单词 | vocalized |
释义 | vocalizedadj. 1. a. That is or has been vocalized (in various senses of the verb). ΚΠ 1773 J. Herries Elements Speech ii. ii. 109 When we speak through a long winding vault, the stream of vocalized air (if I may so call it) being dashed from side to side, is much more sonorous than when we speak in the open fields. 1855 R. Lepsius Standard Alphabet 35 French j. This letter is the soft and vocalised sound. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 7 Oct. 3/1 The sweetest and most delicately vocalised dialect in Britain. 1946 Child Devel. 17 148 The breadth and richness of vocalized sounds. 1984 New York 29 Oct. 85/1 The same seesaw arpeggios, regulation thumping rhythms, vocalized scales, and simple-minded repetitiveness indicate that Glass may have reached the end of his limited resources and can think of nowhere else to go. 2012 New Yorker 26 Mar. 49/1 The words are more like vocalized beats than like lyrics, and they don't communicate meaning so much as feeling and attitude. b. spec. Of text or a writing system: provided with vowels or signs representing vowels; esp. (of Hebrew, Arabic, etc.) written or supplied with vowel points. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [adjective] > characterized by vocalized1838 vocalic1851 1838 C. W. Wall Ess. Nature, Age, & Origin Sanscrit 29 The Sanscrit syllabary could not have been derived from any of the Shemitic kinds of vocalized writing. 1892 T. A. Reed Shorthand Writer viii. 61 The transcript itself should be written in a moderately vocalized Shorthand for the compositors. 1928 Amer. Jrnl. Semitic Langs. & Lit. 44 208 Thirteen centuries..lie between the date when Hebrew passed out of general usage and the oldest existing vocalized Hebrew texts. 1954 T. W. Thacker Semitic & Egyptian Verbal Syst. viii. 128 Hebrew is the only one of the three Canaanite dialects to employ (only in later times) a fully vocalized script. 2008 Jewish Q. Rev. 98 196 Codices on whose pages annotations could be as unproblematically written as the vocalized Torah text itself. 2. Jazz. With reference to the tone of an instrument: made to resemble that of the human voice. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [adjective] > resembling voice vocalized1958 1958 J. Aldam in P. Gammond Duke Ellington iii. 200 One of the greatest New Orleans clarinettists..he [sc. Barney Bigard] plays with a warm, vocalized tone, full of inflections and long glissandi. 1961 John o' London's 7 Dec. 637/1 The great jazz instrumentalists have based their styles on what is known as the ‘vocalised’ tone. 1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 18 Emphasis is placed on the quality of blues singing and the ‘vocalised tone’ of jazz instrumentation. 2016 Washington Post (Nexis) 23 Feb. c3 Meantime, the trombonist achieved a masterful balance... His solo consisted of a vocalized line somewhere between a warble and a gargle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1773 |
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