the opening of a jar or bottle | a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated |
the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening | the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech |
the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge | the ability to speak |
an impudent or insolent rejoinder | the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract |
the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water | expressing in coherent verbal form |
an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge) | the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music |
a person conceived as a consumer of food | something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression |
a spokesperson (as a lawyer) | 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 |