voice

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. vocality; speaking or singing voice; inflection, intonation; tone of voice; ventriloquism, ventriloquy; lung power; vocal cords, vocalization (see speech); cry, expression, utterance, vociferation, enunciation, articulation; accent[uation]; emphasis, stress; singer (see music); representation, vote, participation (see choice). — v. t. speak, utter; give voice, utterance, or tongue to; shout, cry, exclaim, ejaculate; express; vocalize, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, enounce, announce; accentuate; deliver, mouth. See publication.

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(Roget's IV) n.

1. [A vocal sound]

Syn. speech, sound, call, cry, utterance, tongue, whistle, moan, groan, song, yell, hail, howl, yowl, bark, whine, whimper, mutter, murmur, shout, bleat, bray, neigh, whinny, roar, trumpet, cluck, honk, meow, hiss, quack; see also noise 1 .

Ant. silence*, dumbness, deaf-mutism.

2. [Approval or opinion]

Syn. decision, wish, view; see choice 1 , opinion 1 .

• with one voice,

Syn. all together, by unanimous vote, without dissent; see unanimously .

v.

Syn. assert, cry, sound, utter; see talk 1 , tell 1 .

See Synonym Study at utter .

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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

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n.

1. speech power of speech, vocal power, vocal cords, tongue. ''An arrow for the heart. —Lord Byron. ''A second face. —Gerard Bauer.

WORD FIND

• descriptive: alto, baritone, bass, bellowing, booming, breathy, cackling, childish, cracking, croaking, cultured, deep, drawling, droning, falsetto, faltering, feeble, flat, fluting, gargling, gravel, guttural, harsh, hoarse, hollow, hushed, husky, inflectionless, lilting, lisping, monotone, nasal twang, powerful, ponderous, purring, quavering, rasping, reedy, resonant, robust, scabrous, sensuous, Shakespearian actor’s, sharp, shrill, singsong, soothing, soprano, spluttering, squawking, squeaky, stentorian, strangled, subterranean, sultry, tenor, thick, thin, throaty, thunderous, tremulous, velvety, warbling, wheezing, whining, whiskey-voiced.

• loss of: aphonia

• loud: megalophonic, megalophonous

• organ: larynx, vocal cords, voicebox

• pertaining to: phonetic

• pitch, variation in: modulation, inflection

• quality: timbre

• voiceless: mute

see sing, speech

2. say vote, choice, opinion, *two cents worth, part to play, preference.

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v.

express, articulate, say, verbalize, state, announce, air, vocalize, utter, communicate, put into words, sound off, vent.

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(Roget's Thesaurus II) I noun 1. A person who sings: singer, songster, songstress, vocalist. See PERFORMING ARTS. 2. The act or an instance of expressing in words: articulation, expression, statement, utterance, verbalization, vocalization. See WORDS. 3. The right or chance to express an opinion or participate in a decision: say, suffrage, vote. Informal: say-so. See PARTICIPATE. II verb To put into words: articulate, communicate, convey, declare, express, say, state, talk, tell, utter1, vent, verbalize, vocalize. Idiom: give tongue (or vent or voice) to. See WORDS.