vocal
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old French vocal.
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[edit] Adjective
vocal (comparative more vocal, superlative most vocal)
- Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices
- (Can we date this quote?) Milton,
- To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, / Made vocal by my song.
- vocal problems
- (Can we date this quote?) Milton,
- Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer, vocal worship.
- Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, spoken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds
- (phonetics) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See voice, and vowel
- (phonetics) Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel
- a vocal sound
- loud; getting oneself heard.
- The protestors were very vocal in their message to the mayor.
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[edit] Translations
of or pertaining to a vowel
phonetics
loud
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[edit] Noun
vocal (plural vocals)
- (phonetics) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal
- (Roman Catholic Church) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.
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[edit] Asturian
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vocal f. (plural vocales)
- A vowel.
[edit] Catalan
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vocal m. and f. (plural vocals)
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vocal f. (plural vocals)
[edit] French
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin vocalis, from vox, vocis (“voice”) .
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vocal m. (f. vocale, m. plural vocaux, f. plural vocales)
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- corde vocale
- vocable
- vocalement
- vocalique
- vocalisation
- vocalise
- vocaliser
- vocalisme
- voice
- voix
- voyelle
- vowel
[edit] Spanish
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vocal f. (plural vocales)
[edit] Noun
vocal m. and f. (plural vocales)
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vocal m. and f. (plural vocales)
- by means of the voice
- related to the voice
- using the voice