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vo⋅cal⋅ize

  [voh-kuh-lahyz] verb, -ized, -iz⋅ing.
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–verb (used with object)
1. to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
2. to endow with a voice; cause to utter.
3. Phonetics.
a. to voice.
b. to change into a vowel (contrasted with consonantalize ).
4. (of Hebrew, Arabic, and other writing systems that do not usually indicate vowels) to furnish with vowels or vowel points.
–verb (used without object)
5. to use the voice, as in speech or song.
6. to sing without uttering words, esp. to warm up the voice, practice vowel sounds, etc., before a performance.
7. to sing scales, arpeggios, trills, or the like, usually to a solmization syllable or a vowel sound.
8. Phonetics. to become changed into a vowel.
Also, especially British, vocalise.

Origin:
1660–70; vocal + -ize

Related forms:
vo⋅cal⋅i⋅za⋅tion, noun
vo⋅cal⋅iz⋅er, noun
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vo·cal·ize   (vō'kə-līz')   
v.   vo·cal·ized, vo·cal·iz·ing, vo·cal·iz·es

v.   tr.

  1. To produce with the voice.

  2. To give voice to; articulate: vocalize popular sentiment.

  3. To mark (a vowelless Hebrew text, for example) with vowel points.

  4. Linguistics

    1. To change (a consonant) into a vowel during articulation.

    2. To voice.

v.   intr.

    1. To use the voice.

    2. Music To sing.

  2. Linguistics To be changed into a vowel.

vo'cal·i·za'tion (-kə-lĭ-zā'shən) n., vo'cal·iz'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: vo·cal·i·za·tion
Variant: also British vo·cal·i·sa·tion /"vO-k&-l&-'zA-sh&n/
Function: noun
: the act or process of producing sounds with the voice; also : a sound thus produced —vo·cal·ize also British vo·cal·ise verb -ized also British -ised; -iz·ing also British -is·ing
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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vocalization

any sound produced through the action of an animal's respiratory system and used in communication. Vocal sound, which is virtually limited to frogs, crocodilians and geckos, birds, and mammals, is sometimes the dominant form of communication. In many birds and nonhuman primates the adult repertoire comprises a number of different calls, used to indicate territoriality, aggression, alarm, fright, contentment, hunger, the presence of food, or the need for companionship. Bird song (q.v.), the most intensively studied of animal vocalizations, consists primarily of territorial and mating calls.

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