Čo znamená consonant v angličtine a aká je definícia consonant?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť consonant výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

consonant Význam & definícia

0 one of the speech sounds or letters of the alphabet that is not a vowel. Consonants are pronounced by stopping the air from flowing easily through the mouth, especially by closing the lips or touching the teeth with the tongue.
1 a speech sound produced by human beings when the breath that flows out through the mouth is blocked by the teeth, tongue, or lips
- Except for the vowels in English – a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y – all the letters are consonants.

Don't you hate the way she speaks, pronouncing each single consonant so precisely.
She's got some unpronounceable name that seems to be all consonants.
Double consonants followed by a vowel must be pronounced really double, as in Italian.
Several initial consonants of words and syllables are commonly interchanged, even by the same speaker if he uses a word more than once during a conversation.
The speaker, therefore, will exercise the greatest care in pronouncing consonants distinctly.
Under what condition is a consonant never doubled at the end of a word?
Moreover, consonant substitutions preserved more articulatory-phonetic features in nonword repetition than in serial recall.
If the final syllable does not have a long vowel or end in two or more consonants, the initial syllable is stressed.