a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated | travel via aircraft |
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech | a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing |
the ability to speak | a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence |
the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | medium for radio and television broadcasting |
expressing in coherent verbal form | the region above the ground |
the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music | the mass of air surrounding the Earth |
something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression | a slight wind (usually refreshing) |
A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced. | a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of |
a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance | once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour blood |
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 | |