Associations to the word «Diaphone»
Noun
Adverb
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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
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.