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voice
  1. Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character
  2. (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
  3. The tone or sound emitted by an object
  4. The faculty or power of utterance
  5. That which is communicated; message; meaning.
  6. Opinion or choice expressed; judgment
  7. (archaic) Command; precept.
  8. One who speaks; a speaker.
  9. (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
  10. (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
  11. (Internet) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel.
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  13. Examples:
    1. “I waved my arms in the air above my head and nearly lost my voice while trying to sing along.”
      “We will allow every voice to be heard without prejudice.”
      “Freeman has usurped Walter Cronkite as the voice of CBS News this week in a slightly uneven struggle, given that Cronkite is dead.”
vocalization
  1. The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
  2. Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
  3. The use of speech to express an idea
  4. (music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
  5. (orthography) The vowel diacritics in Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.
  6. (phonology) The change in pronunciation of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds as vowels. For example, the syllabic /l/ in words like people or the coda one in words like cold or coal are variably realized as a high back vowel or glide—[ʊ], [u], [ɤ] or [o]—in many dialects of English in the US, UK, and the Southern Hemisphere. For example, in African American Vernacular English, one common pronunciation of the words "people", "cold", and "coal" is [pʰipʊ], [kʰoɤd], or [kʰoɤ] respectively.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “I heard her vocalization of her deepest fears during the therapy session.”
      “The singer's vocalization captivated the audience with her powerful and emotional performance.”
      “The computer recorded the elapsed time between word presentation and vocalization.”
vocabulary
  1. A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
  2. The collection of words a person knows and uses.
  3. The stock of words used in a particular field.
  4. The words of a language collectively.
  5. A range of artistic or stylistic forms or techniques
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  7. Examples:
    1. “One of the few Russian words to have entered the vocabulary of other languages, dacha originally meant a parcel of land given by the tsar to his aristocratic servitors.”
      “Prior to entering, she studied concepts such as defining her business and its services, learning basic business vocabulary, and marketing and management.”
      “Something tells me this isn't the first time you've tried to woo a computer screen with such persuasive vocabulary.”
voicing
  1. (music) the final regulation of the pitch and tone of any sound-producing entity, especially of an organ or similar musical instrument
  2. (music) a particular arrangement of notes to form a chord.
  3. (phonetics) the articulatory process in which the vocal cords vibrate
  4. (phonetics) a classification of speech sounds that tend to be associated with vocal cord vibration
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  6. Examples:
    1. “No doubt the technical assessment is sound and benignly offered, but the mere voicing of it has a slight ring of presumptuousness.”
vocable
vocal
  1. (phonetics) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal
  2. (Roman Catholic Church) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.
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voicist
  1. One who discriminates against or judges people negatively based on how their voices sound.
  2. A voice actor.
voicer
  1. One who voices something.
  2. One who fits or regulates the pipes of an organ so as to produce the desired quality of sound.
vocality
  1. The quality or degree of being vocal.
  2. The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “But I think we've got to be careful here and not say that increased vocality means increased numerical strength.”
      “The study of popular music and vocality is always present in the investigative course of the group.”
      “From a stylistic point of view, Les Chantres du Thoronet work on rediscovering the vocality appropriate to church singing.”
vocalis
  1. A triangular band of muscle, inserted into the vocal process of the arytenoid cartilage, and into the adjacent portion of its anterior surface; it lies parallel with the vocal ligament, to which it is adherent.
voicism
  1. Discrimination against and negative perception of people based on how their voices sound.
voiceprint
  1. A digitally recorded sample of a person's voice to be used as a means of identification.
  2. Examples:
    1. “As with fingerprints, there are no two persons who have the same voiceprint.”
      “Your stored information will hopefully be secure with fingerprint or voiceprint identification capabilities.”
