the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly | a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated |
the tube of a pipe or cigarette holder that a smoker holds in the mouth | the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech |
an acoustic device; the part of a telephone into which a person speaks | the ability to speak |
(especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth | the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract |
a part that goes over or into the mouth of a person | expressing in coherent verbal form |
a spokesperson (as a lawyer) | 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 |