Word Finder - voices

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Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character

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His low voice allowed him to become a bass in the choir.

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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.

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The tone or sound emitted by an object

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The faculty or power of utterance

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to cultivate the voice

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That which is communicated; message; meaning.

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An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered

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Command; precept.

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One who speaks; a speaker.

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A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.

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(grammar) A particular way 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.

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The verbal system of Latin has two voices, active and passive.

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In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.

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The theme of this piece constantly migrates between the three voice parts.

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(IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel.

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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.

The sound of voices woke her.

Angry voices wove in and out of the crowd's jeering and the ringing of her ears.

Voices came from the conference room, whose door was open.

The voices rose again.

A chorus of voices yelled down, asking if there were survivors.

Vara shushed them as the sound of several voices drifted into the tack room.

Then the strains of the count's household band were replaced by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visitors, and the soft steps of the footmen.

The hypothesis of "two voices" is now generally abandoned; there is no indication of a debate, of affirmations and responses.

His brothers weren't any closer than they had been, but the sound of their voices made him realize how alone he'd really felt the past two weeks.

He thought he heard voices from somewhere.

The notables elect the provincial councillors in the proportion, usually, of one to every canton, and their delegates elect the chief of the canton, who voices the wishes of the natives to the government.

Irresistible drowsiness overpowered him, red rings danced before his eyes, and the impression of those voices and faces and a sense of loneliness merged with the physical pain.

The voices of her roommates drifted from the kitchen where they were preparing supper.

There were three then five voices with a sixth calling the police and the seventh hugging the sobbing kid.

First soprano's voices are usually a bit thinner.

Their voices warbled, until he set her down.

The voices down the hall were all male, though she doubted any of them were human.

Praetor ius's Cammerton, or chamber pitch, formulated in his diagrams for voices and instruments, is, he says, a whole tone higher; equivalent, therefore, to a' 475.65.

The very sense of dramatic fitness has temporarily vanished from public musical opinion, together with the sense of musical form, in consequence of another prevalent habit, that of presenting shapeless extracts from Wagner's operas as orchestral pieces without voices or textbooks or any hint that such adjuncts are desirable.

Carmen put a foot on the first step and then heard voices.

Before secure phones and dropped numbers and scrambled voices.

It did sound as if the Dawkins boys' temporary peace had come to an end, but Dean paid little heed to the raised voices.

Gabriel slowed his movements, quickly overwhelmed by the voices.

Everyone was exceptionally friendly as hundreds of bicyclists wandered about, chatting and smiling, with a hint of nervous excitement in their voices.

The voices of the blackfellows are musical.

The narrower term "orchestration" is applied to the instrumentation of orchestral music. Since the most obvious differences of timbre are in those of various instruments, the art which blends and contrasts timbre is most easily discussed as the treatment of instruments; but we must use this term with philosophic breadth and allow it to include voices.

The chords necessary in this part, which with its supporting bass is called the continuo, were indicated by figures; and the evanescent and delicate tones of the harpsichord; lent themselves admirably to this purpose where solo voices and instruments were concerned.

In three-part movements Palestrina presents us with twelve combinations of voices.

Later followed the appearance of lights; quasi-human voices; musical sounds, produced, it is said, without instruments; the "materialization" or presence in material form of what seemed to be human hands and faces, and ultimately of complete figures, alleged to be not those of any person present, and sometimes claimed by witnesses as deceased relatives; "psychography," or "direct writing and drawing," asserted to be done without human intervention; "spirit-photography," or the appearance on photographic plates of human and other forms when no counterpart was visible before the camera to any but specially endowed seers; 3 unfastening of cords and bonds; elongation of the medium's body; handling of red-hot coals; and the apparent passage of solids through solids without disintegration.

But the voices were not heard; and the princes proceeded at once to elect a lay ruler.

No one of these works is now known to be in existence; the only example we possess of Zarlino's compositions on a grand scale is a MS. mass for four voices, in the library of the Philharmonic Lyceum at Bologna.

Already in the opening passage mysterious voices are heard crying, "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people"; the plural indicates that there were other prophets among the exiles besides the author of Isa.

It is written for two choirs, the one of five and the other of four voices, and has obtained a celebrity which, if not entirely factitious, is certainly not due to its intrinsic merits alone.

He heard supernatural voices proclaiming mercy to the faithful, vengeance on the guilty, and mighty cries that the wrath of God was at hand.

The earliest effect of Hallam's death upon his friend's art was the composition, in the summer of 1834, of The Two Voices; and to the same period belong the beginnings of the Idylls of the King and of In Memoriam, over both of which he meditated long.

It was natural that warning voices should then be raised in the Church against secular tendencies, that the wellknown counsels about the imitation of Christ should be held up in their literal strictness before worldly Christians.

In 1850 he became vice-principal and Hebrew lecturer at St David's College, Lampeter, where he introduced muchneeded educational and financial reforms. He was appointed select preacher of Cambridge University in 1854, and preached a sermon on inspiration, afterwards published in his Rational Godliness after the Mind of Christ and the Written Voices of the Church (London, 1855).

His Wail of a Protected Manufacturer voices a protest against protection as raising the cost of living; and he hjld that free trade was based on a natural right.

Society was organized in most cases on animal clans, and religion was largely zoomorphic. The hunting tribes knew well the nature and habits of animals, their anatomy, their migrations, and could interpret their voices.

Thus Helmholtz explains the jarring and braying which are sometimes heard in bass voices.

Voices were not lacking which, in view of Austria's relatively small share in foreign investments, ascribed the deterioration of the trade balance to the fact that the public bodies were " living beyond their means."

A characteristic peculiarity of the process is that the claims of the Roman see were always in advance of the actual facts and always encountered opposition; though there were many periods - at the height of the middle ages, for instance - when the voices raised in protest were only timid and hesitating.

The presiding officers were at first the kings, but in historical times the ephors, and the voting was conducted by shouts; if the president was doubtful as to the majority of voices, a division was taken and the votes were counted.

An only son, late born, seeing no companions of his own age, hearing nothing but the voices of his parents and the hymns and prayers in the little Calvinist chapel, Arany grew up a grave and gentle, but by no means an ignorant child.

Then followed an interval of wars during which the Pacifists were unable to raise their voices.

And yet dissentient voices are sometimes heard defending war as if it were an end in itself.

We also catch the god himself at the work of consecration in tales of voices heard from heaven or of birds alighting on favoured heads.

Their voices are full, deep and powerful.

Voices were heard by night in the streets of Edinburgh calling down judgment on the assassins.

Like our Scottish stags at the rutting season, they roar loudest in cold frosty nights; but on no occasions are their voices to be heard in such perfection, or so intensely powerful, as when two or three troops of strange lions approach a fountain to drink at the same time.