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Definition

of or relating to speech sounds

The form phonetics may reference the scientific study of speech sounds.

Can you write the phonetic spelling of his name?

phonetic = speech sound

(In this case, referring to a spelling that uses a character or code for each sound in a language. For example the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), represents both "ue" in blue and "oo" in food as "u".)

phonetic transcription
phonetic analysis
"Will ye-oo py me f'them?"
[Here, with apologies, this desperate attempt to represent her dialect without a phonetic alphabet must be abandoned as unintelligible outside London.]
George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion

phonetic = speech sound

He spelled out Cacciato's name phonetically, repeated it, his voice calm.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
These names don't have much in common, phonetically or aesthetically, with the low-education names.
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner -- Freakonomics
That involves typing in a phonetic version of each Chinese word and having it converted to the Chinese character, a very laborious process.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
The paper was thin, covered in scrawled runes, but Magnus had taped a printout of the words, spelled out phonetically, over the incantation itself.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
Phonetic spelling had again misled me.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula
I still have the piece of paper where I wrote down, phonetically, how to say it.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky
Underneath the symbol, I recognized a row of phonetic hieroglyphs: "Z—I—A," I read.
Rick Riordan -- The Throne of Fire
Ginnarr inscribed this word on a slip of parchment, taking care to write the phonetics so Max would not mispronounce the Old Norse.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
Unlike Tibetan, to which it is closely related, Sherpa is not a written language, so Westerners are forced to resort to phonetic renderings.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
Here is the phonetic pronunciation.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
He looked around in the store for the cheapest dictionary that contained the phonetic alphabet.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
Rather, our characters are phonetic in nature.
Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
I'll say them phonetically.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
"Phonetics," said Lisa.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
I had made the first total emotional commitment of my life when I read how the phonetic experts had given these tongueless people a language, newspapers, institutions.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
Once, in his wife's presence, Kennedy uses a version of the military's phonetic alphabet to lash out at a newspaper columnist, referring to him as a "Charlie-Uncle-Nan-Tare."
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy

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