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VOX
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Irregular inflected form: voces
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
Example:
the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations
Synonyms:
phonation; vocalisation; vocalism; vocalization; voice; vox
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("vox" is a kind of...):
communication (something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vox"):
singing voice (the musical quality of the voice while singing)
sprechgesang; sprechstimme (a style of dramatic vocalization between singing and speaking)
voice over (the voice on an unseen commentator in a film of television program)
