Phonate

/fəʊˈneɪt/ · verb

Meaning

(intransitive) To make sounds with one's voice..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To make sounds with one's voice.
2. (transitive) To use one's voice to make specific sounds.
3. voiced

Example Sentences

His voice is perfect; he phonates loudly and well.

[A]s soon, however, as the patient endeavored to produce a higher note by phonating forcibly, the vocal cords were stretched unusually tight, the arytenoid cartilages were pressed spasmodically together, and no tone could be heard.

[O]ne finds patients unable to take a single step, who can dance with consummate ease and grace; patients unable to phonate, or utter a single word, who can sing without any difficulty, bringing to the music all the volume, all the richness and delicacy of intonation, all the feeling, that it demands.

Adult male speakers can phonate at fundamental frequencies that range between 80 and 300 Hz. Adult females and children normally phonate at fundamental frequencies that range up to about 500 Hz, although the fundamental frequency can go up to 1.5 kHz [...]

[A] salesman from DISA came and tried to sell us a hot-wire anemometer. For the pure fun of it, I stuck the hot-wire in my mouth and phonated. I had thought that the actual flows that occurred in the mouth during speech were relatively small and that they would be quite uniform.

I wanted to look up velleity and quotidian and memorize the fuckers for all time, spell them, learn them, pronounce them syllable by syllable—vocalize, phonate, utter the sounds, say the words for all they're worth.

If we are performing professionally, we must be able to keep on phonating for a long period of time while retaining a fresh, clear, and steady voice.

Basically, I [countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo] use the same technique as a female mezzo-soprano, with one small physiological difference: I have to narrow my vocal cords to phonate [produce the sound].

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Word Forms

• phonates
• phonating
• phonated

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