a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated | the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money |
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech | acting in conformity |
the ability to speak | something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible |
the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power |
expressing in coherent verbal form | the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed |
the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music | a commercial organization serving as a common carrier |
something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression | a pipe used to transport liquids or gases |
A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced. | a telephone connection |
a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance | a particular kind of product or merchandise |
an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it |
(metonymy) a singer | a conceptual separation or distinction |
(linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes | a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning |
| a mark that is long relative to its width |
| text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen |
| a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence |
| a short personal letter |
| (often plural) a means of communication or access |
| persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress |
| the hereditary derivation of an individual |
| a formation of people or things one behind another |
| a connected series of events or actions or developments |
| a formation of people or things one beside another |
| a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent |
| in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area |
| a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops) |
| a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum |
| the maximum credit that a customer is allowed |
| space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising |
| a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point |
| a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface |