Vocalize vs X - What's the difference?
vocalize | x |
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)
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
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As a verb vocalize
is to express with the voice, to utter.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.vocalize
English
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.