| On Nolte's track, the artist uses the melodic sounds of a xylophone to jazz things up a bit. |
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| Visitors can be entranced by the different sounds of a trio, quartet or quintet. |
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| After clocking up 10,000 miles, it still sounds as smooth as the day I first drove it. |
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| These sounds, called clicks, can be produced in such rapid succession as to sound like a buzz or even a duck-like quack. |
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| Everything from tribal sounds, acid jazz, trip hop, and drone rock can be heard throughout the three albums. |
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| Towards the end of the decade he shifted from hip hop to acid house and the rave scene, and soon began recording his own sounds. |
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| As if a film about three women has to have all the traditionally feminine sounds, and you can't get more feminine than strings, piano and harp. |
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| These comprise the quintessential sights and sounds of Maritime coastal communities. |
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| Trees absorb the siren wails, clanging of trash cans, and other sounds of urban life. |
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| Campbell worked with a dialect coach to perfect her queenly accent, which sounds fresh from the old British film Brief Encounter. |
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| Cool air wafted up from the breezes blowing outside, carrying the sounds of downtown New York City into my room. |
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| These are men who travel the rails taking in all the sights and sounds the world has to offer. |
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| I could hear the faint sounds of Van Morrison wafting from a car stereo in the parking lot. |
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| Passareil said nothing and the room went quiet except for the sounds of grief wafting up from below. |
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| In the distance now they could hear the sounds of many more men shouting, a ragged chorus that rose over the clatter of steel against steel. |
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| Ness sounds as hushed, gravelly, and desperate as always, singing over that ragged guitar twang. |
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| Remote and romantic they might seem from afar, but the desert wastes of the Western Sahara are echoing to the sounds of preparation for war. |
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| We went for a weekend, which on the face of it sounds like an extravagant waste of time, but was actually painlessly good fun. |
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| The main symptoms are sudden, severe dizziness, partial deafness, sounds in the ear and jerky eye movements. |
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| His accompaniment sounds like evil burlesque music, lurching forward, undressing you with its eyes. |
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| And McManus' voice, quavering, stretching and choking its way around the tunes, makes sure it always sounds very human. |
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| It sounds like it's well-made and interesting but perhaps it's something to save for a more positive moment. |
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| They'd started moving downwards when the sounds of shouting, feet, and equipment jangling drifted up. |
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| That sounds arrogant but I liked the part, and I thought, well, who's he gonna get? |
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| Sounds do have certain mathematically expressible accidents, but the science of proportions does not establish the substance or nature of sounds. |
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| I stopped pacing and started running feebly, my heart now racing in fear, the sounds in the woods growing incredibly loud and frightening. |
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| Although I'm heartily sick of three letter acronyms, NBA sounds impressive. |
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| From the irresistible party jams of South Bronx to the urban sounds of today, hip-hop has maintained close links with its roots. |
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| He enjoyed mixing traditional pop sounds with weird instruments like the French Horn. |
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| The sounds of battle surrounded me, making me feel as if I were in the midst of a war-torn city. |
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| Feldstein mentions some revenue-neutral tax jiggering that could be stimulative, but that sounds like fairly ordinary tax policy stuff to me. |
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| I hear that high, adenoidal voice that sounds like 50 other kids who have that same adenoidal voice. |
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| It sounds as if your mother plant has produced suckers while the fruit has been developing and ripening. |
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| The soundtrack sounds reasonably clean, and the dialogue and laugh tracks are acceptably distinct. |
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| Finland's 60,000 lakes are linked by short rivers, sounds, or canals to form busy waterways. |
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| The air was still and calm, the forest quiet but for the sounds of small animals, making their way from tree to tree. |
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| Thousands of people have experienced mysterious lights and weird sounds above the ancient fort at Cley Hill during the past 40 years. |
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| Meetings held on the floor below are being interrupted by the sounds of waltzes, quicksteps and foxtrots on wooden floors. |
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| Its rhythmic verve and thematic appeal carry it along, even if it sounds like Mozart warmed-over. |
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| Without a studio audience to warm things up, Vaughan's attempts to jolly things along fall flat to the sounds of nervous giggles from the crew. |
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| In the modern state of heightened wariness, staring like a dullard sounds no more demeaning than walking in your socks through airport security. |
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| It sounds like a question for law students in their cups, but it actually entered a federal courtroom earlier this year. |
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| It sounds like a great adventure, and the best thing is that you can tag along with her because she is blogging her trip. |
