vocalization
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kəˌlaɪz verb (used with object)
1.
to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
2.
to endow with a voice; cause to utter.
3.
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, especially to warm up the voice, practice vowel sounds, etc., before a performance.
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8.
Phonetics. to become changed into a vowel.
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vocalize or vocalise (ˈvəʊkəˌlaɪz) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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 | |
| 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 | |
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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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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Vocalization is the primary means of communication between members of the species.
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