voice vs melodic line

melodic line vs voice

voice and melodic line both are nouns.

voice is a verb but melodic line is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
voice	Yes	No	Yes	No
melodic line	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, melodic line is a hypernym of voice; that is, melodic line is a word with a broader meaning than voice:

voice: the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
melodic line: a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence

Other hypernyms of voice include air, line, melodic phrase, melody, strain, tune.

voice (noun)	melodic line (noun)
a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated	a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
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

voice (verb)	melodic line (verb)
give voice to
utter with vibrating vocal chords

Difference between voice and melodic line

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