单词 | unrounded |
释义 | unroundedadj. 1. Not rounded. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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