Vocalize vs Verbalize - What's the difference?
vocalize | verbalize |
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)
To speak or to use words to express.
(grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.
As verbs the difference between vocalize and verbalize
is that vocalize is to express with the voice, to utter while verbalize is to speak or to use words to express.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.
Synonyms
* (of humans) (l)Derived terms
* vocalization ----verbalize
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Alternative forms
* verbaliseVerb
(en-verb)- Bill became tongue-tied and could not verbalize his thoughts in the presence of the girl he had a crush on.