单词 | phonophore |
释义 | phonophoren.ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] > other parts of telegraphs electric wire1819 pecker1858 sounder1860 motograph1874 contact-point1879 phonopore1885 phonophore1886 separator1891 syntonizer1900 power buzzer1918 1886 Nature 29 Apr. 610/1 Under the name of the ‘phonophore’ a remarkable telephonic invention is about to be introduced to public notice by Mr. Langdon Davies. 1889 Times (Weekly ed.) 29 Mar. 5/2 Phonophoric messages can be transmitted and received through an ordinary line wire by the phonophore. 2. Linguistics. A character or figure that represents a speech sound. ΚΠ 1990 Chinese Lit. 12 126 (note) The addition of a dog radical to phonophores used for the transcription of the names of non-Sinitic peoples was an age-old practice of mainstream literate culture in China. 2001 V. H. Mair Columbia Hist. Chinese Lit. i. 41 Most sinographs (roughly 85 percent) consist of a component that conveys sound (the phonophore) and a component that conveys meaning (the radical or semantic classifier). DerivativesΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Phonophorous [citing Coues]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1886 |
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