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reënforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, 275.

Syllablenoun

In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language.

Syllablenoun

A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.

Syllableverb

To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.

Syllablenoun

a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme;

Syllablenoun

a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word; for example, there are two syllables in water and three in inferno.

Syllablenoun

a character or characters representing a syllable.

Syllablenoun

the least amount of speech or writing; the least mention of something

Syllableverb

pronounce (a word or phrase) clearly, syllable by syllable.

Syllable

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. It is typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).

Vowelnoun

(phonetics) A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.

Vowelnoun

(orthography) A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and y.

Vowelverb

(linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic).

Vowelnoun

A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; - distinguished from a consonant in that the latter, whether made with or without vocality, derives its character in every case from some kind of obstructive action by the mouth organs. Also, a letter or character which represents such a sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, 5, 146-149.

Voweladjective

Of or pertaining to a vowel; vocal.

Vowelnoun

a speech sound made with the vocal tract open

Vowelnoun

a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel

Vowel

A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Vowels are one of the two principal classes of speech sounds, the other being the consonant.