Word Finder - voiced

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To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce

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He voiced the sentiments of the nation.

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To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.

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To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of

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voice the pipes of an organ

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To vote; to elect; to appoint

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To clamor; to cry out

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(IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.

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To act as a voice actor to portray a character.

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Sounded with vibration of the vocal cords. For example, the phone [z] is voiced, while [s] is unvoiced.

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(in combination) Having a specified kind of voice.

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a shrill-voiced little boy

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(of a signal) That contains voice.

Laney voiced his same thought.

Hayne, from the same state, voiced this doctrine in the Senate, and Webster's reply was his most powerful exposition of the national conception of the Union.

At the end of words the voiced sound is often written with -s, the unvoiced with -ss as in his and hiss.

Mr. Harding's inaugural address, and his first message to Congress, delivered in person on April 12, voiced his desire to return to " normalcy," as he expressed it.

The voiced sound to this is generally written z as in azure, but sometimes s as in pleasure.

It was a fertile soil for Gaj's agitation, and in 1848 the Croatian nation found in Baron Jelacic a military leader who voiced the Illyrian idea and hoped to realize it in union with the Habsburg Dynasty and the other subject nationalities of Hungary.

Languages cannot have voiced obstruents unless they have voiceless obstruents.

I'd voiced this concern to Betsy throughout the week and I knew she was of a like mind.

With her back still toward him, she asked what must have been the most difficult questioned she ever voiced.

The text sought permission and voiced defiance.

In other cases the pronunciation can be ascertained only from the context, as in use, unvoiced for the substantive, voiced for the verb.

V is therefore a voiced labio-dental spirant, the breath escaping through a very narrow slit between the lower lip and the upper teeth.

In other dialects of Italy b is found representing an original voiced guttural (gw), which, however, is regularly replaced by v in Latin.

In English th represents both the unvoiced sound J as in thin, &c., and the voiced sound 5, which is found initially only in pronominal words like this, that, there, then, those, is commonest medially as in father, bother, smother, either, and is found also finally in words like with (the preposition), both.

In modern Greek the ancient b (d) has become the voiced spirant (8), though it is still written b.

The natural objection of the colonies, as voiced, for example, by the assembly of Pennsylvania, was that it was a cruel thing to tax colonies already taxed beyond their strength, and surrounded by enemies and exposed to constant expenditures for defence, and that it was an indignity that they should be taxed by a parliament in which they were not represented; at the same time the Pennsylvania assembly recognized it as " their duty to grant aid to the crown, according to their abilities, whenever required of them in the usual manner."

This is an arrangement recommended by one who has tried it, and he reassures the old-fashioned believer who clings to the less formal regime (and whose protest was voiced in the Montanist movement), that there will be no spiritual loss under the new system.

Thus the character of the Church as a state institution voiced itself in them.

The radical thought of this movement was voiced in the demand of Reinhold 2 that philosophy should " deduce " it all from a single principle and by a single method.

In the Phoenician alphabet Zain was the seventh letter, occupying the same position and having the same form approximately (i) as the early Greek Z, while in pronunciation it was a voiced s-sound; Samech () followed the 'symbol for n of and was the ordinary s-sound, though, as we have seen, e it is in different Greek states at the earliest period as well as E; after the symbol for p came Zade (v), which was a strong palatal s, though in name it corresponds to the Greek Nra; while lastly Shin (W) follows the symbol for r, and was an sh-sound.

Thus F came to be the representative of the unvoiced labiodental spirant instead of that for the bilabial voiced spirant.

There is some evidence which seems to point to a pronunciation of the voiced mutes which, like the South German pronunciation of g, d, b, but slightly differentiated them from the unvoiced mutes, so that confusion might easily arise.

The Etruscans, who were separated from the Romans only by the Tiber, gradually lost the voiced mutes.

This mysterious language, despite the existence of more than 6000 inscriptions, and the publication in 1892 of a book written in the language and handed down to us by the accident of its use to pack an Egyptian mummy, remains as obscure as ever, but apparently it underwent very great phonetic changes at an early period, so that the voiced mutes B, D, G disappeared.

Latin D; while the symbol for the voiced spirant o is doubled, it is difficult to believe that the symbol for the spirant g, viz.

The sounds of t and d are more dental than in English, though they vary; the voiced spirants are very soft; the voiceless nasals are aspirated, thus is similar to Eng.

These regulations also met the objections voiced by Australians and New Zealanders that the country won for Great Britain at such cost had been thrown open to hordes of Asiatics.

The history had a most extraordinary success, especially among the common people, owing, not to its scientific qualities, but to the fact that the author boldly and sternly sat in judgment upon men and events, and in his judgments voiced the feelings of the German nation in his day.

Speaking broadly the development was from rigour to indulgence, and the three schisms referred to voiced the protests of the puritan minority.

Though Montfort and the barons voiced the public discontent, the constitution which they thus imposed on the king had nothing popular about it.

Healy, voiced the general dislike in Ireland of the Budget of 1909, the rejection of which by the House of Lords had precipitated the dissolution of parliament.

The Hebrew and probably the Phoenician name for 0 was Ain (Ayin), and in the Semitic alphabet, which does not indicate vowels, the symbol stood for a "voiced glottal stop" and also for a "voiced velar spirant" (Zimmern).

The mutation started sometime after our births, Kris, Gabriel voiced.

Russia has expressed support for a freeze, while China has voiced concerns about lack of flexibility on the part of the US.

The phoneme /x / (voiceless) has a positional allophone [G] (voiced ).

Norma ensures that the needs of women cricketers are voiced within the Foundation with admirable clarity.

In the case of voiceless and voiced pairs, the voiceless consonant appears on the left hand side.

In Brussels, Poul Nielson, the European Union commissioner for development, voiced dismay at the text.

They say he never voiced disquiet or offered to resign.

In vowels and voiced fricatives, voicing obscures the aspiration and frication components.

In the first experiment, two vowels were compared with one voiced and one unvoiced fricative.

All the correspondents voiced serious misgivings regarding the perceived lack of regard to the original planning consent by the occupant of The Prospect.

But defense officials have voiced recent concern over a resurgence of attacks by al-Qaida and the Taleban.

Similarly ' t ' is an unvoiced dental plosive; ' d ' is a voiced dental plosive.

Dire warnings voiced at the birth of Zionism now sound prophetic.

Sinbad (voiced by Brad Pitt) is the most daring and notorious rogue ever to sail the seven seas.

Senior republican senators, including a Texan, publicly voiced their unease last week.

It will be voiced by a professional voice-over, we have access to hundreds, including celebrity voices by quotation.

The sound which the symbol represents is the voiced stop made by closing the lips and vibrating the vocal chords (see PHONETICS).

In .other cases the pronunciation can be ascertained only from the context, as in use, unvoiced for the substantive, voiced for the verb.