vocalize
English
Alternative forms
- vocalise (non-Oxford British spelling)
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
vocalize (third-person singular simple present vocaliz, present participle ing, simple past and past participle vocalized)
- To express with the voice, to utter.
- 1876, Walt Whitman, preface to the 1876 edition of Leaves of Grass
- Following the modern spirit, the real poems of the present, ever solidifying and expanding into the future, must vocalize the vastness and splendor and reality with which scientism has invested man and the universe,...
- 1876, Walt Whitman, preface to the 1876 edition of Leaves of Grass
- (of animals) To produce noises or calls from the throat.
- We could hear the monkeys vocalizing, though we could not see them.
- (music) To sing without using words.
- (linguistics) To turn a consonant into a vowel.
- In Hong Kong English, /l/ may be vocalized at the end of a syllable.
- (linguistics, dated) To make a sound voiced rather than voiceless.
- (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)
Synonyms
- (of humans): outspeak (rarely used as a synonym of vocalize)
Derived terms
Portuguese
Verb
vocalize