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| Despite the billing, it sounds to me like any of the local public radio news and talk shows. |
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| Quickly sensing the acoustic mismatch, the woman closes the bathroom door, muting the water sounds. |
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| They hold the moment for a little longer, not noticing the light turning green until a horn sounds from behind. |
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| It sounds like I'm quibbling over grammar, but actually I reckon it's important. |
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| If this sounds like it could lead to sappy and sentimental situations, well, it does. |
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| Part of me thinks what he does here's extremely cool and part of me thinks he looks and sounds like a complete jackleg. |
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| Soon the sounds of tuning instruments filled the afternoon, then the accordion warbled out its organ-like notes. |
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| Yep, from various people's descriptions a small oil radiator sounds like exactly what I'm looking for. |
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| For instance, ceiling tiles that absorb sounds and reduce noise levels can cost about the same as materials that are less sound-absorbent. |
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| I leant my head against it, expecting to feel heat radiate through it, or pick up muffled sounds. |
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| But when she harps on about her looks, it sounds like relentless narcissism. |
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| In an open office, its acoustic function is to absorb sound and reduce the reflection of sounds back down into the office space. |
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| As it happens, these neurons are also very sensitive to the acoustic boundaries between speech sounds, as are monkeys and human infants. |
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| To find out, the research team devised an experiment using an electronic shaker that converts acoustic sounds into vibrations. |
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| Each musician uses a fibre-optic wand to trigger samples of the space sounds. |
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| It sounds a very dubious principle and inconsistent with the accusatorial trial. |
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| I know, it sounds silly to say that you go through hard times with someone you've never met, but we did. |
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| But very sensitive hearing is necessary to hear all the acoustic cues in speech sounds. |
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| The night crawlers moved freely around them with their sounds echoing in the wilderness. |
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| The sounds of barking dogs and sirens added to the cacophony on the streets. |
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| Or maybe that sounds incredibly pretentious and I just waffle. |
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| For the first time in this war, the sounds of rifle file were celebratory rather than a part of combat. |
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| So why are we so surprised that, without the help of Auto-Tune, Spears sounds almost unrecognizable? |
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| The sounds she performs from the violins on canvas replicate her idea of sounds found in the cosmos. |
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| All sounds of life die out upon the earth, the last notes of the sleepy birds have sunk away, the Angelus of the church hard by has rung the close of day. |
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| Looking back, the designation appears and sounds absurdly portentous. |
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| This is a real trip around the world, into some unexpected nooks and crannies, and for new sounds to satisfy your wanderlust, you might have a hard time doing better. |
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| Christie, who places a premium on the fact that he was cool in high school, sounds conservative memes without invoking the Divine. |
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| To establishment Republicans and Democrats, that sounds like an absurdly narrow and implausible vision. |
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| It sounds cruel, but during one long hot summer I did once shock a blind camellia into flowering by withholding water for as long as I felt the plant could bear it. |
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| I know it sounds funny to say that I told someone about the blog and then sound shocked that they read it, but, again, cancer. |
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| Running Hyde Park in the early morning affords a blend of sights, sounds, and, yes, smells. |
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| It all sounds a bit dramatic, but that cactus feels like something special. |
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| Peaceful sounds of nature, combined with water running through a mill wheel, set the tone for a soothing, scenic tour around a deserted watermill. |
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| Still more keys engage an array of other sounds, from snare drums and cymbals to awooga horns and sirens. |
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| I'm not sure what it is, but it kind of sounds like my teenage boys' room after burrito night. |
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| Ravaged, raddled, redolent of hard-won experience, his voice sounds like something dreamed up by the Department of Health in order to scare people off smoking. |
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| If you're a skeptic like me, this entire process sounds like one massive shake of the head from start to finish. |
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| A high end audio system from 50 years ago sounds better than your degraded, compressed product. |
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| That sounds small, but the buildup of Hezbollah forces in Syria was gradual, too. |
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| To my contemporary ears, the plea sounds achingly, foolishly optimistic. |
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| With a name full of jargon jive and a cast of unknown comedians and aspiring actors, this marketed as a hip urban comedy sounds like a prescription for disaster. |
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| When romancing the dewy briony, the cosmopolitan New Yorker Andrew sounds like the creepy European Humbert Humbert. |
