verb Download 🔗Share To express with the voice, to utter. Examples : "The baby started to vocalize, making cooing sounds to get her mother's attention. " language communication sound linguistics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (of animals) To produce noises or calls from the throat. Examples : "We could hear the monkeys vocalizing, though we could not see them." animal sound biology communication Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To sing without using words. Examples : "The bird vocalized a beautiful melody in the morning. " music entertainment sound action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To turn a consonant into a vowel. Examples : "In Hong Kong English, /l/ may be vocalized at the end of a syllable." phonetics language linguistics grammar Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To make a sound voiced rather than voiceless. Examples : "To practice pronouncing the vowel sounds correctly, the teacher asked the students to vocalize each sound separately. " phonetics language communication sound linguistics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew) Examples : "The teacher asked the students to vocalize the Hebrew text by adding the correct niqqud below the consonants. " language writing linguistics phonetics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading