Voice

7 definitions found

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

  Voice \Voice\, n. [OE. vois, voys, OF. vois, voiz, F. voix, L.
     vox, vocis, akin to Gr. ? a word, ? a voice, Skr. vac to say,
     to speak, G. erw[aum]hnen to mention. Cf. {Advocate},
     {Advowson}, {Avouch}, {Convoke}, {Epic}, {Vocal}, {Vouch},
     {Vowel}.]
     1. Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by


        human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered
        considered as possessing some special quality or
        character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low
        voice.
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              He with a manly voice saith his message. --Chaucer.
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              Her voice was ever soft,
              Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman.
                                                    --Shak.
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              Thy voice is music.                   --Shak.
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              Join thy voice unto the angel choir.  --Milton.
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     2. (Phon.) Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or
        song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels;
        sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; -- distinguished
        from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and
        also whisper.
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     Note: Voice, in this sense, is produced by vibration of the
           so-called vocal cords in the larynx (see Illust. of
           {Larynx}) which act upon the air, not in the manner of
           the strings of a stringed instrument, but as a pair of
           membranous tongues, or reeds, which, being continually
           forced apart by the outgoing current of breath, and
           continually brought together again by their own
           elasticity and muscular tension, break the breath
           current into a series of puffs, or pulses, sufficiently
           rapid to cause the sensation of tone. The power, or
           loudness, of such a tone depends on the force of the
           separate pulses, and this is determined by the pressure
           of the expired air, together with the resistance on the
           part of the vocal cords which is continually overcome.
           Its pitch depends on the number of aerial pulses within
           a given time, that is, on the rapidity of their
           succession. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 5,
           146, 155.
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     3. The tone or sound emitted by anything.
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              After the fire a still small voice.   --1 Kings xix.
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              Canst thou thunder with a voice like him? --Job xl.
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              The floods have lifted up their voice. --Ps. xciii.
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              O Marcus, I am warm'd; my heart
              Leaps at the trumpet's voice.         --Addison.
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     4. The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the
        voice.
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     5. Language; words; speech; expression; signification of
        feeling or opinion.
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              I desire to be present with you now, and to change
              my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. --Gal. iv.
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              My voice is in my sword.              --Shak.
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              Let us call on God in the voice of his church. --Bp.
                                                    Fell.
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     6. Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote.
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              Sic. How now, my masters! have you chose this man?
              1 Cit. He has our voices, sir.        --Shak.
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              Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice
              Of holy senates, and elect by voice.  --Dryden.
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     7. Command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural
        language.
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              So shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient
              unto the voice of the Lord your God.  --Deut. viii.
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     8. One who speaks; a speaker. "A potent voice of Parliament."
        --Tennyson.
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     9. (Gram.) A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating
        verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which
        is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to
        the action which the verb expresses.
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     {Active voice} (Gram.), that form of the verb by which its
        subject is represented as the agent or doer of the action
        expressed by it.
  
     {Chest voice} (Phon.), a kind of voice of a medium or low
        pitch and of a sonorous quality ascribed to resonance in
        the chest, or thorax; voice of the thick register. It is
        produced by vibration of the vocal cords through their
        entire width and thickness, and with convex surfaces
        presented to each other.
  
     {Head voice} (Phon.), a kind of voice of high pitch and of a
        thin quality ascribed to resonance in the head; voice of
        the thin register; falsetto. In producing it, the
        vibration of the cords is limited to their thin edges in
        the upper part, which are then presented to each other.
  
     {Middle voice} (Gram.), that form of the verb by which its
        subject is represented as both the agent, or doer, and the
        object of the action, that is, as performing some act to
        or upon himself, or for his own advantage.
  
     {Passive voice}. (Gram.) See under {Passive}, a.
  
     {Voice glide} (Pron.), the brief and obscure neutral vowel
        sound that sometimes occurs between two consonants in an
        unaccented syllable (represented by the apostrophe), as in
        able (a"b'l). See {Glide}, n., 2.
  
     {Voice stop}. See {Voiced stop}, under {Voiced}, a.
  
     {With one voice}, unanimously. "All with one voice . . .
        cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians." --Acts xix.
        34.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Voice \Voice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Voiced}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Voicing}.]
     1. To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish;
        to announce; to divulge; as, to voice the sentiments of
        the nation. "Rather assume thy right in silence and . . .
        then voice it with claims and challenges." --Bacon.
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              It was voiced that the king purposed to put to death
              Edward Plantagenet.                   --Bacon.
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     2. (Phon.) To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce
        with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal
        cords; to speak above a whisper.
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     3. To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the
        tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
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     4. To vote; to elect; to appoint. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Voice \Voice\, v. i.
     To clamor; to cry out. [Obs.] --South.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  voice
       n 1: the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's
            speech; "A shrill voice sounded behind us"
       2: 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: {vocalization}, {vocalisation}, {phonation},
           {vox}]
       3: a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance; "the noisy voice of
          the waterfall"; "the incessant voices of the artillery"
       4: expressing in coherent verbal form; "the articulation of my
          feelings"; "I gave voice to my feelings" [syn: {articulation}]
       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"
       6: 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"
       7: (metonymy) a singer; "he wanted to hear trained voices sing
          it"
       8: an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose;
          "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the
          major organs of government" [syn: {spokesperson}, {interpreter},
           {representative}]
       9: the ability to speak; "he lost his voice"
       10: (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive)
           of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that
           the verb denotes
       11: the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in
           polyphonic music; "he tried to sing the tenor part" [syn:
            {part}]
       v 1: give voice to; "He voiced his concern"
       2: utter with vibrating vocal chords [syn: {sound}, {vocalize},
           {vocalise}] [ant: {devoice}]

