Nasal vs Denasalize - What's the difference?
nasal | denasalize |
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the nose.
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(phonetics) Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng; characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.
An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously, such as m'' and ''n .
(medicine, archaic) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
(phonetics) A nasal vowel or consonant.
Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
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* 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 463:
(anatomy) One of the nasal bones.
(zoology) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
(phonetics) To remove the nasal airflow of what is usually a nasal stop or nasal vowel.
As a noun nasal
is nasal consonant.As a verb denasalize is
(phonetics) to remove the nasal airflow of what is usually a nasal stop or nasal vowel.nasal
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Adjective
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Noun
(en noun)- The nasal continued in use until about 1140, when it was generally discarded, but isolated examples may be found in every succeeding century down to the seventeenth.
- Rorge had donned a black halfhelm with a broad iron nasal that made it hard to see that he did not have a nose.
