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Coronal vs Apical - What's the difference?

coronal | apical |

Apical is a coordinate term of coronal.



In phonetics terms the difference between coronal and apical

is that coronal is relating to a sound made with the tip or blade of the tongue while apical is a sound produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue.

As nouns the difference between coronal and apical

is that coronal is a crown or coronet while apical is a sound produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue.

As adjectives the difference between coronal and apical

is that coronal is relating to a crown or coronation while apical is of or connected with the apex.

coronal

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A crown or coronet.
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  • *:Therfore aryse and dresse the thow gloton / For this day shall thou dye of my hand / Thenne the gloton anone starte vp and tooke a grete clubbe in his hand / and smote at the kynge that his coronal fylle to the erthe
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:
  • *:That shall embellish more your beautie bright, / And crowne your heades with heavenly coronall , / Such as the Angels weare before Gods tribunall!
  • A wreath or garland of flowers.
  • * '>citation
  • (obsolete) A variant of colonel.
  • The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.
  • :(Hooper)
  • (label) A consonant produced with the tip or blade of the tongue.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • relating to a crown or coronation
  • * Milton
  • The law and his coronal oath require his undeniable assent to what laws the Parliament agree upon.
  • (astronomy) relating to the corona of a star
  • * Abney
  • The coronal light during the eclipse is faint.
  • * {{quote-web
  • , date = 2013-07-28 , author = Megan Gannon , title = Spacecraft Sees Giant 'Hole' In the Sun , site = news.yahoo.com , url = http://news.yahoo.com/spacecraft-sees-giant-hole-sun-video-153040642.html , accessdate = 2013-07-29 }}
    Coronal' holes are darker, cooler regions of the sun's atmosphere, or corona, containing little solar material. In these gaps, magnetic field lines whip out into the solar wind rather than looping back to the sun's surface. ' Coronal holes can affect space weather, as they send solar particles streaming off the sun about three times faster than the slower wind unleashed elsewhere from the sun's atmosphere, according to a description from NASA.
  • (botany) relating to the corona of a flower
  • (phonetics) relating to a sound made with the tip or blade of the tongue
  • * see
  • (anatomy) a "coronal plane" or a "coronal section" divides a body into dorsal (back) and ventral (front)
  • * see
  • Coordinate terms

    * * (phonetics) labial, dorsal, radical, laryngeal

    Hyponyms

    * (phonetics) interdental, dental, alveolar, postalveolar, retroflex, palatoalveolar, alveopalatal, palatal

    See also

    * (wikipedia "coronal")

    Anagrams

    * ----

    apical

    English

    (wikipedia apical)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or connected with the apex.
  • (botany, of a meristem) Situated at the growing tip of the plant or its roots, in comparison with intercalary growth situated between zones of permanent tissue.
  • (linguistics, of a sound) Produced with the tip of the tongue.
  • Derived terms

    * preapical

    Coordinate terms

    * * (linguistics) laminal, coronal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (phonetics) A sound produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue.
  • Anagrams

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