It is one thing to give an impulse to breath alone,
another thing to vocalize that breath. --Holder.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
vocalize — index communicate, enunciate, observe (remark), phrase, pronounce (speak), remark Burton s Legal The … Law dictionary
vocalize — (v.) 1660s, from VOCAL (Cf. vocal) + IZE (Cf. ize). Related: Vocalized; vocalizing … Etymology dictionary
vocalize — (Amer.) vo·cal·ize || vəʊkÉ™laɪz v. produce a sound; pronounce a consonant as a vowel; sing; express a feeling or opinion out loud; mark an unvowelled text with vowel marks (also vocalise) … English contemporary dictionary
vocalize — [v] put into words or song belt out*, canary*, chant, chirp, communicate, convey, croon, emit, enunciate, express, give out*, groan, impart, let out*, moan, pronounce, say, shout, sing, sound, speak, talk, utter, vent, verbalize, voice, warble,… … New thesaurus
vocalize — (also vocalise) ► VERB 1) utter (a sound or word). 2) express (something) with words. 3) Music sing with several notes to one vowel. DERIVATIVES vocalization noun … English terms dictionary
vocalize — [vō′kəl īz΄] vt. vocalized, vocalizing 1. a) to give utterance to; express with the voice; speak or sing b) to make capable of vocal expression; make vocal, or articulate 2. to add diacritical vowel marks to (the exclusively consonantal… … English World dictionary
vocalize — [[t]vo͟ʊkəlaɪz[/t]] vocalizes, vocalizing, vocalized (in BRIT, also use vocalise) 1) VERB If you vocalize a feeling or an idea, you express it in words. [V n] Archbishop Hunthausen also vocalized his beliefs that women and homosexuals should be… … English dictionary
vocalize — Point Point (point), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pointed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pointing}.] [Cf. F. pointer. See {Point}, n.] 1. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end; as, to point a dart, or a pencil. Used also… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
vocalize — UK [ˈvəʊkəlaɪz] / US [ˈvoʊk(ə)lˌaɪz] verb [transitive] Word forms vocalize : present tense I/you/we/they vocalize he/she/it vocalizes present participle vocalizing past tense vocalized past participle vocalized to sing or say something with your… … English dictionary
vocalize — verb /ˈvoʊ.kə.laɪz/ a) 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… … Wiktionary
