voicing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔɪsɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪsɪŋ

Etymology 1

From voice +‎ -ing.

Verb

voicing

1. present participle and gerund of voice

Etymology 2

From voice +‎ -ing.

Noun

voicing (plural voicings)

1. (music) The final regulation of the pitch and tone of any sound-producing entity, especially of an organ or similar musical instrument.
2. (music) A particular arrangement of notes to form a chord.
3. (phonetics) The articulatory process in which the vocal cords vibrate.
4. (phonetics, phonology) A classification of speech sounds that tend to be associated with vocal cord vibration.
5. (phonology) A phonological process that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one.

   Synonym: sonorization

   Antonyms: devoicing, surdization

6. A sound made by the voice; vocalization.
   • 1900, Valentine Brown, “The Fisherman's Last Drift”, in Poems:

     Shrill voicings of seagulls

   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 250:

     Pete dressed Eddie's high-pitched voicings in the stick-sweet strings of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.

Derived terms

• devoicing, de-voicing
• revoicing, re-voicing

 

Related terms

• devoice, de-voice
• revoice, re-voice
• revoicer
• unvoice, unvoicing
• voice
• voiced → voicedness
• voiceless → voicelessness
• voicening

 

Translations

music: final regulation of the pitch and tone

• Finnish: virittäminen (fi)

music: particular arrangement of notes to form a chord

• Finnish: soinnutus (fi)
• Japanese: ボイシング (boishingu)

phonetics: articulatory process

• Finnish: soinnuttaminen (fi)
• French: voisement (fr) m
• Hungarian: zöngésülés, zöngésedés (becoming voiced), zöngésítés (making another sound voiced)
• Russian: озвонче́ние (ru) n (ozvončénije)

phonetics: classification of speech sounds

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 清濁／清浊 (zh) (qīngzhuó)

• Finnish: sointi (fi)
• Hungarian: zöngésség (hu), zönge (hu)
• Japanese: 清濁 (ja) (せいだく, seidaku)
• Russian: зво́нкость (ru) f (zvónkostʹ)

phonological process that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one

• Finnish: soinnillistuminen
• French: voisement (fr) m, sonorisation (fr) f
• Polish: udźwięcznienie n

See also

• accordatura