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460 words match “HONE”

DISHONESTLY adv.
In a dishonest manner.
DISHONESTY n. 4 definitions
Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. [Obs.] "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2.
ECPHONEMA n.
A breaking out with some interjectional particle.
ECPHONEME n.
A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation. G. Brown.
ECPHONESIS n.
An animated or passionate exclamation. The feelings by the ecphonesis are very various. Gibbs.
ELECTROPHONE n.
An instrument for producing sound by means of electric currents.
EPIPHONEMA n.
An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse.
EPIPHONEME n.
Epiphonema. [R.]
GRAMOPHONE n.
An instrument for recording, preserving, and reproducing sounds, the record being a tracing of a phonautograph etched in some solid material. Reproduction is accomplished by means of a system attached to an elastic diaphragm.
GRAPHOPHONE n.
A kind of photograph.
HOMOPHONE n. 2 definitions
A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another. Gliddon.
KALEIDOPHON; KALEIDOPHONE n.
An instrument invented by Professor Wheatstone, consisting of a reflecting knob at the end of a vibrating rod or thin plate, for making visible, in the motion of a point of light reflected from the knob, the paths or curves corresponding with the musical notes produced by the vibrations.
KINETOPHONE n.
A machine combining a kinetoscope and a phonograph synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying sounds.
MAHONE n.
A large Turkish ship. Crabb.
MEGAPHONE n.
A device to magnify sound, or direct it in a given direction in a greater volume, as a very large funnel used as an ear trumpet or as a speaking trumpet.
METALLOPHONE n. 2 definitions
An instrument like the xylophone, but having metallic instead of wooden bars.
MICROPHONE n.
An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.
OENANTHONE n.
The ketone of oenanthic acid.
OSTEOPHONE n.
An instrument for transmission of auditory vibrations through the bones of the head, so as to be appreciated as sounds by persons deaf from causes other than those affecting the nervous apparatus of hearing.
PHONE n.
Colloq. for Telephone.
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