the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group | a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated |
the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result | the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech |
something less than the whole of a human artifact | the ability to speak |
an item that is an instance of some type | the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract |
a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions | expressing in coherent verbal form |
one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole | the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music |
an actor's portrayal of someone in a play | something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression |
that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation | A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced. |
the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music | a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance |
the extended spatial location of something | an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose |
a portion of a natural object | (metonymy) a singer |
assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group | (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes |
something determined in relation to something that includes it | |