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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The vowel sound /ɛ/, as in the words "pet" and "sled". (The presence of a short vowel is sometimes signaled in spelling by the doubling of a consonant after it, such as in betting as contrasted with meting.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: long e
History
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