Focalized vs Vocalized - What's the difference?
focalized | vocalized |
(focalize)
To focus, or to adjust a focus
To sharpen an image by focusing
To concentrate on a particular location; to localize
(vocalize)
To express with the voice, to utter.
* 1876, Walt Whitman, preface to the 1876 edition of Leaves of Grass
(of animals) To produce noises or calls from the throat.
(music) To sing without using words.
(linguistics) To turn a consonant into a vowel.
(linguistics, dated) To make a sound voiced rather than voiceless.
(linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)
As verbs the difference between focalized and vocalized
is that focalized is past tense of focalize while vocalized is past tense of vocalize.focalized
English
Verb
(head)focalize
English
Verb
(focaliz)vocalized
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Verb
(head)vocalize
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Alternative forms
* vocalise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(en-verb)- Following the modern spirit, the real poems of the present, ever solidifying and expanding into the future, must vocalize the vastness and splendor and reality with which scientism has invested man and the universe,...
- We could hear the monkeys vocalizing , though we could not see them.