Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To articulate or engage in articulation by moving the lips or other speech organs without making audible sounds, as in reading to oneself.
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- verb transitive and intransitive To form
words orstatements inthought and express theminwardly without uttering themaloud .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb articulate without making audible sounds
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Examples
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[I] read what I write out loud rather than just subvocalize it as I write.
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If you need to speak to the whole group just subvocalize.
Hunger Moon: Chapter Fifteen amberfocus 2008
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[I] read what I write out loud rather than just subvocalize it as I write.
Re-styling print copy into web conversation « Subs’ Standards 2008
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Most readers, and precisely because they subvocalize in the production of a text, are likely to be taken momentarily aback by this thumbnail sketch of
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Said new text-to-speech feature removes the "sub" from subvocalize replacing it with an electronically generated voice; you can listen in this video, about 1 minute in.
George Spyros: Kindle 2: Green to Go Gadget? Subscribe to HuffPo on Kindle 2009
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If you want to turn off the tags, just go to your prefs and subvocalize – or type in – minimize smart object tags.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 12.1 of 31.1 2009
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The young man had a miniaturized microphone clipped to the inside of his shirt collar, so he could subvocalize information to the all-but-invisible receiver in the President's left ear.
Moonwar Bova, Ben, 1932- 1997
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I felt Elnear subvocalize a call to her Security people as she spotted me wading toward her.
Catspaw Vinge, Joan D. 1988
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“Shelve it,” said Mahnmut, forgetting to subvocalize.
Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981
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But we did subvocalize the words silently, as it helped in being understood.
Time For The Stars Heinlein, Robert A. 1956
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