Vocalization

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vocalization \Vo`cal*i*za"tion\, n.
     1. The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.
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     2. The formation and utterance of vocal sounds.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  vocalization
       n 1: 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" [syn: {voice}, {vocalisation}, {phonation},
             {vox}]
       2: the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication [syn: {utterance}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "vocalization":
     articulation, attack, bel canto, bravura, choral singing,
     coloratura, croon, crooning, delivery, diction, enunciation,
     folk singing, hum, humming, intonation, lyricism, mouth, mouthing,
     operatic singing, phonation, pronunciation, scat, scat singing,
     singing, sol-fa, sol-fa exercise, solfeggio, solmization, song,
     sounding, speaking, speech, tonic sol-fa, utterance, verbalization,
     vocal music, voice, voicing, warbling, yodel, yodeling