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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
Source: Wiktionary
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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.
Source: Wiktionary
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