Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Pronounced or articulated with both lips, as the consonants b, p, m, and w.
- adj. Relating to both lips.
- n. A bilabial sound or consonant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Involving the two lips.
Wiktionary
- adj. phonetics Articulated with both lips.
- n. phonetics A speech sound articulated with both lips.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Linguistics) produced using both lips; -- said of a consonant. .
- n. (Linguistics) a consonant that is articulated using both lips, as p or b or w.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/
- adj. of or relating to or being a speech sound that is articulated using both lips
Examples
“Yes, it's formed by closing both lips -- 'bilabial' -- rather than using tongue and teeth.”
“Point is, if the model is accurate it's like describing how sounds are articulated phonetically, how the/b/sound is a voiced bilabial plosive.”
“Perhaps the voiced bilabial plosive suggests the last and energetic verb (I know the withheld verbs create suspense).”
“Yes, it makes Sean Kingston's Beautiful Girls look like Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, but Mohombi isn't about furrowing brows, he's about fun with a capital bilabial fricative.”
“In Arabic, there is no "p" sound (voiceless bilabial plosive), so it is often replaced with a "b" sound (voiced bilabial plosive).”
House Votes Overwhelmingly To Condemn MoveOn; Large Majority Of Dems Votes "Aye"
“Now, this is a matter of detail perhaps but worth noting since p has occasionally eroded to f in Etruscan, particularly next to tautosyllabic u, and this sort of lenition can only rationally happen with a bilabial phoneme, not a labiodental one.”
“As I've remarked before on my blog, Etruscan p consistently shows lenition to a bilabial fricative /ɸ/ whenever it neighbours the high rounded back vowel u.”
“If we only assess the problem from within the specialized bubble of the narrow Etruscan field, internal -u- before bilabial m can easily be explained away as a reduced form of original *-e-.”
“Consider the Etruscan use of letter phi, coding for the aspirate bilabial stop, which tends to mark many Greek loans: Φerse 'Perseus' and Φuipa 'Phoibe'.”
“Many languages have bilabial fricatives such as Irish, Andalusian and Japanese.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bilabial’.
-
Terms of Phonetics
Phonetic concepts that are fascinating or novel.
An open-ended list, so this can also include abstract or linguistic terms.tessaraphthong, samprasarana, great vowel shift, phonotactics, t-glottalization, hushing, bilabial, lexicostatistics, hachek, surd, ɲɟǃǃʎ, isogloss and 32 more...
-
bi-
two; twice; every two; lasting two
biathlon, biannual, bicentennial, biennial, bisexual, binoculars, bigamy, biscotti, bilabial, bicep, bicuspid, bicycle and 19 more...
-
Unbilby
billbergia, bibacious, bibliophile, bibble, bill, bibulous, bill medley and b..., babliaminy, bilbydactyl, bibliopole, billety, beilby's ball and 106 more...
-
exlotuseater's Words
autocthonous, anacoluthon, benthic, bactrian, caryatid, chiastic, dryad, dromedary, effulgent, elixir, fricative, fungible and 145 more...
-
word set 2
preemptively, crocodilian, gyrator, wallowing, sodbusters, electrification, manganese, swabbing, plummeted, silhouetting, careening, frothy and 101 more...
-
dann's words
just some nice words that i like.
beamish, snark, sundry, contrariwise, salsify, cephalopod, omphaloskepsis, grok, resistentialism, peristerophobia, aglet, ferrule and 125 more...
-
Not Quite As Awful As They Sound
masticate, absquatulate, adumbrate, afflatus, fetial, anile, bilabial, cineaste, smew, copse, piebald, testudinate and 156 more...
-
labio-
of or relating to the lips
-
Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
-
Isograms
Words with each letter repeated the same number of times. The pattern of repetition is tagged: 1212, 1221, 121122, 122121, 121233, 122133, 123123, 123132, 123213, 123231, 123312, 123321, 12123434, ...
deeded, sestettes, geggee, appeases, caucasus, isis, cancan, intestines, mesosome, palpal, valval, mama and 154 more...
-
Rocketeer's Words
defenestrate, shutterbug, antique, periscope, dogma, peculiar, eccentric, banana, apple, pear, cherry, photograph and 189 more...
-
Swishy Burbles
Words with a certain flowing, silly sound to them; I may as well have found them in a James Joyce novel.
podlec, shuckling, woofits, splenetic, wodges, dromedary, chickabiddy, doodsmak, plashoot, clawscrunt, dwergmal, wherrit and 159 more...
-
lucidityprevails's Words
lucidity, journalistic, truthiness, foolhardy, egotism, lesbian, orgasmic, activism, moonglow, voodoo, conquer, demolish and 534 more...
-
linguinteresting
linguisticly interesting
lexeme, periphrastic, snowclone, cornroll, irregardless, wholescale, slanguage, infixation, expletive, nonce, prosodic, reduplication and 26 more...
-
what we like to say
"... on the basis of this information, we can actually figure out how genes are organized in the genome, and we can do this simply by letting organisms do what they like to do, which is to mate...
phagocytosis, pinocytosis, invagination, cochlea, congential, aggrecans aggregate, map kinase kinase..., agglutinate, consanguineous, vasculogenesis, clitic, labile and 5 more...
-
rikker's Words
alveolar, velar, bilabial, uvular, interdental, glottal, plosive, palatal, alveopalatal, dental, labiodental, liquid and 4 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bilabial.
gruentrader (ragdacious) Nov 26, 2008