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voice
/vɔɪs/
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What does voice mean?
noun
- Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.
- Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- The tone or sound emitted by an object.
More meanings (17)
noun
- The faculty or power of utterance.
- That which is communicated; message; meaning.
- (figuratively) An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered.
- One who speaks; a speaker.
- A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, which indicates the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
- In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
- A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether they can send messages to the channel.
- (archaic) Command; precept.
verb
- To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
- To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
- To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
- To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
- To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
- (obsolete) To vote; to elect; to appoint
- (obsolete) To clamor; to cry out
proper noun
- The Indigenous Voice to Parliament proposal
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IPA pronunciation
/vɔɪs/
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“Boots and shoes under the sea,” the Gryphon went on in a deep voice, “are done with a whiting. Now you know.”
“I’m awfully sorry,” he said in a bright, clear voice, with a rising inflection, as if he expected her to say something.
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They heard his voice, and, looking back at him, saw one hand clutched in his hair and the other beating invisible things.
He did not rise to meet his visitor, but held out a cold hand and bade him welcome in a changed voice.
Perhaps there was to him a divinity expressed in the voice of the other—stern, hard, with no reflection of fear in it.