a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated | the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly |
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech | the tube of a pipe or cigarette holder that a smoker holds in the mouth |
the ability to speak | an acoustic device; the part of a telephone into which a person speaks |
the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | (especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth |
expressing in coherent verbal form | a part that goes over or into the mouth of a person |
the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music | a spokesperson (as a lawyer) |
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 | |