Crossword-Solution: PHONEMES
We have 3 clues for the answer “PHONEMES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Small sets of speech sounds | 1 answer |
| Speech units | 1 answer |
| Units of speech | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PHONEMES (2)
They become suspicious, seclusive, introspective, spend sleepless nights, until suddenly, in the stillness of night, they perceive isolated phonemes.
There were voices from loudspeakers--imperious and hopeless, angry and feeble, impassioned and monotonous, arrogant and anguished--in a synthetic language made up of odd phonemes long since discarded from a thousand other languages.
Quotes with PHONEMES (2)
Words tend to last a big longer than things, but eventually they fade too, along with the pictures they once evoked. Entire categories of objects disappear - flowerpots, for example, or cigarette filters, or rubber bands - and for a time you will be able to recognize those words, even if you cannot recall what they mean. But then, little by little, the words become only sounds, a random collection of glottals and fricatives, a storm of whirling phonemes, and finally the whole…
A whole planet of worlds, and not one of them — not one — has a soul. They wander through their lives separate and alone, unable even to communicate except through grunts and tokens: as if the essence of a sunset or a supernova could ever be contained in some string of phonemes, a few linear scratches of black on white. They've never known communion, can aspire to nothing but dissolution. The paradox of their biology is astonishing, yes; but the scale of their loneliness, the…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1978–2006).