Vocal vs Vocalization - What's the difference?
vocal | vocalization |
Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices
* (rfdate) Milton,
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
loud; getting oneself heard.
(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.
The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
The use of speech to express an idea
(music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
(orthography) The vowel diacritics in Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.
(linguistics) (w) of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds as vowels. For example, the syllabic /l/ in words like people'' or the coda one in words like ''cold'' or ''coal are variably realized as a high back vowel or glide—[?], [u], [?] or [o]—in many dialects of English in the US, UK, and the Southern Hemisphere. For example, in (African American Vernacular English), one common pronunciation of the words "people", "cold", and "coal" is [p?ip?], [k?o?d], or [k?o?] respectively.
As nouns the difference between vocal and vocalization
is that vocal is 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 nonvocalvocalization is the act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance.As an adjective vocal
is of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.vocal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, / Made vocal by my song.
- vocal problems
- a vocal sound
- The protestors were very vocal in their message to the mayor.