the act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible | a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated |
(anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech |
the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech | the ability to speak |
expressing in coherent verbal form | the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract |
the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made | 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 |