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| Such admiration for the American system sounds strange in this era of gridlock and bickering. |
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| At the same time, I also felt some sympathy for an 18-year old who sounds a bit freaked out by the Blogosphere's focused attention on her quotidian activities. |
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| If you're close enough, the first sound is that of an earsplitting blast and the sounds that follow are of a rain of glass, shrapnel and other sharp things. |
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| Then, incredibly, he cocked his head and started making cooing sounds at the baby. |
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| Researchers studying the effectiveness of wailers in Melbourne observed some bats actually hanging from the speakers to investigate the strange sounds more closely. |
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| When the towers collapsed, my building was shrouded in a debris cloud that shut out the light of day and muffled the sounds of firemen shouting and sirens wailing. |
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| Soon the only sounds were the clank of a shovel and thuds of dirt being moved. |
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| Their meals in the darkness were often interrupted by the wail of sirens, the sounds of bombs, and the screams of frightened civilians as they rushed to the nearest bunker. |
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| And I admit I look back on my teenage self and think a lot of my angst sounds like an Onion article. |
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| Historians have their own theories, involving trade and colonization, but this sounds more likely. |
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| Even if her belting occasionally sounds forced, all of the experts praised the undeniable power Cyrus has when singing. |
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| Thunderous sounds announce its arrival, piercing the silence that accompanies sundown in the swampland near Boystown, Liberia. |
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| The whole episode sounds eerily similar to that which befell his Bully co-star, the late Brad Renfro. |
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| The Maori component includes some songs in traditional waiata style composed by Wi Kuki Kaa, and some engaging sounds from Richard Nunns playing Maori instruments. |
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| Clevenger sounds little better than he did 10 years ago in a letter to the editor in the Aurora advertiser. |
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| This being a manifesto, there are a few moments when almond sounds like a self-righteous crank. |
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| I would rather not say it annoys me because it sounds so aggrieved and me-centered. |
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| It sounds like you're in the bathtub with me as I describe the back massage I am about to give you. |
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| We retooled music, which sounds sort of small and auxiliary, but I think we figured out a way to help the audience. |
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| Then he carefully cleaned and salved the cuts and scrapes on my face and palms, kissing them lightly and whispering meaningless, soothing sounds to me all the while. |
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| Many languages that use a form of the Latin alphabet have more vowel sounds than can be represented by the standard set of five vowel letters. |
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| Many languages make extensive use of combinations of letters to represent various sounds. |
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| In Kazakh and certain other Turkic languages, words without vowel sounds may occur due to reduction of weak vowels. |
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| This process is related to vacuum bag molding in exactly the same way as it sounds. |
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| The sounds originate in the tendons of the knees and may be audible from ten meters away. |
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| By controlling the different parts of the speech apparatus, the airstream can be manipulated to produce different speech sounds. |
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| Vowels are those sounds that have no audible friction caused by the narrowing or obstruction of some part of the upper vocal tract. |
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| Consonants are those sounds that have audible friction or closure at some point within the upper vocal tract. |
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| The ways in which languages use sounds or signs to construct meaning are studied in phonology. |
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| The study of how humans produce and perceive vocal sounds is called phonetics. |
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| Writing systems represent language using visual symbols, which may or may not correspond to the sounds of spoken language. |
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| From birth, newborns respond more readily to human speech than to other sounds. |
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| Around one month of age, babies appear to be able to distinguish between different speech sounds. |
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| Around six months of age, a child will begin babbling, producing the speech sounds or handshapes of the languages used around them. |
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| Sound changes can be conditioned in which case a sound is changed only if it occurs in the vicinity of certain other sounds. |
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| For descriptions of the sounds and definitions of the terms, follow the links on the headings. |
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| Odin responds that Bragi knows well that the sounds are for Eric Bloodaxe, who will soon arrive in Valhalla. |
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| And when you take a Playboy interview, where they pump sound bites into the media, it all sounds much harsher than you intended. |
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| The rhythm and song of Yosim Pancar dance are now being modernized with special effect sounds and pop dance beat. |
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| The music initially starts with guitar sounds, and then the sounds of clarinets, harps, saxophones, etc. |
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| Polar bears are usually quiet but do communicate with various sounds and vocalizations. |
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| There are a number of other sounds made by cattle, including calves bawling, and bulls bellowing. |
