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vocalize | x |

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)
  • 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 ----

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----