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Vocalized vs Localized - What's the difference?

vocalized | localized |

As verbs the difference between vocalized and localized

is that vocalized is past tense of vocalize while localized is past tense of localize.

As an adjective localized is

limited to a particular area, in a local vicinity only.

vocalized

English

Verb

(head)
  • (vocalize)

    • 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 ----

    localized

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Limited to a particular area, in a local vicinity only.
    • It's a localized phenomenon: it only happens around non-sceptics.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (localize)