Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
verb
To pronounce a sound with little or no vibration of the vocal cords, especially a sound that is normally pronounced with such vibration (i.e. a voiced sound).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To remove the voice flag from a user on IRC, preventing them from sending messages to the channel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
utter with tense vocal chords
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: voice
Broader terms: pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h1 Proto-Indo-European *déh1 Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- Proto-Indo-European *wekw-der. Proto-Indo-European *wṓkws Proto-Italic *wōks Latin vōcem Anglo-Norman voizbor. Middle English voys English voice English devoice From de- + voice.
Across languages
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
