Voicing

Quick meaning: Voicing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of voice.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of voice.

More Meanings

1. (music) The final regulation of the pitch and tone of any sound-producing entity, especially of an organ or similar musical instrument.
2. (music) A particular arrangement of notes to form a chord.
3. (phonetics) The articulatory process in which the vocal cords vibrate.
4. (phonetics, phonology) A classification of speech sounds that tend to be associated with vocal cord vibration.
5. (phonology) A phonological process that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one.
6. A sound made by the voice; vocalization.

Example Sentences

Shrill voicings of seagulls

Pete dressed Eddie's high-pitched voicings in the stick-sweet strings of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.

Word Forms

• voicings

Synonyms for voicing

Depending on context, synonyms include sonorization.

Antonyms for voicing

Common opposites include devoicing, surdization.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vocalization, interpreter, vocalize, representative, part, spokesperson.

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