voice
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English voice, voys, vois, borrowed from Anglo-Norman voiz, voys, voice, Old French vois, voiz (Modern French voix), from Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx (“voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs, root noun from *wekʷ- (“to utter, speak”). Cognate with Sanskrit वाच् (vāc), Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps), Persian آواز (âvâz). Displaced native Middle English steven (“voice”) (from Old English stefn (see steven)), Old English hlēoþor, Old English woþ, and Old English reord. Compare advocate, advowson, avouch, convoke, vocal, vouch, vowel. Doublet of vox.
Inflected forms:
form: voices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: voyce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: voices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: voicing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: voiced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: voiced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: voyce
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.
pos: noun
examples: The human voice is the oldest musical instrument in history.
Stop repeating in that stupid voice what I say.
His low voice allowed him to become a bass in the choir.
Her voice was euer ſoft,
Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.
And joyn thy voice unto the Angel Quire,
Villa chief executive Paul Faulkner had backed manager Houllier during the week and asked for the fans to get behind their team as they looked to steer themselves away from the relegation zone.
To that end, the home supporters were in good voice to begin with, but it was Newcastle who started the game in the ascendancy, with Barton putting a diving header over the top from Jose Enrique's cross.
gloss: Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
pos: noun
gloss: The tone or sound emitted by an object.
pos: noun
examples: And after the earthquake, a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire, a still small voice.
Canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
The floods have lifted up their voice.
O Marcus, I am warm’d; my heart Leaps at the trumpet’s voice.
gloss: The faculty or power of utterance.
pos: noun
examples: to cultivate the voice
gloss: That which is communicated; message; meaning.
pos: noun
examples: I desire to bee present with you now, and to change my voyce, for I stand in doubt of you.
My voice is in my sword.
17th century, John Fell, unknown work
Let us call on God in the voice of his church.
gloss: An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Sicinius. How now, my masters! have you chose this man? / 1st Citizen. He has our voices, sir.
Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice / Of holy senates, and elect by voice.
Like many of the 7 million other first time voters, she came of age during half a decade of military rule that has governed the country since former general turned Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha seized power in a 2014 coup. "We have had our voice taken away for five years," she says.
gloss: Command; precept.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall yee perish; because ye would not be obedient vnto the voice of the Lord your God.
gloss: One who speaks; a speaker.
pos: noun
examples: a potent voice of Parliament.
The inclusion of transgender voices further disrupts the homonormalization of sex and identity evident in popular LGBTQ cinema.
President Biden told the American public in an Oval Office address on Wednesday that he had abandoned his re-election campaign because there is “a time and a place for new voices, fresh voices — yes, younger voices.”
gloss: A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
pos: noun
gloss: A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, which indicates the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
pos: noun
examples: The verbal system of Latin has two voices, active and passive.
There are four tenses of the subjunctive (present, perfect, imperfect, and pluperfect) and three voices (active, passive, and deponent). […] See 12.8 for the formation of the deponent voice.
gloss: In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
pos: noun
examples: The theme of this piece constantly migrates between the three voice parts.
gloss: A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether they can send messages to the channel.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: True, better clients will remember that a person had a voice before they were opped and will return the + when they are deopped, but that doesn't solve the problem.
gloss: To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He voiced the sentiments of the nation.
How often he would voice his love of England, his admiration of her Parliament, his pride in her history.
Rather assume thy right in silence and […] then voice it with claims and challenges.
It was voiced that the king purposed to put to death Edward Plantagenet.
gloss: To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: voice the pipes of an organ
gloss: To vote; to elect; to appoint
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To clamor; to cry out
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: If thou wilt give me Davids heart; Ile voyce, / Great God, with David; and make Davids choyce.
It is not the gift of every Perſon, nor of every Age, to harangue the multitude, to Voice it high and loud, & Dominari in Concionibus.
How wou'd they voice it o're and o're for Tachmas / To come, and blunt the edge of War agen!
[L]ambs are glad / Nosing the mother's udder, and the bird / Makes his heart voice among the blaze of flowers: […]
gloss: To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
examples: I would like this script to allow me to notice not only the ops in a channel, but also those that have been voiced by the ops, at the same time.
If you then want others to be able to talk, you can voice them (+v) or if you want everyone able to talk, you can remove the moderation flag on the channel (-m).
gloss: To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
pos: verb
examples: The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek.
Related words: vocable
vocabulary
vocal
vocalization
vocalize
vocation
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: озвучава
roman: ozvučava
lang: Danish
word: udtale stemt
lang: Esperanto
word: voĉi
lang: Finnish
word: puhua
lang: Finnish
word: puhua ääneen
lang: French
word: proclamer
lang: Hungarian
word: zöngésít
lang: Hungarian
word: zöngével/zöngésen ejt
lang: Japanese
word: 声をあげる
roman: koe wo ageru
lang: Macedonian
word: озвучува
roman: ozvučuva
lang: Portuguese
word: vocalizar
lang: Spanish
word: sonorizar
lang: Swedish
word: tala