voice
see also: Voice
Pronunciation
Voice
Proper noun
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see also: Voice
Pronunciation
- IPA: /vɔɪs/
From Middle English voice, voys, vois, borrowed from Anglo-Norman voiz, voys, voice, Old French vois, voiz (Modern French voix), from Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx, from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs, root noun from *wekʷ-.
Nounvoice (plural voices)
- Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character
- The human voice is the oldest musical instrument in history.
- She has a pleasant voice.
- His low voice allowed him to become a bass in the choir.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene iii], page 309 ↗, column 1:
- Her voice was euer ſoft,
Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.
- (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- The tone or sound emitted by an object
- 1712, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy:
- O Marcus, I am warm’d; my heart Leaps at the trumpet’s voice.
- The faculty or power of utterance
- to cultivate the voice
- That which is communicated; message; meaning.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene vii]:
- My voice is in my sword.
- 17th century, John Fell (bishop), unknown work
- Let us call on God in the voice of his church.
- (figurative) An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene iii]:
- Sicinius. How now, my masters! have you chose this man? / 1st Citizen. He has our voices, sir.
- 1697, Virgil, translated by John Dryden, The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC ↗:
- Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice / Of holy senates, and elect by voice.
- (archaic) Command; precept.
- One who speaks; a speaker.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC ↗, (please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX):
- a potent voice of Parliament.
- 2016, Sonia Tascon, Tyson Wils, Activist Film Festivals: Towards a Political Subject:
- The inclusion of transgender voices further disrupts the homonormalization of sex and identity evident in popular LGBTQ cinema.
- (literature) A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- (grammar) A particular way 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.
- The verbal system of Latin has two voices, active and passive.
- (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
- The theme of this piece constantly migrates between the three voice parts.
- (Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel.
- (sound of human speech) steven (obsolete), reard (obsolete or dialectal)
- (opinion) steven (obsolete), vote, say-so
- (voice of verbs) diathesis, gender (of verbs), grammatical voice, verbal voice
From Middle English voysen, voicen, from the noun (see above).
Verbvoice (voices, present participle voicing; simple past and past participle voiced)
- (transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
- He voiced the sentiments of the nation.
- 1893, Annie Wood Besant, An Autobiography:
- How often he would voice his love of England, his admiration of her Parliament, his pride in her history.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Great Place”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC ↗:
- Rather assume thy right in silence and […] then voice it with claims and challenges.
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC ↗:
- It was voiced that the king purposed to put to death Edward Plantagenet.
- (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
- (transitive) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
- voice the pipes of an organ
- (transitive, obsolete) To vote; to elect; to appoint
- (intransitive, obsolete) To clamor; to cry out
- 1868, Alfred Tennyson, “Lucretius”, in The Holy Grail and Other Poems, London: Strahan and Co., […], published 1870, →OCLC ↗, page 211 ↗:
- [L]ambs are glad / Nosing the mother's udder, and the bird / Makes his heart voice among the blaze of flowers: […]
- (transitive, Internet, IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
- (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
Voice
Proper noun
- (Australian politics) The Indigenous Voice to Parliament proposal
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