a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated | a course of conduct |
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech | to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end |
the ability to speak | a journey or passage |
the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another |
expressing in coherent verbal form | how something is done or how it happens |
the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music | the property of distance in general |
something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression | doing as one pleases or chooses |
A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced. | a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of' |
a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance | a line leading to a place or point |
an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | a portion of something divided into shares |
(metonymy) a singer | space for movement |
(linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes | the condition of things generally |