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| It opens with a W.H. Auden poem that is read with the urgency and the rhythm of the piston on a steam engine. It sounds like proto-rap. |
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| Phonology, on the other hand, is concerned with the abstract, grammatical characterization of systems of sounds or signs. |
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| Phonetics deals with the articulatory and acoustic properties of speech sounds, how they are produced, and how they are perceived. |
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| Phonetic transcription is a system for transcribing sounds that occur in a language, whether oral or sign. |
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| Phonology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages. |
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| Different linguists therefore take different approaches to the problem of assigning sounds to phonemes. |
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| Clusters are made of two or more consonant sounds, while a digraph is a group of two consonant letters standing for a single sound. |
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| Pronunciation in a second or foreign language involves more than the correct articulation of individual sounds. |
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| Different speech sounds that are realizations of the same phoneme are known as allophones. |
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| A phoneme is a sound or a group of different sounds perceived to have the same function by speakers of the language or dialect in question. |
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| A precise phonetic transcription, in which sounds are described in a great deal of detail, is known as a narrow transcription. |
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| Representations of consonant sounds outside of the core set are created by adding diacritics to letters with similar sound values. |
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| In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating. |
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| Sonorants are sounds such as vowels and nasals that are voiced in most of the world's languages. |
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| Diacritics are typically used with letters for prototypically voiceless sounds. |
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| Aspirated consonants are not always followed by vowels or other voiced sounds. |
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| Since phonemes are abstractions of speech sounds, not the sounds themselves, they have no direct phonetic transcription. |
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| In the sonority hierarchy, all sounds higher than fricatives are sonorants. |
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| Phonotactic rules determine which sounds are allowed or disallowed in each part of the syllable. |
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| The onset is the consonant sound or sounds at the beginning of a syllable, occurring before the nucleus. |
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| The coda comprises the consonant sounds of a syllable that follow the nucleus. |
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| The other sounds that can serve as the peak of reduced syllables are the syllabic consonants. |
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| People with the shift pronounce bus so that it sounds more like boss to people without the shift. |
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| A digraph is a pair of letters used to write one sound or a combination of sounds that does not correspond to the written letters in sequence. |
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| Liverpool's dialect is influenced heavily by Irish and Welsh, and it sounds completely different from surrounding areas of Lancashire. |
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| Corby's dialect is influenced heavily by Scots, and it sounds completely different from the rest of Northamptonshire. |
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| A pidgin may be built from words, sounds, or body language from multiple other languages and cultures. |
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| Another dance performed by males is called the fa'ataupati or the slap dance, creating rhythmic sounds by slapping different parts of the body. |
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| However, a clustering of sounds at the beginning of a syllable can be readily observed in such languages as Shona, and the Makua languages. |
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| I know this sounds real quacky but they did some mysterious good to the problem and I feel fine. |
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| He looks like Eddie Izzard gone too far and sounds a little like Rod Steiger's queenie turn in No Way to Treat a Lady. |
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| It sounds like Wilder is at his raconteurial best, telling stories and showing off his wit. |
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| The division bell sounds around Leinster House and the adjoining Oireachtas buildings, calling TDs to the chamber to vote. |
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| While typically thought of as mute, turtles make various sounds when communicating. |
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| The sensuous sounds of soul music created a warm atmosphere. |
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| It sounds rather Aesopish. Talking snakes, one bad apple ruining it all. I'm not so sure. |
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| It is beyond a doubt that many sounds are articulable, which do not occur in English. |
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| The bangbus was battered and blazing. Showing off, what unmuffled sounds we made. |
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| On his first trip to the circus, he was bedazed by the myriad colours, sounds and smells. |
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| He approaches with snurffly sounds and a twitching nose, and your blennophobia kicks in, producing a hurried word of encouragement and a carrot. |
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| The principle still sounds good, but our astronomical knowledge is limited, and we haven't yet discovered any such brethren solar systems. |
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| Why add this extra layer of software? It sounds like someone is wanting to use their new BSO. I wouldn't use it in my production environments. |
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| The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here. |
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| Although bubblejet technology sounds messier than inkjet technology, bubblejets typically produce better images than inkjets. |
