| 单词 | phonetic |
| 释义 | phonetic (once / 4866 pages) adj Phonetic describes the way that spoken words sound. To sound out an unfamiliar word, you break it into its phonetic parts, saying each in the order in which it appears. When you use the word phonetic, you're talking about pronunciation, or the way language sounds. When you learn how to speak Chinese, for example, you're often taught both traditional Chinese characters and a phonetic alphabet, which helps people learn to correctly pronounce Chinese words. The Greek word for sound or voice is phone, and it's the root of phonetic, which was first used in the early 1800s. WORD FAMILYphonetic: phonetically, phonetics+/phonate: phonated, phonates, phonating, phonation/phonation: phonations/phone: interphone, phonate, phoned, phoner, phones, phonetic, phonic, phoning/phoner: phoners/phonetician: phoneticians/phonetics: phonetician USAGE EXAMPLESHere are words frequently used in real estate and architecture, along with their approximate phonetic pronunciations. Wall Street Journal(Nov 23, 2016) This was a world of disguises, after all, where a single phonetic gaffe or misplaced idiom could get an operative killed. Los Angeles Times(Nov 22, 2016) Blodgett found that language innovators have tried to address the issue, notably Noah Webster and Ben Franklin, but somehow their phonetic spelling simplications never took. Washington Times(Nov 14, 2016) 1adj of or relating to speech sounds phonetic transcription Syn phonic 2adj of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds phonetic analysis |
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