Vocalize
//ˈvoʊ.kə.laɪz// verb
verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To express with the voice, to utter.
"Following the modern spirit, the real poems of the present, ever solidifying and expanding into the future, must vocalize the vastness and splendor and reality with which scientism has invested man and the universe,[…]"
- 2 utter speech sounds wordnet
- 3 To produce noises or calls from the throat.
"We could hear the monkeys vocalizing, though we could not see them."
- 4 utter with vibrating vocal chords wordnet
- 5 To sing without using words.
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- 6 express or state clearly wordnet
- 7 To turn a consonant into a vowel.
"In Hong Kong English, /l/ may be vocalized at the end of a syllable."
- 8 pronounce as a vowel wordnet
- 9 To make a sound voiced rather than voiceless. dated
- 10 sing (each note a scale or in a melody) with the same vowel wordnet
- 11 To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)
Example
More examples"Following the modern spirit, the real poems of the present, ever solidifying and expanding into the future, must vocalize the vastness and splendor and reality with which scientism has invested man and the universe,[…]"
Etymology
From vocal + -ize.
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