Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a phonetic manner; as regards the sound and not the spelling of words.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a phonetic manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In the way it sounds, particularly: written to describe the sound rather than the dictionary spelling.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb by phonetics
Etymologies
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Examples
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For example, when a person says his or her name, listen carefully to the pronunciation and write down the name phonetically to help you recall the name later.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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•As soon as possible, write down the name phonetically so you remember the pronunciation later.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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•As soon as possible, write down the name phonetically so you remember the pronunciation later.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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For example, when a person says his or her name, listen carefully to the pronunciation and write down the name phonetically to help you recall the name later.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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For example, when a person says his or her name, listen carefully to the pronunciation and write down the name phonetically to help you recall the name later.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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•As soon as possible, write down the name phonetically so you remember the pronunciation later.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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She led us through the word phonetically: Ch-trv-tek.
The Adults Alison Espach 2011
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She led us through the word phonetically: Ch-trv-tek.
The Adults Alison Espach 2011
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What van Helmont did was to change the meaning to kinds of air other than the air we breathe; and his stroke of genius was to spell the Greek word phonetically, i.e., as he and other southern Dutch-speakers would have spelled it, if, knowing no Greek, they had heard it, and had had to write it down in Dutch.
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These thugs ran a violent insurgent operation back home under the the acronym of FRAPH — ostensibly standing for The Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti but ironically translating phonetically into the French word for “hit” or “to whip”.
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