      “These systems identify and verify a unique physical characteristic of a person, such as a fingerprint, voiceprint or retina.”
vocalise
  1. A vocal exercise performed by singing one or more vowels without actually forming any words.
vocalisation
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of vocalization.
vocalics
  1. vocal elements of communication
  2. Examples:
    1. “Khmer language has rich vocalics with an extra distinction of long and short register to the vowels and diphthongs.”
vocalness
  1. The quality of being vocal; outspokenness.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I like what I'm seeing, in terms of the vocalness of certain people on our team, starting to hold people accountable and their teammates accountable.”
voicefulness
  1. The quality of being voiceful, or having a voice.
voicedness
  1. (phonetics) The state or property of being uttered in a voiced manner.
voicegram
  1. a spectrogram of a person's voice
voicescape
  1. A soundscape consisting of voices.
voicelessness
  1. The condition of being voiceless
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “At the heart of the discursive storms around voice and voicelessness, therefore, are African women.”
      “Such charity, benevolent as it was, failed to provide real solutions to the underlying problems of joblessness, powerlessness and voicelessness.”
      “I am very fond of a singer called Kristin Hersh who really has no voice, but has made a strong point out of her voicelessness.”
vocalist
  1. A singer; a person who likes to sing.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “What sets these Jersey lunkheads from the current wave of underground rock is vocalist Steve Miller and his glorious howl.”
      “The kids joined in the auction school, and male vocalist of the year Adam Harvey spent hours judging the ute competition.”
      “I was the vocalist for a Navy band and we did Top 40 stuff, going around on recruiting tours to urban schools.”
vocaliser
  1. Alternative form of vocalizer
vocalizing
vocalizer
  1. One who vocalizes.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The vocalizer mesmerized the audience with their breathtaking rendition of the opera.”
      “Add distortion, flanger, chorus, reverb, spacer, vocalizer, echo, slow it down, speed it up!”
      “She became an avid vocalizer, which helped develop expression in her speech.”
vocals
  1. plural of vocal
  2. (music) The words of a song together with other sounds sung by a vocalist
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Powerful drums in time like a metronome lead the way for trashy angular bass lines and wry energetic vocals.”
      “On their debut full-length, they combine syncopated ska guitars, manic horns, driving punk rhythms and frontman Tomas Kalnoky's raspy vocals.”
      “With their harmony vocals, swirling Hammond organ, and wah-wah guitar, they soon became known as the Beach Boys of hard rock.”
vocalisations
  1. plural of vocalisation
  2. Examples:
    1. “But these vocalisations should not be elevated to the status of human communications.”
      “Your horse learns words, phrases, body language and vocalisations so that it can understand you and guess what you're going to do next.”
      “Their vocalisations range from low guttural contact grunts to alarm barks and screams.”
vocalizations
  1. plural of vocalization
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Aboriginal songs include many kinds of vocalizations ranging from growling, grunting, and shrieking to bitonal syllabic chanting.”
      “It's during this time that male humpbacks emit vocalizations that sound, at least to human ears, like barks, chirps, and moans.”
      “The result underscores the necessity of searching for intermediacy when analyzing vocalizations of geographically distant populations.”
vocalizings
voicescapes
  1. plural of voicescape
voiceprints
  1. plural of voiceprint
vocabularies
  1. plural of vocabulary
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “But I also don't want to toss out controlled vocabularies, or expert assignment of categories.”
      “The dialogue participates in this uneasy sense of dislocation, being composed of vocabularies that effect various degrees of depersonalisation.”
      “The paper considers similarities and differences between names in Hebrew and Arabic as a specific lexical group within their vocabularies.”
vocalisers
  1. plural of vocaliser
vocalizers
voicegrams
  1. plural of voicegram
vocalists
  1. plural of vocalist
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This also is excellent preparation for accompanying other instrumentalists or vocalists and for composition.”
      “But although he has found the technology to come up with the tunes, he has struggled to discover vocalists to deliver the goods.”
      “Among them were composers, instrumentalists, vocalists and lecturers in the theory of music.”
vocalities
voicings
voicists
  1. plural of voicist
vocables
  1. plural of vocable
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Straight songs are often composed of vocables and are used as a warm-up for fancy dancers who dance in a straight upright posture.”
      “Songs with vocables for the lead and with lyrics for the second part are known as intertribals.”
      “Although vocables do not have a strict linguistic meaning, singers use them to communicate with and motivate the dancers.”
voicers
  1. plural of voicer
voices
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