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Voice
VOICE, n. [L. vox; voco. The sense of the verb is to throw, to drive out sound; and voice is that which is driven out.]
1. Sound or audible noise uttered by the mouth, either of human beings or of other animals. We say, the voice of a man is loud or clear; the voice of a woman is soft or musical; the voice of a dog is loud or harsh; the voice of a bird is sweet or melodious. The voice of human beings is articulate; that of beasts, inarticulate. The voices of men are different, and when uttered together, are often dissonant.
2. Any sound made by the breath; as the trumpet's voice.
3. A vote; suffrage; opinion or choice expressed. Originally voice was the oral utterance of choice, but it now signifies any vote however given.
Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice of holy senates, and elect by voice.
I have no words; my voice is in my sword.
4. Language; words; expression.
Let us call on God in the voice of his church.
5. In Scripture, command; precept.
Ye would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God. Deu 8.
6. Sound.
After the fire, a still small voice. 1 Ki 19.
Canst thou thunder with a voice like him? Job 40.
The floods have lifted up their voice. Psa 93.
7. Language; tone; mode of expression.
I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice. Gal 4.
8. In grammar, a particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs; as the active voice; the passive voice.
VOICE, v.t.
1. To rumor; to report.
It was voiced that the king purposed to put to death Edward Plantagenet. [Little used.]
2. To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
3. To vote.
VOICE, v.i. To clamor; to exclaim. Obs.
voice appears in definitions for these words:
Accent Accompaniment Accord Acoustic Action Aloud Amphictyons Angry Antiphonal Antiphony Aphony Applause Arpeggio Articulate Articulation Attend Attune Audible Auricularly Avocate Avocation Avouch Barytone Base Beware Bid Bird-cage Blood Breasted Buzz Cacophony Cadency Cadenza Call Canon Cant Cantata Cardinal Cast Casting-voice Castrato Catachresis Catch Catechist Chant Chanted Chanticleer Chanting Chirp Chuck Circumflex Clamor Clear Cluck Clucking Commend Compass Conceivable Concent Conciliate Confuse Conjugate Conjugation Consonant Constrain Convocate Convoke Corporate Counterfeit Country Crack Cricket Croak Crow Crowing Cry Crying Dance Dancing Day Deaf Deep-mouthed Deliberative Descant Disembogue Dissuade Drawl Drink Drown Dysphony Elegy Elephantiasis Elevate Elevation Emphasis Emphasize Emphatic Enchanting Epiphany Epiphonem Eruption Euphony Exalt Exclaim Exclamation Explore Expression Faint Faintly Fall Falsetto Falteringly Feeble Feebleness Flatter Formal Forte Frog Full Full-mouthed Gastriloquist Gentle Giggle Glad Gladden Gleam Glory Glottis Groan Grum Grumble Guttural H Halleluiah Halloo Harp Harsh Harshness Hear Heigh-ho Hem High Highness Hippopotamus Hoarse Hoarsely Hoarseness Hubbub Hum Human Inarticulateness Inaudible Inflect Inflecting Inflection Instrumental Intonation Join Killdee Kimbo Lamentation Larynx Lift Look Loud Loudness Low Lowness Lung Majesty Management Manly Mastery Mellifluent Melodious Melody Mildness Mimesis Mirth Moan Modulate Modulation Modulator Monotonously Monotony Mortal Mouth Mouthed Mouthing Movingly Mumble Mumbled Mumbler Mumbling Murmur Murmuring Music Music-book Musical Mute Mutter Muttered Muttering Mutteringly Negative Neigh Never Nose Note Ostracize Parrot Pause Personification Phonology Pipe Plaintful Point Polyphonic Popular Port Positive Prompt Quachilto Quarrel Quaver Quavering Querulous Racket Raise Raucity Rebound Recognize Rejoicing Resound