英语词汇“voicelessness”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

voice /vois/

noun

Sound produced by the vocal organs of living beings, esp of human beings in speech or song

Sound given out by anything

The faculty or power of speech or song

The ability to sing, esp well

A mode of utterance

The quality and range of musical sounds produced by a singer

A singer

A part for a singer, or one of the parts in an instrumental composition

Utterance, expression

Someone who speaks

Sound uttered with resonance of the vocal cords (phonetics)

A mode of inflecting verbs to indicate their relationship with the subject (grammar; see active, passive, and middle)

An expressed wish or opinion

A vote, approval

A medium of expression

Something said (obsolete)

Rumour, report, reputation (obsolete)

transitive verb

To utter (rare)

To give utterance or expression to

To regulate the tone of (music)

To write the voice parts of

To utter with vibration of the vocal cords (phonetics)

To endow with voice

To act as mouthpiece of (rare)

To rumour or esp (in impers construction) to be rumoured or commonly stated (obsolete)

To speak of (obsolete)

To acclaim (obsolete)

To nominate, appoint, elect (obsolete)

ORIGIN: Anglo-Fr voiz, voice (Fr voix), from L vōx, vōcis; related to Gr epos a word

voiced adjective

Endowed with voice

Having a voice of a specified kind

Uttered with voice (phonetics)

voiceˈful adjective

Having a voice

Vocal (with with)

Full of sound

voiceˈfulness noun

voiceˈless adjective

Having no voice

Speechless, silent

Unspoken

Failing to, or unable to, express one's opinion or desire, or to make this felt

Having no vote

Not voiced (phonetics)

voiceˈlessness noun

voicˈer noun

voicˈing noun

The regulation of the tone of organ pipes, ensuring proper power, pitch, and quality

voice box noun

The larynx

voice mail or voiceˈmail noun (telecommunications)

A system by which telephone messages can be stored in a central location and picked up by the addressee at their convenience

voiceˈ-mail adjective

Voice of America noun

An international broadcasting service funded by the US government

voiceˈ-over noun

The background voice of an unseen narrator in a film, etc

voiceˈprint noun

An electronically recorded visual representation of speech indicating frequency, amplitude and duration

voice recognition noun

The identification of a human speaker by a computer (which compares their voice with sounds stored in its memory) before it carries out an instruction, allows access, etc

voice response noun

Output from a computer in the form of synthesized speech rather than a visual display

voice synthesis noun

The ability of a computer to produce simulated speech from sounds stored in its memory

voice vote noun

A vote judged on the relative strengths of the shouted ayes and noes

give voice to

To express

in good voice or in voice

In good condition for singing or speaking

in my voice (Shakespeare)

In my name

with one voice

Unanimously