voicing
English
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[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈvɔɪsɪŋ/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔɪsɪŋ
Etymology 1
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Verb
[edit]voicing
- present participle and gerund of voice
Etymology 2
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Noun
[edit]voicing (countable and uncountable, plural voicings)
- (music) The final regulation of the pitch and tone of any sound-producing entity, especially of an organ or similar musical instrument.
- (music) A particular arrangement of notes to form a chord.
- (phonetics) The articulatory process in which the vocal cords vibrate.
- (phonetics, phonology) A classification of speech sounds that tend to be associated with vocal cord vibration.
- (phonology) A phonological process that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one.
- Synonym: sonorization
- Antonyms: devoicing, surdization
- 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
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[edit]Translations
[edit]music: final regulation of the pitch and tone
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music: particular arrangement of notes to form a chord
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phonetics: articulatory process
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phonetics: classification of speech sounds
phonological process that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one
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