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Affricate

Definition:

An affricate is a consonant sound that starts as a plosive (like a stop) and releases as a fricative (like a continuous sound).

Senses:

1. (Phonetics) A sound made by combining a plosive and a fricative consonant, such as /ch/ in "church" or /j/ in "job".
2. (Linguistics) A speech sound produced by briefly stopping the airflow and then releasing it with a slow release.
3. (Music) A term used to describe a musical note with a short, staccato sound.

Examples:

Example 1 (Phonetics):

The word "church" contains the affricate sound /ch/ at the beginning.

Sample sentence: I love the way the affricate /ch/ sounds in words like "chocolate" and "cheese".

Example 2 (Linguistics):

Some languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, use affricates extensively in their phonetic systems.

Sample sentence: In Mandarin, the affricate "zh" in words like "zhōngguó" (China) and "zhù" (to live) is always accompanied by a distinct stop-release pattern.

Example 3 (Music):

In sheet music, an affricate notation symbol denotes a short and detached musical note.

Sample sentence: The pianist's fingers lightly touched the keys to produce the affricate notes in the melodic piece.

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