to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated |
an administrative unit of government | the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech |
a business or organization that provides a particular service, especially the mediation of transactions between two parties | the ability to speak |
the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent | the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract |
the state of being in action or exerting power | expressing in coherent verbal form |
| the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music |
| something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression |
| A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced. |
| a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance |
| an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose |
| (metonymy) a singer |
| (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes |