Vocal
['vəʊk(ə)l] or ['vokl]
Definition
(adj.) full of the sound of voices; 'a playground vocal with the shouts and laughter of children' .
(adj.) having or using the power to produce speech or sound; 'vocal organs'; 'all vocal beings hymned their praise' .
(adj.) relating to or designed for or using the singing voice; 'vocal technique'; 'the vocal repertoire'; 'organized a vocal group to sing his compositions' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.
(a.) Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, /poken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds.
(a.) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See Voice, and Vowel, also Guide to Pronunciation, // 199-202.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel.
(n.) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal.
(n.) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.
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Examples
- Until Edison made his wonderful invention in 1877, the human race was entirely without means for preserving or passing on to posterity its own linguistic utterances or any other vocal sound. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The sounds produced by the vocal cords are transformed into speech by the help of the tongue and lips, which modify the shape of the mouth cavity. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- His father was a teacher of vocal physiology at Edinburgh, and he himself became a teacher of deaf mutes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The birds use their vocal cords to beautiful advantage in singing, far surpassing us in many ways, but the power of speech is lacking. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Then it operates to call out mechanical reactions, ability to use the vocal organs to repeat statements, or the hand to write or to do sums. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The lips and vocal organs, and the hands, have to be used to reproduce in speech and writing what has been stowed away. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A piano gives out sound whenever a player strikes the keys and sets in motion the various wires within the piano; speech and song are caused by the motion of chest, vocal cords, and lips. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The difference between a soprano and an alto voice is merely one of length and tension of the vocal cords. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Three other sirens made to give vocal sounds or articulate speech. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The start is from native activities of the vocal apparatus, organs of hearing, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- After the coming of the Aryans into Greece, the vocal element became stronger in these proceedings, and thrust into the dance came a recitation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Successful singing is possible only when the vocal cords are readily flexible and when the singer can supply a steady, continuous blast of air through the slit between the cords. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- His School of Vocal Physiology had had to be abandoned, and he found that his only pupils were Miss Hubbard and small George Sanders. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Then, signior, I lay on you my sovereign behest to furbish up your lungs and other vocal organs, as they will be wanted on my royal service. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Boston University offered him a professorship, and he opened a School of Vocal Physiology, which paid him well. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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