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Vocalized vs Vocalization - What's the difference?

vocalized | vocalization |

As a verb vocalized

is past tense of vocalize.

As a noun vocalization is

the act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance.

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 ----

    vocalization

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
  • Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
  • The use of speech to express an idea
  • (music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
  • (orthography) The vowel diacritics in Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.
  • (linguistics) (w) of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds as vowels. For example, the syllabic /l/ in words like people'' or the coda one in words like ''cold'' or ''coal are variably realized as a high back vowel or glide—[?], [u], [?] or [o]—in many dialects of English in the US, UK, and the Southern Hemisphere. For example, in (African American Vernacular English), one common pronunciation of the words "people", "cold", and "coal" is [p?ip?], [k?o?d], or [k?o?] respectively.
  • Synonyms

    * vowelization (supplying vowels/diacritics to Arabic and Hebrew words/texts ) * tashkil (Arabic ) * nikud (Hebrew )