vocalize or vocalise (ˈvəʊkəˌlaɪz) ![]() | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to express with or use the voice; articulate (a speech, song, etc) |
| 2. | (tr) to make vocal or articulate |
| 3. | (tr) phonetics |
| a. to articulate (a speech sound) with voice | |
| b. to change (a consonant) into a vowel | |
| 4. | another word for vowelize |
| 5. | (intr) to sing a melody on a vowel, etc |
| vocalise or vocalise | |
| —vb | |
| vocali'zation or vocalise | |
| —n | |
| vocali'sation or vocalise | |
| —n | |
| 'vocalizer or vocalise | |
| —n | |
| 'vocaliser or vocalise | |
| —n | |
| vocalisation | |
noun | |
| 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" [syn: voice] |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |