vocalize
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- vocalise (non-Oxford British English)
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
vocalize (third-person singular simple present vocalizes, present participle vocalizing, simple past and past participle vocalized)
- To express with the voice, to utter.
- 1876, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, preface to the 1876 edition:
- 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, […]
- (of animals) To produce noises or calls from the throat.
- We could hear the monkeys vocalizing, though we could not see them.
- (music) To sing without using words.
- (linguistics) To turn a consonant into a vowel.
- In Hong Kong English, /l/ may be vocalized at the end of a syllable.
- (linguistics, dated) To make a sound voiced rather than voiceless.
- (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)
Synonyms edit
- (of humans): outspeak (rarely used as a synonym of vocalize)
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Translations edit
to express with the voice, to utter
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of animals: to produce noises or calls from the throat
music: to sing without using words
linguistics: to turn a consonant into a vowel
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(dated in English) linguistics: to make a sound voiced rather than voiceless
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Portuguese edit
Verb edit
vocalize
- inflection of vocalizar: