Noun | 1. | ![]() affrication - the conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate aspiration - a manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath epenthesis - the insertion of a vowel or consonant into a word to make its pronunciation easier; "the insertion of a vowel in the plural of the word `bush' is epenthesis" nasalisation, nasalization - the act of nasalizing; the utterance of sounds modulated by the nasal resonators pronunciation - the manner in which someone utters a word; "they are always correcting my pronunciation" retroflection, retroflexion - an articulatory gesture made by turning the tip of the tongue back against the roof of the mouth diction, enunciation - the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience syncopation, syncope - (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle') sandhi - the articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech) thickness - indistinct articulation; "judging from the thickness of his speech he had been drinking heavily" trill - the articulation of a consonant (especially the consonant `r') with a rapid flutter of the tongue against the palate or uvula; "he pronounced his R's with a distinct trill" |
2. | ![]() esophagogastric junction, oesophagogastric junction - the junction between the esophagus and the stomach epithelium | |
3. | ![]() verbal expression, verbalism, expression - the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions; "expressions of good will"; "he helped me find verbal expression for my ideas"; "the idea was immediate but the verbalism took hours" | |
4. | ![]() fetlock, fetlock joint - the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern hock-joint, hock - tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle elbow - the joint of a mammal or bird that corresponds to the human elbow body part - any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity hip socket - the socket part of the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the innominate bone articular muscle - a muscle that inserts directly onto the capsule of a joint articulatory system - the system of joints in the body endoskeleton - the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates) anatomy, general anatomy - the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals | |
5. | ![]() joining, connexion, connection - the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication); "the joining of hands around the table"; "there was a connection via the internet" |