VOICE
Definition of VOICE
- (noun)the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
- (noun)the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- (noun)a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
- (noun)expressing in coherent verbal form
- (noun)a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
- (noun)something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
- (noun)(metonymy) a singer
- (noun)an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- (noun)the ability to speak
- (noun)(linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- (noun)the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- (noun)A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
- (verb)give voice to
- (verb)utter with vibrating vocal chords