Associations to the word «Diaphone»

Wiktionary

DIAPHONE, noun. A kind of organ pipe.
DIAPHONE, noun. A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.
DIAPHONE, noun. (linguistics) A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme.
DIAPHONE, noun. All the dialectal variants of a phoneme, considered as a whole.

Dictionary definition

DIAPHONE, noun. A foghorn that makes a signal consisting of two tones.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats