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ALL meanings of voice

voice
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  • countable noun voice When someone speaks or sings, you hear their voice. 0
  • countable noun voice Someone's voice is their opinion on a particular topic and what they say about it. 0
  • singular noun voice If you have a voice in something, you have the right to express an opinion on it. 0
  • verb voice If you voice something such as an opinion or an emotion, you say what you think or feel. 0
  • singular noun voice In grammar, if a verb is in the active voice, the person who performs the action is the subject of the verb. If a verb is in the passive voice, the thing or person affected by the action is the subject of the verb. 0
  • noun voice the sound made by the vibration of the vocal cords, esp when modified by the resonant effect of the tongue and mouth 0
  • noun voice the natural and distinctive tone of the speech sounds characteristic of a particular person 0
  • noun voice the condition, quality, effectiveness, or tone of such sounds 0
  • noun voice the musical sound of a singing voice, with respect to its quality or tone 0
  • noun voice the ability to speak, sing, etc 0
  • noun voice a sound resembling or suggestive of vocal utterance 0
  • noun voice written or spoken expression, as of feeling, opinion, etc (esp in the phrase give voice to) 0
  • noun voice a stated choice, wish, or opinion or the power or right to have an opinion heard and considered 0
  • noun voice a distinctive style of writing 0
  • noun voice an agency through which is communicated another's purpose, policy, etc 0
  • noun voice musical notes produced by vibrations of the vocal cords at various frequencies and in certain registers 0
  • noun voice (in harmony) an independent melodic line or part 0
  • noun voice the sound characterizing the articulation of several speech sounds, including all vowels or sonants, that is produced when the vocal cords make loose contact with each other and are set in vibration by the breath as it forces its way through the glottis 0
  • noun voice a category of the verb or verbal inflections that expresses whether the relation between the subject and the verb is that of agent and action, action and recipient, or some other relation 0
  • noun voice rumour 0
  • noun voice fame; renown 0
  • verb voice to utter in words; give expression to 0
  • verb voice to articulate (a speech sound) with voice 0
  • verb voice to adjust (a wind instrument or organ pipe) so that it conforms to the correct standards of tone colour, pitch, etc 0
  • verb voice to provide the voice for (a puppet or cartoon character) in an animated film 0
  • noun voice sound made through the mouth, esp. by human beings in talking, singing, etc. 0
  • noun voice the ability to make sounds orally or to speak, sing, etc. 0
  • noun voice any sound regarded as like vocal utterance 0
  • noun voice anything regarded as like vocal utterance in communicating to the mind 0
  • noun voice a specified condition, quality, or tone of vocal sound 0
  • noun voice the characteristic speech sounds normally made by a particular person 0
  • noun voice an expressed wish, choice, opinion, etc. 0
  • noun voice the right to express one's wish, choice, opinion, etc., or to make it prevail; vote 0
  • noun voice utterance or expression 0
  • noun voice the person or other agency by which something is expressed or made known 0
  • noun voice a characteristic of verbs, expressed in some languages by inflection, indicating the relation of the subject to the action of the verb either as agent (active voice), recipient (passive voice), or both, as in reflexives (middle voice); also, an analytic category based on this characteristic 0
  • noun voice any of the forms a verb takes to indicate this characteristic 0
  • noun voice musical sound made with the mouth; singing 0
  • noun voice the quality of a particular person's singing 0
  • noun voice a singer 0
  • noun voice any of the individual parts sung or played together in a musical composition 0
  • noun voice sound made by vibration of the vocal cords with air forced from the lungs, as in the articulation of all vowels and such consonants as (b), (d), (g), and (m) 0
  • verb transitive voice to give utterance or expression to; utter or express in words 0
  • verb transitive voice to regulate the tone of (organ pipes, etc.) 0
  • verb transitive voice to arrange (notes of a chord) or distribute notes to (instruments) so as to achieve a particular harmonic sound 0
  • verb transitive voice to utter with voice 0
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