voice | (noun) a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated | - |
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(noun) the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech | - |
(noun) the ability to speak | - |
(noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: phonation, vocalisation, vocalism, vocalization, vox |
(noun) expressing in coherent verbal form | Synonyms: articulation |
(noun) the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music | Synonyms: part |
(noun) something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression | - |
(noun) A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced. | - |
(noun) a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance | - |
(noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: interpreter, representative, spokesperson |
(noun) (metonymy) a singer | - |
(noun) (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes | - |
voicelessness | (noun) having no voice in the management or control of affairs | - |
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(noun) speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: susurration, whisper, whispering |
(noun) (phonetics, of a consonant) The property of being spoken without vibration of the vocal cords, as [t], [s], or [f]. | - |
(noun) a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice | Synonyms: aphonia |
voicemail | (noun) a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed | Synonyms: voice mail |
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voiceprint | (noun) biometric identification by electronically recording and graphically representing a person's voice | - |
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voicer | (noun) a speaker who voices an opinion | - |
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(noun) someone who regulates the tone of organ pipes | - |
voicing | (noun) the act of adjusting an organ pipe (or wind instrument) so that it conforms to the standards of tone and pitch and color | - |
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void | (noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: emptiness, vacancy, vacuum |
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(noun) the state of nonexistence | Synonyms: nihility, nothingness, nullity |
voidance | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: emptying, evacuation |
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voider | (noun) a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried | Synonyms: clothes basket, clothes hamper, laundry basket |
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(noun) a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate | Synonyms: gusset |
(noun) an official who can invalidate or nullify | Synonyms: invalidator, nullifier |
(noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: defecator, shitter |
voiding | (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: elimination, evacuation, excreting, excretion |
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voile | (noun) a light semitransparent fabric | - |
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