Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A kind of organ pipe.
- n. A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.
- n. linguistics A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme.
- n. All the dialectal variants of a phoneme, considered as a whole.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a foghorn that makes a signal consisting of two tones
Etymologies
- Dia(lect) + phone (Wiktionary)
Examples
““Delia Hopkins,” by another name, could be diaphone silk, akin polished, oedipal knish.”
“Delia Hopkins," by another name, could be diaphone silk, akin polished, oedipal knish.”
“The 32-foot open diaphone is located behind the picture screen.”
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments
“Like the lighthouse keeper who could not sleep when the diaphone did not wrneeee-hrnawwww for five seconds of each and every minute, Jerry”
“The DRLPS has received a matching fund grant to rehabilitate the DeTour Reef Light's original diaphone foghorn system, to its 1931 configuration.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘diaphone’.
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phrontistery - d
from phrontistery.info
dysteleology, dyslogistic, dystectic, dysphoria, dysphonia, dystopia, dysphemism, dystocia, dyslogia, dysaesthesia, dyschromatopic, dysbulia and 624 more...
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Phones, But Not Telephones!
These are musical instruments or mythological figures instead!
saxophone, heckelphone, sarrusophone, mellophone, sousaphone, lamellophone, metallophone, xylophone, vibraphone, crystallophone, pyrophone, idiophone and 53 more...
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Never For Sale On Craigslist
List of items never for sale on craigslist.
Should you find one of these for sale, let us know. We'll scare you up a coupon for a free day at a gym or something.vectis, soupir, porcupine-machine, electric pig, poke-bonnet, shawm, staddle stone, beating-engine, hicon, figurehead, low-warp loom, radevore and 516 more...
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The Other Side of Silence
A sound garden.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. --Walt Whitmantin cry, chark, gride, scroop, crepitation, stridulation, swazzle, death-ruckle, cronk, rumble, borborygmus, crowling and 165 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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