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
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.