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| But it sounds to me like you're in a totally different category. Not garden-variety cantrip stuff. |
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| The electronic smoke alarm includes a chirper which sounds when the battery is low. |
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| Booth Dressing up like some crackerass white man, some dead president and letting people shoot at you sounds like a hustle to me. |
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| Gordon Brown sounds like a Dalek with about three stock phrases... Remember, Daleks always want world domination but they always lose. |
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| Shall we decimate them? That sounds good, nice word. Remove one-tenth of the population! |
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| Played traditionally, the dulcimer sounds delightful with drones acenting the melody you are playing. |
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| But now the little Other eggling was making loud peeping sounds. It was hungry. |
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| Diarmid sang in a language Camrose didn't know, with a lot of liquid sounds mixed up with exhalings from deep in the throat. |
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| He sounds intimidating over the phone, but if you meet him face to face you will find he is a friendly enough fellow. |
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| You need to provide fame-ish photos and music that sounds sufficiently close to famous music that it won't freak people out. |
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| The upstairs nightclub specialises in reggae on Frinight, and more chilled dance sounds on Saturday and Sunday. |
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| No on had time to answer, for just then all frogdom seemed to croak inquiringly, in answer to the sounds coming from the burlap bag. |
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| The red gumbo soil uttered ugly sucking sounds at the touch of a man's boot. |
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| For the vowel sounds of the English language, however, correspondences between spelling and pronunciation are more irregular. |
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| That sounds odd here in Washington these days, but some of the old-timers still like to pretend there is honor alive among the political thieves. |
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| In Classical Latin, double consonant letters corresponded to long consonant sounds that were distinct from short versions of the same consonants. |
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| Primitive languages being founded on the direct imitation of natural sounds, necessarily abound in imitative harmony. |
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| So the science of phonetic metamorphology concerns itself quite largely with interchangings among the sounds of speech. |
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| Just tap and slide a finger along this pocket-size synth's touchpad to create your own Kraftwerkian sounds. |
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| The original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriological, because it represented the pure elementary sounds. |
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| I know that sounds cynical, but this latest scandal with cyclist Floyd Landis is the living end. |
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| There must be at least one of the alliterating sounds on each side of the caesura. |
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| English contains a number of sounds and sound distinctions not present in some other languages. |
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| Speakers of languages without these sounds may have problems both with hearing and with pronouncing them. |
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| You auscultate her lung sounds and hear scattered wheezing in all lung fields. |
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| And, as always, an Indian close outside the window, a mali in this case, picking up sounds. |
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| Regardless, Britpop artists project a sense of reverence for British pop sounds of the past. |
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| In the 21st century, reports surfaced about a 1982 album that sounds similar to what would later be called acid house. |
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| The sounds of drum and bass are extremely varied due to the range of influences behind the music. |
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| Roni Size's label played a big, if not the biggest, part in the creation of drum and bass with their dark, baseline sounds. |
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| In my opinion, the chief requisite for an actor is the ability to do nothing well, which is by no means as easy as it sounds. |
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| Many nearby local waters on rivers, bays, sounds, and coastlines can become great natural cruising grounds for this type of recreational sailing. |
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| The Croatian delegation stated that there were no human voices, but only digitally synthesised sounds which replicated vocals. |
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| The video consists of a minimusical whose soundtrack sounds as if it were generated by an inexpensive electronic keyboard. |
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| Even within an apparently English-only range, sounds are difficult enough to govern, as Quince's misstopped Prologue makes clear. |
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| Mistpouffers are dull, distant explosive sounds heard around the coast of Europe all the way to Iceland. |
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| That sounds good, but in the process, the society takes seed corn out of production and diverts it to food, thereby cannibalizing itself. |
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| Many consonant clusters have different sounds than their constituent consonants. |
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| Occasionally also voiceless consonant letters can represent voiced sounds in clusters. |
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| The work is for twelve singers, large mixed choir, children choir, accordion, dancer and electronics sounds. |
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| The first, Guitars, used guitars as the source for all the sounds on the album, including percussion. |
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| Sound technicians spent the early part of the year trying to find the right sounds. |
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| Some, such as animal sounds like those of tigers and walruses, were bought. |
