vocabilityn.

Brit.

/ˌvəʊkəˈbɪlᵻti/,

/ˌvɒkəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S.

/ˌvoʊkəˈbɪlᵻdi/,

/ˌvɑkəˈbɪlᵻdi/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: vocable adj., -ity suffix.

Etymology: < vocable adj. + -ity suffix: see -bility suffix.

Somewhat rare.

1. The capacity to produce or utter sounds, words, etc.; (also) the quality of being vocal (in sense 8a); noisiness.

ΚΠ

1827 W. Hamilton Oration delivered in Afr. Zion Church 16 I would have you discountenance that loud vocability of gabble, that too much characterizes us in the street.

1839 Mirror Lit., Amusem., & Instr. 26 Jan. 55/2 The Greek method of personifying inanimate objects, and enduing stock and stone with powers of utterance and vocability.

1907 Med. Press & Circular 16 Oct. 405/2 We confess that this ‘vocable revolt’ on the part of the public has till now not reached our ears, though there has been some vocability and even revolt on the part of the medical profession at the way they have been treated by the public.

2001 B. L. Estrin Amer. Love Lyric after Auschwitz & Hiroshima iii. 99 When male poets ventriloquize the woman's complaint, they voice their own desire for an earlier vocability.

†2. A spoken or shouted remark or sentence. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken

speechc897

saw9..

speech971

wordOE

quideOE

wordsOE

wordOE

thingOE

rouna1225

mouthc1225

queatha1250

breathc1300

reasonc1300

speakingsa1325

swarec1325

saying1340

voicec1350

lorea1375

sermonc1385

carpc1400

gear1415

utterancec1454

parol1474

ditty1483

say1571

said1578

dictumc1586

palabra1600

breathing1606

bringinga1616

elocution?1637

rumblea1680

elocutive1821

vocability1841

deliverance1845

deliverment1850

deliverancy1853

verbalization1858

voicing1888

sayable1937

1841 Bentley's Misc. 7 637 At the time of the Reform Bill, their vocabilities had a still more personal tendency.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	vocability
释义	vocabilityn. Brit. /ˌvəʊkəˈbɪlᵻti/, /ˌvɒkəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˌvoʊkəˈbɪlᵻdi/, /ˌvɑkəˈbɪlᵻdi/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: vocable adj., -ity suffix. Etymology: < vocable adj. + -ity suffix: see -bility suffix. Somewhat rare. 1. The capacity to produce or utter sounds, words, etc.; (also) the quality of being vocal (in sense 8a); noisiness. ΚΠ 1827 W. Hamilton Oration delivered in Afr. Zion Church 16 I would have you discountenance that loud vocability of gabble, that too much characterizes us in the street. 1839 Mirror Lit., Amusem., & Instr. 26 Jan. 55/2 The Greek method of personifying inanimate objects, and enduing stock and stone with powers of utterance and vocability. 1907 Med. Press & Circular 16 Oct. 405/2 We confess that this ‘vocable revolt’ on the part of the public has till now not reached our ears, though there has been some vocability and even revolt on the part of the medical profession at the way they have been treated by the public. 2001 B. L. Estrin Amer. Love Lyric after Auschwitz & Hiroshima iii. 99 When male poets ventriloquize the woman's complaint, they voice their own desire for an earlier vocability. †2. A spoken or shouted remark or sentence. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken speechc897 saw9.. speech971 wordOE quideOE wordsOE wordOE thingOE rouna1225 mouthc1225 queatha1250 breathc1300 reasonc1300 speakingsa1325 swarec1325 saying1340 voicec1350 lorea1375 sermonc1385 carpc1400 gear1415 utterancec1454 parol1474 ditty1483 say1571 said1578 dictumc1586 palabra1600 breathing1606 bringinga1616 elocution?1637 rumblea1680 elocutive1821 vocability1841 deliverance1845 deliverment1850 deliverancy1853 verbalization1858 voicing1888 sayable1937 1841 Bentley's Misc. 7 637 At the time of the Reform Bill, their vocabilities had a still more personal tendency. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1827
随便看	to turn round to turn round and say to turn round and say something to turn round one's finger to turn round one's little finger to turn rusty to turn short to turn short round to turn show the whites of one's eyes to turn sides to turn snitch to turn something on its ear to turn something on its head to turn something up to eleven to turn sour to turn sour on a person to turn stag to turn stomach to turn tail to turn the air blue to turn the back to turn the back upon to turn the balance to turn the beam to turn the best side outward