Definition of voice

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Voice (n.) 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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Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room..
Aphonous :: Aphonous (a.) Without voice; voiceless; nonvocal.
Rise :: Rise (n.) Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone..
Voice :: Voice (n.) The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the voice..
Chant :: Chant (v. i.) To make melody with the voice; to sing.
Score :: Score (n.) The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts..
Stopcock :: Stop (n.) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed..
Heterophony :: Heterophony (n.) An abnormal state of the voice.
Thesis :: Thesis (n.) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.
Hoarseness :: Hoarseness (n.) Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords..
Babel :: Babel (n.) Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages..
Vociferate :: Vociferate (v. t.) To utter with a loud voice; to shout out.
Autophony :: Autophony (n.) An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest..
Syllable :: Syllable (n.) An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only
Halloo :: Halloo (v. i.) To cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to a person, as by the word halloo..
Voice :: Voice (v. t.) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ..
Mezzo-soprano :: Mezzo-soprano (n.) A mezzo-soprano voice.
Inflect :: Inflect (v. t.) To modulate, as the voice..
Surd :: Surd (a.) Uttered, as an element of speech, without tone, or proper vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated; nonvocal; atonic; whispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, //169, 179, 180..
Inflection :: Inflection (n.) Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice.
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