Crossword clues for fricative
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fricative \Fric"a*tive\, a. [See Frication.] (Phon.) Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged; -- said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, etc. -- n. A fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 197-206, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1854, literally "characterized by friction," from Modern Latin fricativus, from Latin fricat-, past participle stem of fricare "to rub" (see friction). As a noun, "a fricative consonant," from 1863.
Wiktionary
a. (context phonetics English) produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity. n. (context phonetics English) Any of several sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant. English /f/ and /s/ are fricatives.
WordNet
n. a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract [syn: fricative consonant, spirant]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "fricative".
By repeating this term over and over, perhaps in the same rhythm at which you squeeze a ball, you can reduce it to an empty series of phonemes, just formants and fricatives, trochaically stressed, signifying zip.
Also, there are some glottal stops, fricatives, and labials that do not register properly.
The word took forever to slide back and forth from postdental through labial stop and back to palatal fricative, beside the sounds that danced through her brain now.