Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An auditory ossicle; one of the phonophori.
- noun An apparatus by means of which telephonic communication may be maintained over a telegraph-line without interfering with its use in the ordinary way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The phonophore having been connected with the railway line, a telegraph message to this effect was sent to headquarters.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke
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Unfortunately, the 酋 in this case is not pronounced QIU2, but JIU3 (in Middle Sinitic [circa 600 AD]), QIU2 (just the phonophore [without the three-drops-water] would have been pronounced something like DZUW but with the three-drops-water added as TSUW ').
Language Log 2009
qroqqa commented on the word phonophore
The sound-bearing element (shēngpángzì) of a Chinese character. Details here.
August 6, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word phonophore
Now I could swear I wrote that word with tone numbers - thus sheng 1 pang 2 zi 4 but joinedupical - so is this site now automagically converting pinyin display?
August 6, 2009
john commented on the word phonophore
Oh man, I'm sorry, I saw that and thought it was a bug in my handling of unicode characters. Wasn't automagical, was manually intrusive :-(
From now on I'll refrain from second-guess copyedits in languages and notations I don't know.
August 7, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word phonophore
Aha. I thought it must have been you, because the programming of it automatically would be disproportionately difficult to the probability of doing it in the wrong circumstances. It would be a useful feature, but not worth doing.
August 7, 2009
reesetee commented on the word phonophore
Joinedupical should join the pantheon of madeupical words. :-D
August 7, 2009