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Speaker vs Vocal - What's the difference?

speaker | vocal |

As nouns the difference between speaker and vocal

is that speaker is one who speaks while vocal is vowel.

As an adjective vocal is

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speaker

English

(wikipedia speaker)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who speaks.
    • A native English speaker .
  • Loudspeaker.
  • (politics) The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • One who makes a speech to an audience.
    • The company hired a motivational speaker to boost morale.
  • (US) A book containing passages of text for use in speeches.
  • (linguistics) The producer of a given utterance, whether actually spoken or not.

    • External links

    * Link to web page on Speaker of the House of Commons (3)

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    vocal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices
  • * (rfdate) Milton,
    • To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, / Made vocal by my song.
    vocal problems
  • Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal' melody; '''vocal''' prayer, ' vocal worship.
  • Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, spoken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds
  • (phonetics) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v'', ''l'', etc., or by both, as in the nasals (m), (n), ''ng ; sonant; intonated; voiced. See voice, and vowel
  • (phonetics) Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel
    • a vocal sound
  • loud; getting oneself heard.
    • The protestors were very vocal in their message to the mayor.

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    Synonyms

    * (uttered or modulated by the voice) audible * (getting oneself heard) audible, loud

    Antonyms

    * (uttered or modulated by the voice) inaudible, quiet, silent, voiceless * (getting oneself heard) inaudible, quiet, silent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (phonetics) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal', and a ' nonvocal
  • (Roman Catholic Church) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.

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