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Correspondent vs Consonant - What's the difference?

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Correspondent is a related term of consonant.


As adjectives the difference between correspondent and consonant

is that correspondent is corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous while consonant is characterized by harmony or agreement.

As nouns the difference between correspondent and consonant

is that correspondent is someone who or something which corresponds while consonant is (lb) a sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.

correspondent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
  • * Hooker
    • Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.
  • (with to or with) Conforming; obedient.
  • * 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
    • : Pardon, master: / I will be correspondent to command, / And do my spriting gently.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who or something which corresponds.
  • A journalist who sends reports to his newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.

    • Derived terms

    * correspondential * correspondently * correspondentship * foreign correspondent

    Hyponyms

    * stringer

    See also

    * corespondent * in Wikipedia

    References

    * ----

    consonant

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (lb) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
  • A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant , and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characterized by harmony or agreement.
  • * Bishop Beveridge
    • Each one pretends that his opinion is consonant to the words there used.
  • * Dr. H. More
    • That where much is given shall be much required is a thing consonant with natural equity.
  • Having the same sound.
  • * Howell
    • consonant words and syllables
  • (music) Harmonizing together; accordant.
    • consonant''' tones; '''consonant chords
  • Of or relating to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.
  • * T. Moore
    • No Russian whose dissonant consonant name / Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "consonant")

    Antonyms

    * disconsonant * discordant

    Related terms

    * consonance

    See also

    * vowel * semivowel * ----