Rest Reverberate Ring Rise Rook Scale Scream Screaming Screech See Send Serenade Set Sharp Shout Shrieking Shrill Shrillness Shrilly Sibilant Signify Silver Sing Small Smallness Snicker Snigger Soft Soften Solitary Solo Sonata Song Sonorous Sonorousness Sound Sounding-board Speaking-trumpet Squeak Squeaking Squeal Squealing Start Stentorian Stentorophonic Stride Strong Stun Suffrage Suppress Surcease Sweep Sweet Sweetness Syllable Symphony T Tabor Tale Tell Tenor Their There Thunder Tone Tremble Trill Tumult Tune Twang Tymbal Undiscording Unison Varnish Ventriloquism Ventriloquy Verse Vizier Vocal Vocality Vocalize Vocalized Vocalizing Vocally Vocation Vociferate Vociferating Vociferation Voice Voiced Voiceless Volume Vote Wappe Warble Warbling Weak Whimper Whimpering Whippowil Whisper Whispered Whispering Whisperingly Whoop Womanish Wondrous Word
Accent Accompaniment Accord Acoustic Action Aloud Amphictyons Angry Antiphonal Antiphony Aphony Applause Arpeggio Articulate Articulation Attend Attune Audible Auricularly Avocate Avocation Avouch Barytone Base Beware Bid Bird-cage Blood Breasted Buzz Cacophony Cadency Cadenza Call Canon Cant Cantata Cardinal Cast Casting-voice Castrato Catachresis Catch Catechist Chant Chanted Chanticleer Chanting Chirp Chuck Circumflex Clamor Clear Cluck Clucking Commend Compass Conceivable Concent Conciliate Confuse Conjugate Conjugation Consonant Constrain Convocate Convoke Corporate Counterfeit Country Crack Cricket Croak Crow Crowing Cry Crying Dance Dancing Day Deaf Deep-mouthed Deliberative Descant Disembogue Dissuade Drawl Drink Drown Dysphony Elegy Elephantiasis Elevate Elevation Emphasis Emphasize Emphatic Enchanting Epiphany Epiphonem Eruption Euphony Exalt Exclaim Exclamation Explore Expression Faint Faintly Fall Falsetto Falteringly Feeble Feebleness Flatter Formal Forte Frog Full Full-mouthed Gastriloquist Gentle Giggle Glad Gladden Gleam Glory Glottis Groan Grum Grumble Guttural H Halleluiah Halloo Harp Harsh Harshness Hear Heigh-ho Hem High Highness Hippopotamus Hoarse Hoarsely Hoarseness Hubbub Hum Human Inarticulateness Inaudible Inflect Inflecting Inflection Instrumental Intonation Join Killdee Kimbo Lamentation Larynx Lift Look Loud Loudness Low Lowness Lung Majesty Management Manly Mastery Mellifluent Melodious Melody Mildness Mimesis Mirth Moan Modulate Modulation Modulator Monotonously Monotony Mortal Mouth Mouthed Mouthing Movingly Mumble Mumbled Mumbler Mumbling Murmur Murmuring Music Music-book Musical Mute Mutter Muttered Muttering Mutteringly Negative Neigh Never Nose Note Ostracize Parrot Pause Personification Phonology Pipe Plaintful Point Polyphonic Popular Port Positive Prompt Quachilto Quarrel Quaver Quavering Querulous Racket Raise Raucity Rebound Recognize Rejoicing Resound Rest Reverberate Ring Rise Rook Scale Scream Screaming Screech See Send Serenade Set Sharp Shout Shrieking Shrill Shrillness Shrilly Sibilant Signify Silver Sing Small Smallness Snicker Snigger Soft Soften Solitary Solo Sonata Song Sonorous Sonorousness Sound Sounding-board Speaking-trumpet Squeak Squeaking Squeal Squealing Start Stentorian Stentorophonic Stride Strong Stun Suffrage Suppress Surcease Sweep Sweet Sweetness Syllable Symphony T Tabor Tale Tell Tenor Their There Thunder Tone Tremble Trill Tumult Tune Twang Tymbal Undiscording Unison Varnish Ventriloquism Ventriloquy Verse Vizier Vocal Vocality Vocalize Vocalized Vocalizing Vocally Vocation Vociferate Vociferating Vociferation Voice Voiced Voiceless Volume Vote Wappe Warble Warbling Weak Whimper Whimpering Whippowil Whisper Whispered Whispering Whisperingly Whoop Womanish Wondrous Word
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