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PLOSIVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
Example:
his stop consonants are too aspirated
Synonyms:
occlusive; plosive; plosive consonant; plosive speech sound; stop; stop consonant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("plosive" is a kind of...):
obstruent (a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth)
Meronyms (parts of "plosive"):
implosion (the initial occluded phase of a stop consonant)
explosion; plosion (the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plosive"):
labial stop (a stop consonant that is produced with the lips)
glottal catch; glottal plosive; glottal stop (a stop consonant articulated by releasing pressure at the glottis; as in the sudden onset of a vowel)
click; suction stop (a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu))
