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Meaning:

Noun:

  • Command; precept; ? now chiefly used in scriptural language.
  • Grammar A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
  • Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion
  • One who speaks; a speaker.
  • Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote.
  • phonetics Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants ''b'', ''v'', ''d'', etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; ? distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in ''f'', ''s'', ''sh'', etc., and also ''whisper''.
  • Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; steven; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human '''voice'''; a pleasant '''voice'''; a low '''voice'''.
  • The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the '''voice'''
  • The tone or sound emitted by anything

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Verb:

  • obsolete To vote; to elect; to appoint ? Shakespeare
  • obsolete To clamor; to cry out, to steven ? South
  • internet To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
  • phonology To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.
  • transitive To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to '''voice''' the pipes of an organ.
  • transitive To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce; to divulge; as, to '''voice''' the sentiments of the nation.

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