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

  339 Moby Thesaurus words for "voice":
     Australian ballot, Hare system, Heldentenor, Meistersinger, OK,
     acceptance, accompaniment, active, active voice, adherence,
     admiration, agency, agent, air, allophone, alto, alveolar,
     apico-alveolar, apico-dental, approbation, approval, aria singer,
     articulate, articulation, aspiration, assert, assimilation, atone,
     attune, aye, ballot, baritenor, baritone, bass, basso, basso buffo,
     basso cantante, basso continuo, basso ostinato, basso profundo,
     bassus, bilabial, blessing, blues singer, bourdon, breathe,
     bring up, burden, cacuminal, canary, cantatrice, canto, cantor,
     cantus, cantus figuratus, cantus planus, canvass, canvassing,
     caroler, casting vote, cerebral, chance, chanter, chantress, check,
     chest voice, chime, chord, chorus, coloratura, coloratura soprano,
     come out with, comic bass, communicate, consonant, continuant,
     continuo, contralto, convey, countenance, countertenor,
     counting heads, crooner, cumulative voting, deciding vote,
     decision, declare, deep bass, deliver, dental, descant, diphthong,
     disclose, dissimilation, diva, division, dramatic soprano, drone,
     drone bass, emit, endorsement, enfranchisement, enunciate,
     epenthetic vowel, esteem, explosive, express, expression,
     fagot vote, falsetto, favor, favorable vote, figured bass,
     fling off, formulate, forum, franchise, give, give expression,
     give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, glide,
     glottal, glottalization, graveyard vote, ground bass, guttural,
     hand vote, head voice, herald, heroic tenor, hymner, impart,
     improvisator, instrument, labial, labialization, labiodental,
     labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lead singer, let out,
     lieder singer, line, lingual, linguistic act, lip, liquid,
     list system, locution, make known, manner of articulation,
     manner of speaking, medio-passive, medium, melodist, mezzo-soprano,
     middle, middle voice, mode of expression, modification,
     monophthong, morphophoneme, mouthpiece, mute, nasal, nay, no, nod,
     nontransferable vote, occlusive, official spokesman, opera singer,
     option, organ, out with, palatal, parasitic vowel, parol, parole,
     part, participation, passive, passive voice, peak, pharyngeal,
     pharyngealization, phonate, phonation, phone, phoneme, phrase,
     plain chant, plain song, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plosive, plumper,
     plural vote, poll, polling, pour forth, preferential voting,
     present, prick song, prima donna, prolocutor, prolocutress,
     prolocutrix, pronounce, proportional representation,
     prothetic vowel, proxy, psalm singer, publication, put, put forth,
     put in tune, put in words, raise, rapporteur, record vote, recount,
     referendum, reflexive, reporter, representation, representative,
     respect, retroflex, reveal, right to vote, rising vote,
     rock-and-roll singer, sanction, say, say-so, seal of approval,
     secret ballot, segmental phoneme, semivowel, sequence of phonemes,
     set forth, share, show of hands, singer, single vote, singstress,
     snap vote, sonant, songbird, songster, songstress, sonority,
     soprano, sound, speaker, speaking, speech, speech act,
     speech sound, spokesman, spokesperson, spokeswoman,
     stamp of approval, statement, stop, straw vote, string, suffrage,
     surd, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, talk, tell, tenor,
     the spoken word, thorough bass, throw off, timbre, tone, tone down,
     tone of voice, tone up, tongue, torch singer, transferable vote,
     transition sound, treble, triphthong, tune, tune up, turn,
     undersong, utter, utterance, utterance string, vehicle, velar,
     vent, verbalize, viva voce, vocable, vocalic, vocalist, vocalize,
     vocalizer, voce, voce di petto, voce di testa, vocoid, voice part,
     voice qualifier, voice quality, voice vote, voiced sound,
     voiceless sound, voicing, vote, voting, voting right, vowel,
     warbler, way of saying, whisper, word, word of mouth, words,
     write-in, write-in vote, yea, yea vote, yeas and nays, yes,
     yodeler
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  VOICE
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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  voice vt. To phone someone, as opposed to emailing them or connecting
     in {talk mode}. "I'm busy now; I'll voice you later."