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| The music of Ethiopia is extremely diverse, with each of the country's 80 ethnic groups being associated with unique sounds. |
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| The stoat is a usually silent animal, but can produce a range of sounds similar to those of the least weasel. |
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| This was a royal guard unit which had previously practiced to the sounds of an oboe called pi chawa. |
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| From the evocative sounds of the bagpipes to the great sport of golf, the Scots have also left an indelible mark on American culture. |
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| See Early Cyrillic alphabet for a detailed description of the script and information about the sounds it originally expressed. |
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| He has been noodling with that trumpet all afternoon, and every bit of it sounds awful. |
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| Dolphins are capable of making a broad range of sounds using nasal airsacs located just below the blowhole. |
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| Dolphin echolocation clicks are amongst the loudest sounds made by marine animals. |
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| They emit clicking sounds and listen for the return echos to determine the location and shape of nearby items, including potential prey. |
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| A broadband burst pulse of clicking sounds is emitted in a focused beam in front of the dolphin. |
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| When the clicking sounds hit an object in the water, like a fish or rock, they bounce off and come back to the dolphin as echoes. |
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| As the object of interest is approached, the echo becomes booming, and the dolphins adjust by decreasing the intensity of the emitted sounds. |
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| Bottlenose dolphins communicate through burst pulsed sounds, whistles, and body language. |
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| Lacking vocal cords, they produce sounds using six air sacs near their blow hole. |
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| The dolphins emit these strident sounds when in the presence of other individuals moving towards the same prey. |
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| This sounds like we are playing number games, and I wonder if 20000 megawatts is a realistic guess. |
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| Many sounds we hear, such as when hard objects of metal, glass, or wood are struck, are caused by brief resonant vibrations in the object. |
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| The choreography is determined based on its relation to the music or sounds that is danced to. |
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| Eventually, biologists demonstrated that the sounds were the vocalizations of fin whales. |
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| Each song consists of several sounds in a low register, varying in amplitude and frequency and typically lasting from 10 to 20 minutes. |
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| Humpback whales make other sounds to communicate, such as grunts, groans, snorts and barks. |
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| At the same time, the attractive sounds of humpback whales preparing to feed were broadcast from a boat headed towards the open ocean. |
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| The Weddell seal has perhaps the most elaborate vocal repertoire with separate sounds for airborne and underwater contexts. |
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| Males in some baleen species communicate via whale song, sequences of high pitched sounds. |
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| The guttural sounds produced in this form make a remarkable sound, similar to Tuvan throat singing. |
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| Tresholds are related to sounds and low land where the ice could spread out and therefore have less erosive force. |
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| They make grunting and chuckling sounds while eating and guttural calls during the breeding season. |
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| This membrane, when shaken, is able to produce various sounds and calls depending on whether the seal is underwater or on land. |
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| Some species, such as the humpback whale, communicate using melodic sounds, known as whale song. |
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| Alan Hovhaness' orchestra And God Created Great Whales including the recorded sounds of humpback and bowhead whales. |
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| This happens spontaneously on some words, but other words keep their original short o sounds. |
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| We all realise that for armour to attack a wall of guns sounds like another Balaclava, it is properly an infantry job. |
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| In his Great Bear Almanac, Gary Brown lists 11 different sounds bears produce in 9 different contexts. |
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| Red foxes have a wide vocal range, and produce different sounds spanning five octaves, which grade into each other. |
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| Bat echolocation is a perceptual system where ultrasonic sounds are emitted specifically to produce echoes. |
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| Bat calls are some of the most intense, airborne animal sounds, and can range in intensity from between 60 and 140 decibels. |
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| The animals made slightly different sounds when communicating with different individuals, especially one of the opposite sex. |
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| The sika deer is a highly vocal species, with over 10 individual sounds, ranging from soft whistles to loud screams. |
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| Howls used for calling pack mates to a kill are long, smooth sounds similar to the beginning of the cry of a horned owl. |
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| Some are notable for their ability to mimic sounds such as other birds' songs. |
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| These sounds are used for courtship, territorial defense and in distress, and include clicks, squeaks, barks and growls. |
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| A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds. |
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| It sounds paradoxical, but I am inclined to think that the weakness and insanity of the curate warned me, braced me, and kept me a sane man. |
