English Explanatory Dictionary

onglide

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A phase while the articulators are moving into position to produce a new speech sound.
  2. The first, weaker part of a complex vowel, such as a diphthong, as the /j/ sound of the /juː/ in English few.
verb
  1. To produce this sound.

Word forms

onglide onglides on-glide ongliding onglided

Etymology

From on- + glide. Compare Middle English ongliden (“to glide over”).

Antonyms

offglide
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