Meaning

8 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance

    Vokalisierung

    вокализа́цияvokalizácija

  2. (countable, uncountable)Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation

    интона́цияintonácija, произноше́ниеproiznošénije

  3. (countable, uncountable)The use of speech to express an idea

    вокализа́цияvokalizácija

  4. (countable, uncountable)The production of communication sounds with the syrinx or larynx (in tetrapods) or with the swim bladder (in fish)

    the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication

  5. (countable, uncountable)The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise

    вокализа́цияvokalizácija

  6. (countable, uncountable)The vowel diacritics in certain scripts, like Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.

    Vokalisation, Vokalisierung

    огласо́вкаoglasóvka, вокализа́цияvokalizácija, ташки́льtaškílʹ

  7. (countable, uncountable)The addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.

  8. (countable, uncountable)The change in pronunciation 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—[ʊ], [u], [ɤ] 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 [pʰipʊ], [kʰoɤd], or [kʰoɤ] respectively.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Giraffes communicate through vocalizations and body language.

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  2. The Yautja have an intricate system of vocalizations, clicks, and growls, enabling communication among themselves.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
act of vocalizing or something vocalized:
specific mode of utterance:
supplying the vowels (diacritics), e.g. Arabic and Hebrew:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
act of vocalizing or something vocalized:
supplying the vowels (diacritics), e.g. Arabic and Hebrew:

Forms

plural: vocalizations
Singularvocalization
Pluralvocalizations

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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