voice.html - See: AT THE TOP OF ONE'S VOICE, GIVE VOICE.

voice.html - {n.} The part of the throat where the sound of your voice is made; the larynx. * /Mr. Smith's voice box was taken out in an operation, and he could not talk after that./

voice.html - {n.}, {technological}, {colloquial} The graphic pattern derived from converting an individual's voice into a visible graph used by the police for identification purposes, much as fingerprints. * /They have succeeded in identifying the murderer by using a voiceprint./

voice.html - transitive verb ( Lifestyle and Leisure) To provide (a television programme, commercial, etc.) with a commentary spoken by an unseen narrator (often a famous actor or other person whose voice is well known); to dub over (a soundtrack) with another , more famous voice. Etymology: A phrasal verb formed from the noun voice-over, which has been used in the entertainment world since the forties for film or television narration which is not accompanied by a picture of the speaker . History and Usage: The television voice-over, especially by a famous actor, is a well-known feature of advertising in the eighties. Although perhaps used as a technical term in the entertainment industry for almost as long as the noun, the verb voice over only started to enter popular writing at the beginning of the eighties. The corresponding adjective may be voiced-over or voice-overed. Every single report or interview that she did for that programme was subsequently 'voiced-over' by a man. Listener 21 Aug. 1980, p.
229 The jet-setting Lady Penelope in Thunderbirds (voiced over by ex-wife/business partner Sylvia Anderson). The Times 6 Oct. 1983, p.
12 The first three parts of my report are...taped, edited, voice-overed, commentary written, everything. George V. Higgins Penance for Jerry Kennedy (1985), p. 230

voice.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a sound formed in the larynx etc. and uttered by the mouth, esp. human utterance in speaking, shouting, singing, etc. (heard a voice; spoke in a low voice). b the ability to produce this (has lost her voice).
2 a the use of the voice; utterance, esp. in spoken or written words (esp. give voice). b an opinion so expressed. c the right to express an opinion (I have no voice in the matter). d an agency by which an opinion is expressed.
3 Gram. a form or set of forms of a verb showing the relation of the subject to the action (active voice; passive voice).
4 Mus. a a vocal part in a composition. b a constituent part in a fugue.
5 Phonet. sound uttered with resonance of the vocal cords, not with mere breath.
6 (usu. in pl.) the supposed utterance of an invisible guiding or directing spirit.

--v.

tr.
1 give utterance to; express (the letter voices our opinion).
2 (esp. as voiced adj.) Phonet. utter with vibration of the vocal cords (e.g. b, d, g, v, z).
3 Mus. regulate the tone-quality of (organ-pipes).

in voice (or good voice) in proper vocal condition for singing or speaking. voice-box the larynx. the voice of God the expression of God's will, wrath, etc. voice-over narration in a film etc. not accompanied by a picture of the speaker. voice-print a visual record of speech, analysed with respect to frequency, duration, and amplitude. voice vote US a vote taken by noting the relative strength of calls of aye and no. with one voice unanimously.

-voiced adj. voicer n. (in sense 3 of v.). [ME f. AF voiz, OF vois f. L vox vocis]

voice.html - adj.
poet. or rhet.
1 vocal.
2 sonorous.