phonetist (fonetist)

[ Different phonetists of that time giving different lists. Trans. Amer. Philol. A ., XVI. 66. phonetic. phone2 (fon), п. telephone: generally applied to the receiver, but sometimes to the whole apparatus. Sci . Amer . , N. S., July 19, 1884, p. 43. [Colloq.] phone 2 (fon), v.; pret. and pp. phoned , ppr. phon- ing . [Abbr. of telephone , v .] To telephone. [Colloq.] phone i do scope (fō-nī dō-skop), п . [ φωνή , sound, + εἶδος , form, + σκοπεῖν, view.] An in- strument for observing the color-figures of li- quid films under the action of sonorous vibra- tions. E. H. Knight. The author of the Ormulum was a phonetist , and em the quality but the quantities of vowels and consonants. Encyc. Brit., VIII. 396. phonetization (fō"ne-ti-zāʻshon), n. [ ing sound by phonetic signs. Webster's Dict.; Imp. Dict. [Rare.] phonetize (fo'ne-tīz), v. t.; pret. and pp. pho netized, ppr. phonetizing. [ To represent phonetically. [Rare.] I find a goodly number of Yankee isms in him [Spenser], such as idee (not as a rhyme); but the oddest is his twice spelling dew deow, which is just as one would spell it who wished to phonetize its sound in rural New England phonic (fon'ik), a. [= F. phonique = Sp. fónico = It. fonico, Lowell, Among my Books, II. 195.