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Voice
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- 1 The Indigenous Voice to Parliament proposal Australian
- 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.
"The human voice is the oldest musical instrument in history."
- 2 a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated wordnet
- 3 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.
- 4 the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech wordnet
- 5 The tone or sound emitted by an object.
"And after the earthquake, a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire, a still small voice."
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- 6 the ability to speak wordnet
- 7 The faculty or power of utterance.
"to cultivate the voice"
- 8 the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music wordnet
- 9 That which is communicated; message; meaning.
"I desire to bee present with you now, and to change my voyce, for I stand in doubt of you."
- 10 expressing in coherent verbal form wordnet
- 11 An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered. figuratively
"Sicinius. How now, my masters! have you chose this man? / 1st Citizen. He has our voices, sir."
- 12 the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract wordnet
- 13 Command; precept. archaic
"As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall yee perish; because ye would not be obedient vnto the voice of the Lord your God."
- 14 something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression wordnet
- 15 One who speaks; a speaker.
"a potent voice of Parliament."
- 16 A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced. wordnet
- 17 A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- 18 a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance wordnet
- 19 A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, which indicates the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
"The verbal system of Latin has two voices, active and passive."
- 20 an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose wordnet
- 21 In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
"The theme of this piece constantly migrates between the three voice parts."
- 22 (metonymy) a singer wordnet
- 23 A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether they can send messages to the channel. Internet
"True, better clients will remember that a person had a voice before they were opped and will return the + when they are deopped, but that doesn't solve the problem."
- 24 (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes wordnet
- 1 To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce transitive
"He voiced the sentiments of the nation."
- 2 give voice to wordnet
- 3 To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath. transitive
- 4 utter with vibrating vocal chords wordnet
- 5 To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of transitive
"voice the pipes of an organ"
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- 6 To vote; to elect; to appoint obsolete, transitive
- 7 To clamor; to cry out intransitive, obsolete
"If thou wilt give me Davids heart; Ile voyce, / Great God, with David; and make Davids choyce."
- 8 To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel. Internet, transitive
"I would like this script to allow me to notice not only the ops in a channel, but also those that have been voiced by the ops, at the same time."
- 9 To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
"The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek."
Etymology
From Middle English voice, voys, vois, borrowed from Anglo-Norman voiz, voys, voice, Old French vois, voiz (Modern French voix), from Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx (“voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs, root noun from *wekʷ- (“to utter, speak”). Cognate with Sanskrit वाच् (vāc), Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps), Persian آواز (âvâz). Displaced native Middle English steven (“voice”) (from Old English stefn (see steven)), Old English hlēoþor, Old English woþ, and Old English reord. Compare advocate, advowson, avouch, convoke, vocal, vouch, vowel. Doublet of vox.
From Middle English voysen, voicen, from the noun (see above).
Clipping of Voice to Parliament.
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