What's the difference between dowel and vowel?

Dowel


Definition:

  • (n.) A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
  • (n.) A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it.
  • (v. t.) To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tooth fracture on failure occurred in seven out of ten Flexi-post-retained cores, while only three out of ten of the Para-post-retained cores and none of the Dentatus dowel-retained cores presented this unrepairable type of failure.
  • (2) Blocks of trials were made to the small dowel and to the large dowel.
  • (3) These modifications include the intraoperative threading of the standard cylindrical graft dowel (either autologous or heterologous) and the development of two new instruments designed to insert the graft into the intervertebral space.
  • (4) This suggested the most effective surgical treatment: Vetral clearance of disks, removal of prominences, and fusion of the three levels through the use of four bone dowels.
  • (5) Forty cast gold dowels and cores were made for four groups of dowel channels that had, respectively, 1 mm, 2 mm, 3 mm, and 1 mm with a 60-degree bevel (collar) of the remaining buccal dentin at the entrance of the canal.
  • (6) A total of 140 dowel samples were cast in Rexillium III and were divided into seven groups.
  • (7) In the past, because it has often been ignored that the bonding at the cement-dentin interface is weaker than that between the metal and cement, the true impact of surface configuration and cement thickness on the retention of dowels has never really been observed.
  • (8) The history of the nonlocking type of intracoronal semiprecision rest has been traced from its origins with Neurohr in 1930, up to its present use as the Thompson dowel rest.
  • (9) Coping designs for attachment overdentures must provide retention, resistance to rotation, and bulk when joined with the dowel and attachment, without negating the advantage of the reduced crown-root ratio.
  • (10) In blocked and control trials, the wrist moved with a single acceleration to the target dowel.
  • (11) The effect of cement type was significant only with tapered dowels.
  • (12) A silver plated die with a double dowelling technique is used.
  • (13) Arthrodesis that maintains normal contours of the foot, including its length and height, can be accomplished by the dowel technique described in this article.
  • (14) The margin of the crown and the dowel construction therefore were not at the same level.
  • (15) He backed those words with action, handing the 17-year-old Tom Davies and the 18-year-old Kieran Dowell full debuts in midfield and giving the under‑21s captain Jonjoe Kenny his first senior outing from the bench.
  • (16) 12 mm bone dowels are then driven into the holes, immediately stabilizing the segment.
  • (17) Immediate preparation of the dowel spaces had no effect on the apical seal.
  • (18) Targets were three-dimensional translucent dowels placed concentrically at 30 cm from the subject.
  • (19) The study also includes a comparison of root-resected teeth restored with root screws and composite cores versus those which had been restored with cast gold dowels, showing that both types of reconstruction had the same durability concerning the risk of root fractures or loss of retention.
  • (20) The use of paper matches is a simple and effective method for holding the dowel pin in the proper relation while the die stone portion of the cast is being poured.

Vowel


Definition:

  • (n.) A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a consonant in that the latter, whether made with or without vocality, derives its character in every case from some kind of obstructive action by the mouth organs. Also, a letter or character which represents such a sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 5, 146-149.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel; vocal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The obtained results are used to study the relation between the acoustic characteristics of these vowels and the corresponding articulatory dimensions.
  • (2) The current study explored the temporal course of the perception of vowel duration.
  • (3) In addition, they were tested with dichotic listening for correct reports of consonant-vowel syllables.
  • (4) Test items in each of the 4 groups therefore contained different amounts of information regarding the nature of the following vowel, due to coarticulatory influences of the vowel on the preceding consonants.
  • (5) Coarticulatory effects of the vowel on the aperiodic portion were found to (1) occur early in the aperiodic portion, (2) vary with consonant and vowel, and (3) vary with vowel feature.
  • (6) As for vowel formant, missing anterior teeth and missing posterior teeth presented more such differences for formant i and formants i and e, respectively.
  • (7) Vowel identification was best when at least two kinds of cues were available.
  • (8) Three male and 2 female subjects produced six repetitions of 12 utterances that were initiated and terminated by vowels and consonants of differing phonetic features.
  • (9) The perception of voicing in final velar stop consonants was investigated by systematically varying vowel duration, change in offset frequency of the final first formant (F1) transition, and rate of frequency change in the final F1 transition for several vowel contexts.
  • (10) These results suggest that Japanese monkeys process formant and pure-tone frequency increments differentially and that the same mechanisms mediate formant frequency discrimination in single-formant and vowel-like complexes.
  • (11) The major findings were as follows: (1) no significant difference was found in consonant identification scores between aperiodic, aperiodic + vocalic transition, and vocalic transition segments in CV syllables compared to those in VC syllables; (2) consonant identifications from vocalic transition + vowel segments in VC syllables were significantly greater than those from vocalic transition + vowel segments in CV syllables; (3) no significant difference was found in vowel identification scores between aperiodic + vocalic transition, vocalic transition + vowel, and vocalic transition segments in CV syllables compared to those in VC syllables; and (4) vowel identifications from aperiodic segments were significantly greater in CV syllables than in VC syllables.
  • (12) Comparisons between normalized spectral energy within a selected high frequency range revealed that energy within this frequency range for vowels produced by TE speakers was significantly higher than that produced by normal speakers.
  • (13) The amount of variability found in the labeling of speech contrasts may be dependent on cue salience, which will be determined by the speech pattern complexity of the stimuli and by the vowel environment.
  • (14) Acoustic information about the place of articulation of a prevocalic nasal consonant is distributed over two distinct signal portions, the nasal murmur and the onset of the following vowel.
  • (15) The shorter latency N2 was found for the separating features of vowels or intensities but not for consonants.
  • (16) After learning to categorize syllables consisting of [d], [b], or [g] followed by four different vowels, quail correctly categorized syllables in which the same consonants preceded eight novel vowels.
  • (17) The ability of listeners to identify 10 vowels under two conditions was investigated.
  • (18) In this article, acoustic analyses are reported which show that the spectral properties of stuttered vowels are similar to the following fluent vowel, so it would appear that the stutterers are articulating the vowel appropriately.
  • (19) The perceived goodness of i parallel vowels declined systematically as stimuli were further removed from the prototypic i parallel vowel.
  • (20) All subjects received 60 monaural and dichotic consonant-vowel (CV) nonsense syllables presented at equal loudness levels using the most comfortable level (MCL) as the loudness criteria.