What's the difference between voice and vox?

Voice


Definition:

  • (n.) Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The tone or sound emitted by anything.
  • (n.) The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the voice.
  • (n.) Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion.
  • (n.) Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote.
  • (n.) Command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural language.
  • (n.) One who speaks; a speaker.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce; to divulge; as, to voice the sentiments of the nation.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
  • (v. t.) To vote; to elect; to appoint.
  • (v. i.) To clamor; to cry out.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
  • (2) But Lee is mostly just extremely fed up at the exclusion of sex workers’ voices from much of the conversation.
  • (3) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
  • (4) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
  • (5) The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental frequency distribution, the standard deviation of the rate of change of the voice fundamental frequency and the average speed of voice change were found to correlate to the clinical state of the patient.
  • (6) Activists in the country are pushing to get their voices heard ahead of Sunday's race.
  • (7) Will the United fans' eternal favourite soon add his voice to that of 140,000 fans?
  • (8) Obviously it’s good to have all voices on the field.
  • (9) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
  • (10) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
  • (11) Hebrew for voice of justice, Kol Tzedek was described in publicity at the time as "an outreach program aimed at helping sex-crime victims in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish Communities report abuse".
  • (12) Remember, if he did seize group power and dispose of the Independent , he'd still be boss of the rest of INM: 200 or so papers and magazines around the world, dominant voices in Australasia, South Africa, India and Ireland itself, 100 million readers a week.
  • (13) I'm just saying, in your … Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” The male voice singles out Magic Johnson, the retired basketball star and investor: "Don't put him on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me.
  • (14) Giving voice to that sentiment the mass-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea dedicated its front-page editorial to what it hoped would soon be the group's demise, describing Alexopoulos' desertion as a "positive development".
  • (15) Another source inside the centre, quoted earlier on the Detained Voices blog, said detainees had banged on their doors throughout the lockdown.
  • (16) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.
  • (17) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.
  • (18) I said, ''It's the fake femininity I can't stand, and the counterfeit voice.
  • (19) he asked in a low voice, referring to the Sunni insurgents sweeping across northern Iraq .
  • (20) People praying, voicing their views and heart, were met with disdain and a level of force exceeding what was needed.

Vox


Definition:

  • (n.) A voice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bell made the comment in response to a blogpost from Emily Bell , in which the Guardian columnist claimed that "the great VC‑backed media blitz of 2014", including Vox, FiveThirtyEight and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media, is being led almost exclusively by white males as it ostensibly aims to reform journalism.
  • (2) Only about 200,000 people have reportedly opted for the current version of the program , according to Vox, although 17.5m people qualify.
  • (3) On a side note, wasn't that the same year we had Gazza doing vox pops with drunken groups of England fans in the streets?
  • (4) As half an hour of vox-poppery proves, this is also a place where the supposedly rarefied issue of electoral reform may actually come up on the proverbial doorstep.
  • (5) "I would attribute the rise of FiveThirtyEight and Vox and all of these different sites to the fact that there is just an opportunity to do different journalism right now," Bell says.
  • (6) (Vox Sang 1989; 56: 145-150) have shown that it is possible to prepare clinically effective platelet concentrates with substantially reduced white cell contamination, whilst maintaining satisfactory levels of factor VIII:C after holding whole blood at 20 degrees C overnight.
  • (7) The vox pop – that spurious journalistic conceit – lets reporters seek out quotes to confirm each one's opinions (or for the BBC, just a meaningless one of each).
  • (8) Callie Schweitzer , Director of Marketing and Communications, Vox media The most important message I took from Lean In and how Sheryl described the women's movement was that it's not up to any one individual to change things for women, it's up to all of us.
  • (9) Designtex’s new Vox line, the first style in the Climatex® Dualcycle™ collection Photograph: Designtex Wool and synthetic hybrid Natural and synthetic fibres are typically not woven together in sustainable fabric design, because it can be difficult to pull them apart at the end of use phase, said Deidre Hoguet, director of sustainability and materials exploration at Designtex.
  • (10) Do I expect them to appreciate the sexually terroristic satires of Sade, or the erogenous verse of Sappho and Catullus, or Nicholson Baker's comical romp Vox?
  • (11) (If you are interested in the specifics of that, Vox has published a useful backgrounder over this past weekend.)
  • (12) The company announced this month that they've created a new line, Vox, from their hybrid material called Climatex® Dualcycle™ that combines both wool and a technically produced synthetic.
  • (13) Twitter is not the vox populi; it is a very effective way of getting a point across to a journalist.
  • (14) Designtex's Vox fabric styles will be available for purchase in September.
  • (15) After chiding the justices in Aereo, Vox's Tim Lee argued it's actually a good thing the justices are not technically savvy, because it allows them to see the bigger picture, citing that they have "done a remarkably good job of crafting a sensible body of patent and copyright laws in the past few decades".
  • (16) He said: “The sans-culottes popular uprising was against a stifling bureaucratic ancient regime whose democratic credentials had become very far from obvious.” He continued: “We can all agree vox populi is vox Dei, in other words the people then, as now, must be respected.” He also gave a commitment that French people living in the UK would be allowed to remain as long as the rights of British people in Europe were respected in a reciprocal way.
  • (17) Nuns, teenagers, a rabbi, a brass band, Justin Butcher – the vigorous choirmaster of the community choir Vox Holloway – and a group of Whitehall cleaners came together in Wesley's cafe in Westminster Central Hall to celebrate a rare victory.
  • (18) Crude extracts from Salvia sclarea seeds were known to contain a lectin which specifically agglutinates Tn erythrocytes (Bird, G. W. G., and Wingham, G. (1974) Vox Sang.
  • (19) It’s hard for him to prove that to everybody because of how insistent Taylor is that everything that they do with each other is photographed.” Vox dissected the commentary thus : “Somehow, as many angry observers implied, Hiddleston, and his smooth-as-silk British accent, was supposed to be better than this … and, by proxy, deserving of someone better than Swift.” A series of aggressive tweets from her ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris sent thousands of people to Swift’s Instagram to leave a snake emoji.
  • (20) At Vox, the female hire making early headlines with Klein’s departure was his co-founder Melissa Bell, a back-end publishing expert whose work for Klein’s Wonkblog was “unglamorous but considered vital” .

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