A sound that gets out of your mouth with nothing in the way: your breath just flows, and the only thing that changes is the shape of the open space inside your mouth. Say 'ah', 'ee', 'oo' — your lips and tongue move, but they never touch and never block the air. That open, freely-flowing sound is the vowel; the letters a, e, i, o, u are just the marks we write it with.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
vowelnoun/ˈvaʊ.əl/
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human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsA sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
- Hawaiian has either five or twenty-five vowels, depending on how they are counted.
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communicationsjournalismliteratureA letter or diacritic representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y (sometimes), and w (rarely).
- The word facetiously is spelled with all six vowels in alphabetical order.
- The word cwm, borrowed from Welsh, is an example of the letter w serving as a vowel in English.
vowelverb/ˈvaʊ.əl/
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesTo add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic).
- However it should be vowelled – perhaps ‘Almaqah’ – his name seems to be composed of ‘Il’, the general name of the paramount Semitic deity […], plus another element that is possibly from the Sabaic verb wqh, ‘to command’ […].
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