voice vs quaver

quaver vs voice

voice and quaver both are nouns.

voice and quaver both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
voice	Yes	No	Yes	No
quaver	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, quaver is a hyponym of voice; that is, quaver is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than voice:

voice: utter with vibrating vocal chords
quaver: give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency

Other hyponyms of voice include chirk, waver.

voice (noun)	quaver (noun)
a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated	a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech	a tremulous sound
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)	quaver (verb)
give voice to	sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below
utter with vibrating vocal chords	give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency

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