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单词 unrounded
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unroundedadj.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈraʊndᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənˈraʊndəd/
Forms: see un- prefix1 and rounded adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, rounded adj.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + rounded adj.With sense 2 compare German entrundet (see unround v.), and also German ungerundet (1885 or earlier in phonetics).
1. Not rounded.
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the world > space > shape > angularity > [adjective]
corneredc1330
corneledc1400
angulousa1460
angulated1486
unrounded1519
nookedc1550
corned1564
angular1570
cornery1576
angled1612
angulate1670
angulose1694
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria x. f. 112v Rounded heare becometh men: and vnrounded women.
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1635) 90 Unfil'd pistolets..Which negligently left unrounded, looke Like many angled figures, in the booke Of some great Conjurer.
1694 J. Dryden To Sir G. Kneller in Ann. Miscellany 91 Flat Faces, such as wou'd disgrace a Skreen..Unrais'd, unrounded.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 388 Three teeth, rounded from point to point..three full teeth, unrounded.
1852 C. Lyell Man. Elem. Geol. (ed. 4) vii. 82 Similar unrounded nodules of flint.
1893 H. H. Howorth Glacial Nightmare I. 36 While rounded boulders occur on the mountains, unrounded ones occur in the river beds.
1931 A. D. Hall Soil (ed. 4) i. 16 The quartz particles are unrounded and the felspar particles are but little kaolinised.
2001 Sunday Times (Nexis) 18 Mar. Make your offer an unrounded figure, it may just tip the scales when all else is equal.
2. spec. in Phonetics. Of a phoneme, esp. a vowel: enunciated with the lips not rounded.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [adjective] > types of
openeOE
sharp?1533
simple1582
small1599
soft1625
obscurea1637
round1710
slender1755
close1760
wide1824
lowered1836
narrow1844
labialized1856
orinasal1856
central1857
reduced1861
free1864
high1867
low1867
mid1867
mixed1867
rounded1867
unrounded1871
raised1876
unreduced1894
obscured1897
spread1902
lax1909
slack1909
tense1909
centralized1926
flat1934
r-coloured1935
checked1943
1871 H. Sweet in A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. III. xi. 1196 I feel inclined to substitute the simple voice-glide unrounded (′'h) for the (′əh) wherever it forms the second element of a diphthong.
1890 H. Sweet Primer of Phonetics 24 Pairs of rounded and unrounded vowels are often formed with slightly divergent tongue-positions.
1908 Mod. Lang. Notes Mar. 69/1 It is the unrounded form of the short English (and German) u in foot, put, book, etc.
1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 10/1 In the Fante dialect..vowel harmony is more complex, depending also on the position of the lips: rounded and unrounded vowels may not be mixed in the same word.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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