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pronounce | American Dictionary

pronounce
verb[ T ]
us/prəˈnɑʊns/

pronounceverb[T] (MAKE SOUND)

English
to say a word or a letter in a particular way or in a correct way:
Around here, "aunt" is not pronounced the same as "ant."
How do you pronounce your last name?

pronounceverb[T] (TO STATE)

to state something officially or formally:
Dewey was mistakenly pronounced the winner of the election.

Examples of pronounce

pronounce
Since the second-order contribution grows with distance from the leading edge, these effects may be quite pronounced near the trailing edge of the plate.
The uvular fricatives are realised as postvelar or velar fricatives, and the uvular /q/ is pronounced as a glottal stop.
Death of cercariae was pronounced when they failed to respond to mechanical stimulation with a fine needle.
In contrast, morpheme identification requires that the meanings of two or more morphemes that are identically pronounced can be distinguished based on meanings.
In (10) and (11) (see next section), pronounced positions of the derivational chains are indicated by italicization.
A female experimenter gave the verbal instructions live, pronouncing them with a normal speed.
Speakers were reminded that the n is not normally pronounced in such words.
Nowhere, however, did he actually comment upon their legality or illegality, let alone pronouncing a verdict on the very faith of the emperor.
The relationship between political change and change in steel prices is now sharply pronounced.
Referring to the guidelines when pronouncing death was positively associated with postintervention self-assessed competency in writing the note p .049!.
If the higher copy is pronounced, overt phrasal movement results.
The declines are particularly pronounced, however, for partisans.
Estimates suggest that this effect was pronounced in early experiments where a piece of cut-off waveguide was used for wave reflection.
Perception of the helpfulness of the pocket card guidelines had a significant positive association with post-intervention competency in the clinical examination for pronouncing death p .038!.
Cations were found to reduce the equilibrium distance, the effect being more pronounced for divalent than for monovalent ions.
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