inglide

plural inglides

1. human sciencesA brief transitional sound that precedes the main vowel in a diphthong or syllable, typically a short vowel-like segment at the onset of a nucleus.

   Under certain conditions of stress, my vowels are lengthened or given an inglide.

   1956, Studies in American English, volumes 1-3, University of Texas Press, page 15

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   For example, he always uses the -y, -w adjuncts as markers for upglides and -h as a symbol for an inglide.

   1999 June 15, David L. Cooper, Linguistic Attractors: The Cognitive Dynamics of Language Acquisition and Change, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 90

   Got-caught distinction: The /ɔ/ vowel sound of words like talk, law, cross and coffee and the often homophonous /ɔr/ in core and more are tensed and usually raised more than in General American, varying on a scale from [ɔ] to [ʊ], while typically accompanied by an inglide that produces variants like [oə] or [ʊə].

   2022 June 21, David Friddle, Sing Romantic Music Romantically: Nineteenth-Century Choral Performance Practices, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, page 130

present singular third person inglides · participle present ingliding · participle past inglided · past inglided

1. intransitiveobsoletepoeticTo glide softly or serenely into or upon something.

   What though no bane inglide, Full waft each vein her tide, Each bone remain thy pride?

   1764, James Elphinston, A COLLECTION OF POEMS, From the best AUTHORS: Adapted to every age, but peculiarly designed to form the Tast of Youth., London: Printed by James Bettenham, page 233

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   Have ye not lately op'd your pearly portals wide, As a sainted poet's soul did noislessly inglide?

   1864, Mrs. W. J. Arnold, editor, The Poets and Poetry of Minnesota., Chicago: Printed by S. P. Rounds, page 65

   Synonyms: enter