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US
/ˈvɔɪs/
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[ UK /vˈɔɪs/ ]
[ UK /vˈɔɪs/ ]
VERB
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give voice to
He voiced his concern - utter with vibrating vocal chords
NOUN
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the ability to speak
he lost his voice -
a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
the noisy voice of the waterfall
the incessant voices of the artillery -
the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
a singer takes good care of his voice
the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations - (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
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the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
A shrill voice sounded behind us -
a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
the Times is not the voice of New York
conservatism has many voices
the voice of the law -
something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
the wee small voice of conscience
the voice of experience
he said his voices told him to do it -
(metonymy) a singer
he wanted to hear trained voices sing it -
the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
he tried to sing the tenor part -
an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government -
expressing in coherent verbal form
the articulation of my feelings
I gave voice to my feelings
How To Use voice In A Sentence
- To supplement his income, he taught private voice lessons in his home and sang in a church choir.
- So it's a little more than passing strange that Mr. Brooks clucks about Mr. Obama's "über-partisan budget" when, given the last few weeks of shrieking and wailing from the Republicans about socialism and communism, he's been the voice of moderation in the room. Moderately Shocked
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- Brunhild, a mischievous, strong-minded goldfish (the voice of Noah Cyrus, Miley's younger sister), is determined to become a little girl when she's rescued from a jar and befriended by Sosuke (the voice of Frankie Jonas, the Jonas Brothers 'kid brother), a plucky, self-reliant 5-year-old. No Time's Right for 'Traveler's Wife'
- I had to join this long queue, that snaked around a couple of times, and as each person left, a disembodied voice said, ‘Cashier number seven, please!’
- Considering his height, then the steely look and his rough voice, both of which reminded me a lot of Carey, he was a rather intimidating person, even to me.
- Katherine spoke softly, sometimes hesitantly and sometimes in a rush, with a great deal more emotional inflection than the voice she uses when acting the cool professional.
- Immersed in her ample lap, her adoring voice broadcasting stereophonically through her bosoms, I absorbed the sensationalistic stories and lush illustrations of baby Moses in his basket, later parting the very Red Sea. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- But he had to raise his voice to be heard over jeering and whistling from centre-right senators. Times, Sunday Times
- Somewhere in the far regions of her mind a voice was screaming warnings.
