a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated | the opening of a jar or bottle |
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech | the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening |
the ability to speak | the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge |
the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | an impudent or insolent rejoinder |
expressing in coherent verbal form | the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water |
the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music | an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge) |
something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression | a person conceived as a consumer of food |
A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced. | a spokesperson (as a lawyer) |
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 | |