Vocalized vs Vocalised - What's the difference?
vocalized | vocalised | Alternative forms |
(vocalize)
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)
Vocalised is a alternative form of vocalized.
As verbs the difference between vocalized and vocalised
is that vocalized is past tense of vocalize while vocalised is past tense of vocalise.vocalized
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Verb
(head)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.