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Vocalize vs Babble - What's the difference?

vocalize | babble |

As verbs the difference between vocalize and babble

is that vocalize is to express with the voice, to utter while babble is to utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as, a child babbles .

As a noun babble is

idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.

vocalize

English

Alternative forms

* vocalise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To express with the voice, to utter.
  • * 1876, Walt Whitman, preface to the 1876 edition of Leaves of Grass
    • 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,...
  • (of animals) To produce noises or calls from the throat.
    • We could hear the monkeys vocalizing , though we could not see them.
  • (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)

    • Synonyms

    * (of humans) (l)

    Derived terms

    * vocalization ----

    babble

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.
  • * 1634 , John Milton, Comus, a Mask , line 823:
  • * "This is mere moral babble ."
  • Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.
  • :* The babble of our young children. - .
  • A sound like that of water gently flowing around obstructions.
  • :* The babble of the stream. - .

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * astrobabble * econobabble * edu-babble * neurobabble * psychobabble * sociobabble * technobabble

    See also

    * babblement * babblery

    Verb

    (babbl)
  • To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as, a child babbles .
  • To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.
  • To talk much; to chatter; to prate.
  • To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.
  • :* In every babbling brook he finds a friend. - .
    • Hounds are said to babble,''' or to be '''babbling, when they are too noisy after having found a good scent.
  • To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding.
  • :* These words he used to babble in all companies. - .
  • To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.

    • References

    * English onomatopoeias English reduplications ----