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Word: vocal
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Adjective:
- Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, spoken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds
- Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices
- 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
- Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, '''vocal''' melody; '''vocal''' prayer, '''vocal''' worship.
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Noun:
- 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'''
- rfv-sense (insurance) A program consisting of Occupational Accident and Contingent Liability originally designed for the entertainment industry. It is an alternative to Workers Compensation and is available in most states.
- ''(Roman Catholic Church):'' A man who has a right to vote in certain elections
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