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| Oysters are also harvested on a large scale from many of the bays and sounds. |
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| Manatees emit a wide range of sounds used in communication, especially between cows and their calves. |
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| The Lloyd's mirror effect results in low frequency propeller sounds not being discernible near the surface, where most accidents occur. |
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| The first thing to note is that S4 sounds dangerously close to conjunctivism. |
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| Music may have developed from rhythmic sounds produced by daily chores, for example, cracking open nuts with stones. |
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| By 1970 three key British bands had developed the characteristic sounds and styles which would help shape the subgenre. |
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| The movement or tenseness of the vocal folds can result in many sounds such as purring and screaming. |
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| Elephants communicate socially with a variety of sounds including snorting, screaming, trumpeting, roaring and rumbling. |
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| In English, the word vowel is commonly used to mean both vowel sounds and the written symbols that represent them. |
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| Silent calligraphy sounds that were like those of the sweet fluent water of a recondite stream. |
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| Transcription or recording lathes are used to make grooves on a surface for recording sounds. |
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| Flat Crag includes the Great Slab, a remarkable tilted sheet of rock which looks exactly as it sounds. |
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| Even at idle, the car sounds purposeful with a rortyness emanating from the short exhaust, hinting at what it's capable of. |
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| She listened hard while she took the horse there but its hooves plodding across the scrabbly hard clay ground drowned out all other sounds. |
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| This song is a semordnilap. It can be played forward and then sounds different when it is played backwards. |
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| The name Sharlene sounds like a chemical, she thought. Aunt Gwen has no taste. |
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| The birdlike female vendors speak only if spoken to, except when softly singsonging in a dialect that sounds like Navajo. |
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| Sometimes he stopped and listened for sounds of pursuit, but there were none, only the skitterings of rats. |
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| The new Gilmour-led Floyd sounds infinitely more 'Floydian' than Roger Waters' dirge-like solo albums. |
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| A couple of songlings made rattling sounds nearby, and he took out his pipes and tried to imitate them. He couldn't, not exactly. |
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| When people spoke to me, the sounds of their words were Tetris shapes, falling. All I had to do was put each one in its bright, satisfying place. |
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| I swear, this whole thing sounds like we're talking about some hillbilly trailer park trash. |
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| Curious, unsymphonic sounds bellow from his startled stomach, from his neglected innards. He blushes. |
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| The Ladies' was secluded at the end of a hallway where the sounds of feminine physiology would be safe from the ears of the village urolagniac. |
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| Good night, my Vera. Mind, I shall always call you Vera. It sounds so Russian and nice, and is much prettier than Vere. |
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| Nia was glad she'd let Rico bring her to the club as she vibed with the fusion of Latin sounds and American hip-hop. |
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| When one of the girls goes down into the basement, she is devoured by the POV accompanied by audio portions of werewolfish sounds. |
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| Most disconcerting of all is an atonal score that sounds like Satan clearing his throat. |
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| If this sounds a lot like the Abu Nazir backstory, well, it should. |
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| The synth sounds are very 70s, and Randy Brecker plays his trumpet through a wah-wah pedal in tremendous Miles fashion. |
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| It loves to rev and in doing so sounds every inch the sports-car, with a slight hissing from the Turbo's wastegate on downchanges. |
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| A SEE your GP to confirm a diagnosis but it sounds very much as if you are suffering with the skin complaint acne rosacea. |
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| Whatever it is sounds off mostly in winter and spring in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica and the waters off Western Australia. |
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| I had put Saffy to sleep and I know it sounds all actressy to say this, but I wasn't sure if I could climb back into her skin. |
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| It sounds a bit actressy but it was a very odd and emotional experience imagining what it's like to die. |
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| Rule out masses and any signs of acute abdomen, including rigidity and tympanic bowel sounds, she said. |
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| In a typical brain, Wernicke's Area acts as a giant warehouse for speech sounds and their links to meaningful vocabulary. |
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| Residents describe hearing noises like a jet engine, thumpings, great whooshing sounds, and on occasion continuous humming. |
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| It's total Star Wars wish fulfilment, made all the better by just how wonderful the game looks and sounds. |
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| The noise itself is a klaxon of repetitive, high-pitched xylophonic notes, and it's among the least jarring sounds in the iPhone's default set. |
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| The notion of Tindall in a pinny sounds as likely as Heather Mills in a yashmak. |
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| Equipped with Clarity Power technology, the C410 amplifies sounds that are frequently missed by those with a hearing loss. |
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