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say it: voys
voice is a noun and verb meaning "the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech". It carries 13 recorded senses.
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
“A shrill voice sounded behind us”
the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
“a singer takes good care of his voice”
“the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations”
a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
“the noisy voice of the waterfall”
“the incessant voices of the artillery”
expressing in coherent verbal form
“the articulation of my feelings”
“I gave voice to my feelings”
a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
“the voice of the law”
“the Times is not the voice of New York”
“conservatism has many voices”
something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
“the wee small voice of conscience”
“the voice of experience”
“he said his voices told him to do it”
an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
“the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government”
(linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
linguistics
the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
“he tried to sing the tenor part”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for voice come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.