What's the difference between explodent and plosive?
Explodent
Definition:
(n.) An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive.
(n.) See Explosive, n., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Louis CK is exploding a few myths about one of pop culture's most hallowed spaces, the sitcom writers' room.
(2) You can also blast individual eyeballs from their sockets, or – if you're particularly skilful – make their testicles explode like a pair of microwaved eggs.
(3) It exploded when leading daily El Pais published copies of account ledgers purportedly showing irregular payments to top party members including Rajoy, its leader since 2004.
(4) Roddy was told he wouldn't live beyond 30 and used to drive everywhere at full pelt while smoking exploding cigarettes.
(5) The smaller spheres and some of the cylinders exploded and fragments and even whole cylinders weighing around 30 tons, were scattered over distances ranging from a few to up to 1200 m.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Device explodes in New Jersey as robot attempts to disarm He said the chicken store had faced complaints and problems in 2012, when the city council and police ruled that it should close at 10pm.
(7) I remember seeing these exploding glass panels of blood, and thinking, 'Well, he's a relief.'"
(8) If Egypt explodes, the explosion will be much bigger, too.
(9) Mohammed Hanif, the award winning novelist, also parodied General Zia and his inner circle in his novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes .
(10) Simmering resentment towards the US presence on Okinawa exploded into anger in 1995 after three servicemen abducted and raped a 12-year-old girl , a crime that prompted lengthy negotiations on reducing the country's military footprint.
(11) Three minutes later the Arena Pernambuco exploded into a riot of noise and colour as Guardado made the game safe, calmly slotting home from six yards after Herrera’s pass had missed out Hernández.
(12) Visiting journalists were briefed by security officers on the latest attacks: five IEDs detonated or exploded in 48 hours; a car bomb discovered and detonated; and "a rash" of grenade attacks.
(13) So while Blackburn might have been surprised when City exploded into life just before the hour to take control with two excellent goals in two minutes, they could have no real complaints.
(14) It exploded in mid-air, sparking speculation it was downed accidentally by Ukranian military on exercises in Crimea.
(15) Such was its challenge that, when it was found in the library of a school run by the Inner London Education Authority in 1986, the fuss exploded and the book was subsequently cited as one of the spurs to the controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Act of 1988.
(16) If a battery heats up beyond 80C you hit what is called thermal runaway, where the components start to decompose, and that’s when it can explode.” The specific cause of Samsung’s issues with exploding batteries is unknown, the company just cites “ a battery cell issue ”.
(17) After six minutes of reconnaissance, it exploded, briefly.
(18) He was acutely aware that his country would explode without the safety valve of democracy.
(19) Forest ecologists say it is no coincidence the Rim fire exploded through areas which had seen few or no blazes in almost a century – an unnatural absence since California's mountain flora evolved to burn .
(20) He said he had made the errors of judgment because his mind was on trying to save his marriage from "exploding".
Plosive
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicate that the increased nasal resistance resulting from occlusion of one nostril does not appreciably affect pressure and airflow associated with plosive consonant production in patients with velopharyngeal inadequacy.
(2) The velar mechanism was perturbed by having subjects voluntarily lower the soft palate during a series of words involving plosive consonants.
(3) In addition, some qualitative differences in confusion patterns could be established: the perception of low-frequency information appears to be relatively important in compression limiting; the perception of plosiveness is less important.
(4) Our phonetic study of Bourouchaski shows that the homorganic plosives of this language cannot be distinguished by a specific difference in voice onset time (VOT).
(5) The subjects of tumour of the anterior part of the floor of the mouth had low overall scores, low scores for plosive and affricative sounds, and very low scores for sounds produced with the rear of the tongue.
(6) Sounds produced with the rear portion of the tongue were improved in 3 cases, and plosive and affricative sounds were remarkably improved in all cases.
(7) For normally hearing subjects shortening the silence duration of an intervocalic voiceless plosive induces a misperception of voicing.
(8) This study investigated the perception of voicing of an intervocalic plosive for a natural speech sample "aka" as a function of occlusive silence duration for normally hearing and hearing-impaired subjects.
(9) Other verbal characteristics including plosiveness were also important.
(10) Articulatory dysfunction was characterized as plosives tend to be misunderstood as nasals or affricates.
(11) In a second experiment the influence of silent intervals on the identification of plosives was analysed increasing the artificial silent interval in 10 ms steps from 0 ms to 120 ms in speech stimuli like schal thus producing stahl for the 120 ms silent interval.
(12) Voiced consonants, plosives, fricatives, nasals, and liquid-glides were significantly more intelligible when produced by TE talkers.
(13) Descriptive autority analyses of continuous texts in German have shown that word-final alveolar plosives are frequently assimilated to following labials and velars.
(14) The stimuli were obtained from the two naturally produced originals by changing the ratios and the length of voicing in the plosive through computer processing.
(15) In the 75 dB SPL recording, the levels of voiceless fricatives, nasals and plosives were significantly lower than in the 60 dB SPL recording.
(16) Articulation proficiency was compared in four phoneme categories: nasals, plosives, fricatives and affricates.
(17) The signals were six broadband noises whose spectral shapes were modeled after the spectra of unvoiced fricative and plosive consonants.
(18) the plosives and the short consonants disappear first; next follow the other consonants, whereas vowels remain intelligible at a 100 msec.
(19) Medium and long pauses, long duration, prologned closure (i.e., long duration plosives), and adventitious transitional sounds had a lesser negative effect.
(20) The results show that the identification of deleted initial voiceless plosives is greatly improved by the addition of noise.