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Vow
A vow (Lat. votum, vow, promise; see vote) is a transaction between a person and his/her/its deity whereby the former undertakes in the future to render some service or gift or devotes something valuable now and here to his use. The vow is a kind of oath, with the deity being both the witness and ..
VOW
VOW may mean: VowVow (Garbage song)Village on Wheels. Exclusive tourist trains in India.(esp.to cater to the budget tourists, and hence the name)Virtual Office Website ..
Vowchurch
Vowchurch is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, situated in the Golden Valley, on the River Dore. The village is about 10 miles west of Hereford. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 163. ..
Vowel
Manners of articulation Obstruent Click Plosive Ejective Implosive Affricate Fricative Sibilant Sonorant Nasal Flaps/Tap Trill Approximant Liquid Vowel Semivowel Lateral This page contains phonetic information in IPA, which may not display correctly in some brow..
Vowel-Consonant synthesis
Vowel-Consonant synthesis is a type of hybrid digital-analogue synthesis employed by the early Casiotone keyboards. It employs two digital waveforms, which are mixed and filtered by a static lowpass filter, with different filter positions selected for user according to presets. The filters are model..
Vowel backness
In phonetics, vowel backness is the position of the tongue relative to the back of the mouth in a vowel sound. The second formant of a vowel (F2) usually corresponds to vowel backness, with a lower F2 corresponding to a back vowel and a higher F2 corresponding to a front vowel. The International Ph..
Vowel coalescence
Vowel coalescence is a phonological process in which two consecutive vowels fuse into one - often long - vowel. In typical cases, the resulted vowel does not coincide with any of the original vowels (e.g. /ai/-->[e:] ). ..
Vowel dimension
A vowel dimension is an aspect of a vowel's pronunciation, involving a phonological or phonetic feature which is utilised in a language. The basic vowel dimensions are generally viewed as being frontness and height; these dimensions are manifested in most of the world's languages. (Some languages, ..
Vowel harmony
Vowel harmony (also metaphony) is a type of long-distance assimilatory phonological process involving vowels. Contents 1 Explanation2 Features of vowel harmony3 Vowel harmony & umlaut terminology4 Vowel harmony, archiphonemes, and underspecification5 Examples in selected..
Vowel height
In phonetics and phonology, vowel height is a feature that shows the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth in a vowel sound. The first formant of a vowel (F1) usually corresponds to vowel height, with a higher F1 corresponding to a lower vowel height and a lower F1 corres..
Vowel length
In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived duration of a vowel sound. Often the chroneme, or the "longness", acts like a consonant, and may etymologically be one such as in Australian English. While not distinctive in most dialects of English, vowel length is an important phonemic factor in many ..
Vowel line
During the 2001-02 NHL season the Nashville Predators head coach Barry Trotz discovered that he has a potent combination when playing Martin Erat on left wing, Vladimir Orszagh on right wing, and Denis Arkhipov at center. He almost always kept them together. The three European players complemented ..
Vowel shift
A vowel shift is a systematic change in the pronunciation of the vowel sounds of a language. The best-known example in the English language is the Great Vowel Shift, which began in the 15th century. Other examples of ongoing vowel shifts are the Southern Vowel Shift in the southern United States, ..
Vowel stems
Vowel stems, in Indo-European linguistics, are the stems of nouns or verbs that are thematic. This means that the stems of these words end in a theme vowel that appears in, or at least influences, the inflections in the paradigms of these words. In Latin, nouns of the first, second, fourth, and ..
Vowel triangle
In phonetics, the vowel triangle is an imaginary triangle in the mouth, used to represent graphically the position of the tongue while pronouncing certain vowels. The vowel triangle is a V-shaped scalene triangle: it can be depicted as being located inside the mouth of a head which faces towards..
Vowlan
VoWLAN (Voice over Wireless LAN) is the use of a wireless broadband network for the purpose of vocal conversation. In other words, it's just like VOIP but over a Wi-Fi network. VoWLAN can be conducted over any internet accessible device, including a laptop, PDA or the new VoWLAN units which look an..
VOWR (AM)
VOWR (Voice of Wesley United Church Radio) is a Canadian radio station, which airs religious programming, as well as oldies music, in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. It broadcasts at 800KHz on the AM band. The station first broadcasted on July 24, 1924. It is the first radio station in Can..
Vow (Garbage song)
"Vow" was the debut single from Garbage. It was released in Spring 1995 ahead of their debut album Garbage. Contents 1 Song profile2 Single release3 Music video4 Remixes5 Live performances6 \"Vow\" quote, unquote7 Comprehensive charts8 External links Song..
Vow of Justice (comic)
Vow of Justice was the second story arc in the Star Wars comic series. It was included in the last few pages of the last three issues of the [[Star Wars: Prelude to Rebellion|Prelude to Rebellion]] arc. Summary Shortly after returning to Cerea as a newly knighted Jedi, Ki-Adi-Mundi recalls being ..
Vow of obedience
The Vow of Obedience is one of the three vows that monks and nuns must take to enter an order, such as in the Benedictine order, in accord with the rule of Saint Benedictine. It is required because they are voluntarily undertaking to fulfill the counsels of perfection. The obedience is that gene..
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