Found 2 hits - Term: voice stop, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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. erwaumhnen 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, sectsect 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.
12.
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canst thou thunder with a voice like him? --job xl.
9.
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the floods have lifted up their voice. --ps. xciii.
3.
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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.
20.
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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.
20.
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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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see also:
advocate advowson avouch convoke epic vocal
vouch vowel larynx active voice chest voice
head voice middle voice passive voice passive voice glide
glide voice stop voiced stop voiced with one voice
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voiced \voiced\, a.
1. furnished with a voice; expressed by the voice.
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2. phon. uttered with voice; pronounced with vibrations of
the vocal cords; sonant; -- said of a sound uttered with
the glottis narrowed.
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voiced stop, voice stop phon., a stopped consonant made
with tone from the larynx while the mouth organs are
closed at some point; a sonant mute, as b, d, g hard.
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see also:
voiced stop voice stop
Results 1 - 8 of 8 found about voice stop: Head Voice
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Head Voice, definition of term: Head Voice
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>> P Words
Passive Voice, definition of term: Passive Voice
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Singing Voice, definition of term: Singing Voice
singing+voice_pag1.html Glottal Stop
>> G Words
Glottal Stop, definition of term: Glottal Stop
glottal+stop_pag1.html Full Stop
>> F Words
Full Stop, definition of term: Full Stop
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>> B Words
Bus Stop, definition of term: Bus Stop
bus+stop_pag1.html Flag Stop
>> F Words
Flag Stop, definition of term: Flag Stop
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>> A Words
Active Voice, definition of term: Active Voice
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