vocalize
verbUS /ˈvoʊ.kə.laɪz/
Etymology From vocal + -ize.
1
To express with the voice, to utter.
- Following the modern spirit, the real poems of the present, ever solidifying and expanding into the future, must vocalize the vastness and splendor and reality with which scientism has invested man and the universe,[…]1876, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, preface to the 1876 edition:
2
Of animals To produce noises or calls from the throat.
- We could hear the monkeys vocalizing, though we could not see them.
3
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music To sing without using words.
4
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences To turn a consonant into a vowel.
- In Hong Kong English, /l/ may be vocalized at the end of a syllable.
5
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Dated To make a sound voiced rather than voiceless.
6
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)
- Synonyms
- outspeak
- Derived terms
- vocalization