Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the production of sound through the mouth.
- adjective Uttered or produced by the voice.
- adjective Full of voices; resounding.
- adjective Tending to express oneself often or freely; outspoken.
- adjective Of or resembling vowels; vocalic.
- adjective Voiced.
- adjective Music Of, relating to, or performed by singing.
- noun A vocal sound.
- noun A part or melody that is sung in a musical performance or recording.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the voice, to speech, or to song; uttered or modulated by the voice,oral.
- Having a voice; endowed, or as if endowed, with a voice; possessed of utterance or audible expression.
- In phonetics: Voiced; uttered with voice as distinct from breath; sonant: said of certain alphabetic sounds or letters, as z or v or b as distinguished from
s or f or p respectively Having a vowel character or function; vowel. - In zoöl, voiced; uttered by the mouth; formed in the vocal organs: distinguished from
sonorific : noting the cries of animals, as distinguished from the mechanical noises they may make, as the stridulation of an insect. - noun In the Roman Catholic Church, a man who has a right to vote in certain elections.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Phon.) 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 anonvocal . - noun (R. C. Ch.) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.
- adjective Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, spoken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds.
- adjective Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as
v ,l , etc., or by both, as in the nasalsm ,n ,ng ; sonant; intonated; voiced. SeeVoice , andVowel , alsoGuide to Pronunciation , §§ 199-202. - adjective Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel.
- adjective (Anat.) The two pairs of mucous membranes that project into the larynx, and which produce the sounds of speech by vibrating under the influence of air exhaled from the lungs. See
Larynx , and the Note underVoice , n., 1. - adjective (Med.) the perceptible vibration of the chest wall, produced by the transmission of the sonorous vibrations during the act of using the voice.
- adjective music made by the voice, in distinction from
instrumental music ; hence, music or tunes set to words, to be performed by the human voice. - adjective (Anat.) the part of the air passages above the inferior ligaments of the larynx, including the passages through the nose and mouth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices
- adjective Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer, vocal worship.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, spoken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds
- adjective phonetics Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m., n., ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See
voice , andvowel - adjective phonetics Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel
- adjective
loud ; getting oneself heard. - noun 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
- noun Roman Catholic Church A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or using the power to produce speech or sound
- noun a short musical composition with words
- noun music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment
- adjective relating to or designed for or using the singing voice
- adjective full of the sound of voices
- adjective given to expressing yourself freely or insistently
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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While I applaud his early championing of mono, his work with George Harrison on All Things Must Pass was horrible (the vocal is almost inaudible), and his work with Lennon only acceptable because of the generally sparse arrangements.
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They called -- they -- they used what they called vocal anesthetic, which means the doctor just says, ` This is not going to hurt much. '
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And here there's always been concern about what they call the vocal minority -- the ability to destabilize the situation.
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It is a set of conventions for representing the syntactical organisation of a written text and also for representing the variation in vocal pitch and rhythm appropriate to a spoken performance of the text … It shows how a piece of writing should ‘go’ in a spoken performance.
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My vocal is naturally sibilant, but I risked the enhancer anyway, and applied some de-essing in software as usual.
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Mr. He is referring to the vocal elements, or rather tribal-like chants, that he and other sports authorities have added to the 9th Edition of the People's Radio Calisthenics.
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The band was a rock power-trio - Oded Caspi on electric guitar, Yaron Engler on the drums and me as main vocal and bassman.
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I played around with some reggae equalization, which makes quite an interesting difference, particularly if the vocal is thickened – A recut of the vocal with a little more anger (or sentiment?) would also be interesting.
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So the vocal is livelier now (?), and (maybe) has a bit more grit.
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Unsurprisingly, all the major newsprint and most journalists officially endorsed the Respondents, politicians were bombarded with letter and email campaigns resulting in vocal pronouncements for a review of human rights commissions (HRCs) and their provisions, and several civil liberty groups and recognizable figures such as Alan Borovoy provided unwavering support and reprimanded the use of HRCs for censuring our God given right (sic) to express ourselves.
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The term “vocal fingerprints” dates to at least as early as 1911, according to Mara Mills and Xiaochang Li, the coauthors of an history on the topic.
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The term “vocal fingerprints” dates to at least as early as 1911, according to Mara Mills and Xiaochang Li, the coauthors of an history on the topic.
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Caitlyn explained that vocal biomarkers are qualities below the level of human hearing that correlate with emotional and physiological conditions.
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