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Vocalization

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Noun

1. phonation, vocalisation, vocalism, vocalization, voice, vox

the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract

Example Sentences:
'a singer takes good care of his voice'
'the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations'

2. utterance, vocalization

the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Vocalization

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verb
1. 
to express with or use the voice; articulate (a speech, song, etc)
2. (transitive)
to make vocal or articulate
3. (transitive) phonetics
a. 
to articulate (a speech sound) with voice
b. 
to change (a consonant) into a vowel
4.  another word for vowelize
5. (intransitive)
to sing a melody on a vowel, etc

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Vocalization

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verb transitiveWord forms: ˈvocalˌized or ˈvocalˌizing
1. 
a. 
to give utterance to; express with the voice; speak or sing
b. 
to make capable of vocal expression; make vocal, or articulate
2. 
to add diacritical vowel marks to (the exclusively consonantal characters of certain languages such as Hebrew)
3.  Phonetics
a. 
to change into or use as a vowel
b. 
to voice
verb intransitive
4. 
to make vocal sounds; speak or sing; specif., to do a singing exercise, using various vowel sounds
5. 
to be changed into a vowel; become vocalic

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Vocalization

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v. vo·cal·ized, vo·cal·iz·ing, vo·cal·iz·es
v.tr.
1. To produce by using the vocal organs: "I said these things out loud, actually vocalized the words" (Joan Didion).
2. To give voice to; articulate: a poem that vocalizes popular sentiment.
3. To mark (a vowelless Hebrew text, for example) with vowel points.
4. Linguistics
a. To change (a consonant) into a vowel during articulation.
b. To voice.
v.intr.
1.
a. To use the vocal organs to produce sounds: birds that vocalize in flight.
b. To use another organ, such as a swim bladder, to produce sounds.
c. Music To sing.
2. Linguistics To be changed into a vowel.

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