The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a consonant produced by stopping air at some point and suddenly releasing it
Synonyms: stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive
Antonym: continuant consonant (meaning #1)
stop consonant
| WordNet: stop consonant |
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- voiceless
- release
- voiced
- Long stop
- Medial (linguistics)
- Pre-voicing (phonetics)
- Lycian script
- Lydian script
- Semi-syllabary
- Sol Hoopii
