voice
Forms
- Plural
- voices
- present (v1)
- voice
- past (v2)
- voiced
- past participle (v3)
- voiced
- present participle
- voicing
- 3rd person singular
- voices
Definitions
1.Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.
- Stop repeating in that stupid voice what I say.
- His low voice allowed him to become a bass in the choir.
- The human voice is the oldest musical instrument in history.
2.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.
3.The tone or sound emitted by an object.
- The floods have lifted up their voice.
- O Marcus, I am warm’d; my heart Leaps at the trumpet’s voice.
- And after the earthquake, a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire, a still small voice.
4.The faculty or power of utterance.
1.To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
- He voiced the sentiments of the nation.
- It was voiced that the king purposed to put to death Edward Plantagenet.
- How often he would voice his love of England, his admiration of her Parliament, his pride in her history.
2.To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
3.To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
4.To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
- I would like this script to allow me to notice not only the ops in a channel, but also those that have been voiced by the ops, at the same time.
- If you then want others to be able to talk, you can voice them (+v) or if you want everyone able to talk, you can remove the moderation flag on the channel (-m).
Frequency
Overall
Common· #534
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Common
Etymology
From Middle English voice, voys, vois, borrowed from Anglo-Norman voiz, voys, voice, Old French vois, voiz (Modern French voix), from Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx (“voice”).