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voice in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. expressing in coherent verbal form
    "the articulation of my feelings"; "I gave voice to my feelings"
    articulation  voice 
  2. an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
    "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government"
    spokesperson  interpreter  representative  voice 
  3. the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
    "he tried to sing the tenor part"
    part  voice 
  4. the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
    "a singer takes good care of his voice"; "the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations"
    voice  vocalization  vocalisation  vocalism  phonation  vox 
  5. a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
    "the voice of the law"; "the Times is not the voice of New York"; "conservatism has many voices"
    voice 
  6. the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
    "A shrill voice sounded behind us"
    voice 
  7. the ability to speak
    "he lost his voice"
    voice 
  8. something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
    "the wee small voice of conscience"; "the voice of experience"; "he said his voices told him to do it"
    voice 
  9. a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
    "the noisy voice of the waterfall"; "the incessant voices of the artillery"
    voice 
  10. (metonymy) a singer
    "he wanted to hear trained voices sing it"
    voice 
  11. (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
    voice 
verb
  1. utter with vibrating vocal chords
    voice  sound  vocalize  vocalise 
  2. give voice to
    "He voiced his concern"
    voice 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University



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