Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stop consonant pronounced with the breath drawn in.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In phonology, produced by implosion: as, implosive stops.
- noun A sound formed by implosion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Phon.) Formed by implosion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Formed by
implosion . - noun phonetics An implosive
sound ; animplodent .
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Examples
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Frederik Kortlandt expanded further on this by infusing it with the Glottalic Theory according to which PIE's ejectives became "implosive" in all dialects save Proto-Anatolian and Proto-Tocharian.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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Frederik Kortlandt expanded further on this by infusing it with the Glottalic Theory according to which PIE's ejectives became "implosive" in all dialects save Proto-Anatolian and Proto-Tocharian.
Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 1 2008
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DNA and other large biological molecules seem to use another mechanism similar to the so-called Khohlov-implosion of macromolecules, a kind of implosive diminishing of the size of the dissolved molecule where its hydrodynamic radius diminishes by a factor of 1000 or more.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Because I show the signs of an "implosive" meltdown, in other words crying and hitting my head and sometimes screaming if it's bad, but they are rarely as a result of overstimulation but anger / losing my temper or of someone is messing on my computer when they didn't ask or sometimes when facing a phobia, so are they just tantrums or actual "meltdowns"?
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"This kind of implosive seismicity is rare anywhere on Earth," said study author Robert Sohn,
Signs of the Times 2009
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Patrice Evra has been warned to expect a hostile reception when Manchester United play Marseille on Wednesday as he returns to France for his first match in his own country since his part in the nation's implosive World Cup campaign.
Patrice Evra set for stormy Champions League reception at Marseille 2011
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However, they also worked very closely with Controlled Demolition Inc – an organization with a long history of managing large implosive flattening of manmade objects no longer wanted.
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Few things can crush a team's spirit or sink it's won-loss record like an implosive bullpen.
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He struck out Jason Michaels to start the inning, a positive sign that Storen, as he promised, had instantly moved past his implosive performance against the Phillies.
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Back then, the Pop Group were almost too much to take in: pretentious, arrogant, noisy, chaotic, violent to the point of implosive.
The Pop Group: still blazing a trail that makes rock look conservative 2010
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