the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency | a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated |
the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch | the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech |
a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence | the ability to speak |
| the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract |
| 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 |