Word Meanings - VOCALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization. 2. A vocalic sound.

Related words: (words related to VOCALISM)

• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• EXERCISE
  exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• VOCALIST
  A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• VOCALLY
  1. In a vocal manner; with voice; orally; with audible sound. 2. In words; verbally; as, to express desires vocally.
• VOCALIZATION
  1. The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized. 2. The formation and utterance of vocal sounds.
• VOCALITY
  1. The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance; as, the vocality of the letters. 2. The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character.
• SOUNDING BALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• SOUND-BOARD
  A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
• SOUNDING-BOARD
  A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. 2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. 3. pl.
• SOUNDABLE
  Capable of being sounded.
• VOCALIZE
  1. To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to. It is one thing to give an impulse to breath alone, another thing to vocalize that breath. Holder. 2. To practice singing on the vowel sounds.
• VOCALNESS
  The quality of being vocal; vocality.
• SOUNDAGE
  Dues for soundings.
• EXERCISER
  One who exercises.
• VOCAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices. To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song. Milton. 2. Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody;
• VOCALISM
  1. The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization. 2. A vocalic sound.
• SOUND
  The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• UNEQUIVOCAL
  Not equivocal; not doubtful; not ambiguous; evident; sincere; plain; as, unequivocal evidence; unequivocal words. -- Un`e*quiv"o*cal*ly, adv. -- Un`e*quiv"o*cal*ness, n.
• MULTIVOCAL
  Signifying many different things; of manifold meaning; equivocal. "An ambiguous multivocal word." Coleridge. -- n.
• EQUIVOCALLY
  In an equivocal manner.
• DEVOCALIZE
  To make toneless; to deprive of vowel quality. -- De*vo`cal*i*za"tion, n. If we take a high vowel, such as , and devocalize it, we obtain a hiss which is quite distinct enough to stand for a weak . H. Sweet.
• SUBVOCAL
  See SUBTONIC