(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.
Yodel
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) Alt. of Yodle
(n.) Alt. of Yodle
Example Sentences:
(1) They rightly perceive that there is a better chance that retailers can get it to them there.” James Daunt, chief executive of the bookstore chain Waterstones , said its online deliveries were being delayed by “one or two days” as a result of problems at its courier service, Yodel, which has been overwhelmed with demand from the retailers it serves.
(2) But they are easy to miss amid the glut of MOR crooners – Nat King Cole, Pat Boone, Mel Torme, Frank Ifield yodeling his way through Hank Williams's Lovesick Blues – and the sound of the Joe Loss Orchestra.
(3) On Thursday delivery firm Yodel also admitted to problems with a backlog of deliveries and temporarily halted pick-ups from retailers.
(4) People will opt for that as they are guaranteed their item rather than relying on the likes of Yodel.” Demand for click and collect is growing ahead of the online retail market, which was expected to increase by 22% this year with 930m parcels dispatched.
(5) 7.37pm GMT “Evening Ian,” yodels Simon McMahon.
(6) Kesha, the pop star who first rose to fame with the loopily yodeled party hit Tik Tok in 2009, appeared to suffer a severe legal setback last Friday .
(7) There had been female singers in country music before – the indefatigably yodelling Patsy Montana; Molly O'Day, all gingham and tears; the regal Sara Carter – but they always required the presence of male protectors: singing husbands or an all-male backing band.
(8) Austria election: far-right candidate and rival tied at 50% in exit poll Read more His campaign videos have featured some unabashed yodelling, his speeches have often referred to the attachment he feels to his Tyrolean H eimat (homeland), and he has repeatedly stressed the social duties and obligation to integrate of Austria’s 90,000 newly arrived refugees.
(9) Morrissey had started yodelling by then, and he'd get down on his shoulders and put his legs straight into the air.
(10) In the Hermes and Yodel model, they only get paid once.” Nicholson said Hermes’ rising profitability “is on the back of the lifestyle couriers who have had little or no increase in what they get per parcel for the last three years”.
(11) Marks & Spencer , Tesco, Debenhams and Argos have all warned of delivery delays in the wake of Black Friday, while courier company Yodel has admitted that it had stopped collecting parcels from retailers because it was struggling to cope with the volume of goods being bought online.
(12) Hermes couriers, alongside workers at the Royal Mail’s ParcelForce and other companies such as Yodel, are the footsoldiers of the internet shopping boom.
(13) This slow frequency change relaxed back to baseline following a biexponential time course which closely resembled that of a distinct behavior seen in intact fish, termed 'yodeling' (Dye 1987).
(14) The second behavior, which we have termed a 'yodel', is distinct from and kinetically intermediate to chirping and the JAR.
(15) Some Amazon customers in Britain are facing the prospect of orders failing to arrive in time for Christmas following the inability of courier companies such as Yodel to cope with a surge in online shopping.
(16) Yodel, with 8,000 couriers, operates a similar system.
(17) It was the second worst performer in the survey, behind Yodel.
(18) "About eleven o'clock, Lucille Henderson, observing that her party was soaring at the proper height, and just having been smiled at by Jack Delroy, forced herself to glance over in the direction of Edna Phillips, who since eight o'clock had been sitting in the big red chair, smoking cigarettes and yodelling hellos and wearing a very bright eye which young men were not bothering to catch," writes Salinger.
(19) These studies compare the pitch perturbations during the crescendo and decrescendo of a swell-tone, and show typical traces of staccato, thrill and yodel.
(20) 'Yodeling' (Dye 1987) appears to involve similar, characteristic changes in the pattern of firing as those seen during chirping.