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onglide

onglide noun: a phase while the articulators are moving into position to produce a new speech sound.

Noun

onglide (plural onglides)

  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

onglide (third-person singular simple present onglides, present participle ongliding, simple past and past participle onglided)

  1. To produce this sound.

onglide meaning in Tamil

onglide in Tamil

மூன்உடன்படுத்தி

Antonyms of onglide

Forms of onglide

Noun
pluralonglides
alternative formon-glide
Verb
third-person singular presentonglides
present participleongliding
past participleonglided
pastonglided

Origin of onglide

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

Questions about onglide

What does onglide mean?
Onglide means a phase while the articulators are moving into position to produce a new speech sound.
What is onglide in Tamil?
Onglide in Tamil is மூன்உடன்படுத்தி. See Onglide meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is onglide?
Onglide can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of onglide?
The plural of onglide is onglides.

Words near onglide in the dictionary

  1. ongezellig
  2. Ongian
  3. onglaze
  4. onglet
  5. onglets
  6. onglide
  7. onglided
  8. onglides
  9. ongliding
  10. Ongnam
  11. ongo

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: onglide (page history and authors); onglide (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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