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Voiced vs Vocalized - What's the difference?

voiced | vocalized |

As verbs the difference between voiced and vocalized

is that voiced is (voice) while vocalized is (vocalize).

As an adjective voiced

is (phonetics): sounded with vibration of the vocal cords for example, the phone [z] is voiced, while [s] is unvoiced.

voiced

English

Verb

(head)
  • (voice)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (phonetics): Sounded with vibration of the vocal cords. For example, the phone [z] is voiced, while [s] is unvoiced.

    • Antonyms

    * voiceless * unvoiced

    Derived terms

    * semi-voiced

    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 ----