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Utterance vs Subtonic - What's the difference?

utterance | subtonic |

As nouns the difference between utterance and subtonic

is that utterance is an act of uttering or utterance can be the utmost extremity (of a fight etc) while subtonic is (music) the note immediately below the upper note of a musical scale.

As an adjective subtonic is

(phonetics|dated) of or pertaining to imperfectly articulated sounds or utterances that are inaudible or barely audible, as characterized by dr james rush (guide to pronunciation , 1833).

utterance

English

Alternative forms

* utteraunce

Etymology 1

From

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of uttering.
  • * (John Milton)
    • at length gave utterance to these words
  • Something spoken.
  • * , chapter=13
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances . He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
    • To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance : that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.
  • The ability to speak.
  • Manner of speaking.
  • * Bible, Acts ii. 4
    • Theybegan to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance .
  • * (John Keats)
    • O, how unlike / To that large utterance of the early gods!
  • (obsolete) Sale by offering to the public.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • (obsolete) Putting in circulation.
    • Quotations
    * Mathematics and Poetry are... the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart. — Thomas Hill
    Related terms
    * utter * utterable * utterer

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) oultrance.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).
  • *:
  • *:And soo they mette soo hard / that syre Palomydes felle to the erthe hors and alle / Thenne sir Bleoberis cryed a lowde and said thus / make the redy thou fals traytour knyghte Breuse saunce pyte / for wete thow certaynly I wille haue adoo with the to the vtteraunce for the noble knyghtes and ladyes that thou hast falsly bitraid

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    subtonic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (phonetics, dated) Of or pertaining to imperfectly articulated sounds or utterances that are inaudible or barely audible, as characterized by Dr. James Rush (Guide to Pronunciation , 1833).

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music) The note immediately below the upper note of a musical scale.
  • (phonetics, dated) An imperfectly articulated sound or utterance, as characterized by Dr. James Rush (Guide to Pronunciation , 1833).

    • References

    * * *Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989. *Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996.