vocalize : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: vocalize	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for vocalize
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vocalize v utter with vibrating vocal chords [syn: voice, sound, vocalize, vocalise] Antonym(s): devoice sing (each note a scale or in a melody) with the same vowel Synonym(s): vocalize, vocalise pronounce as a vowel; "between two consonants, this liquid is vowelized" Synonym(s): vocalize, vocalise, vowelize, vowelise express or state clearly Synonym(s): articulate, enunciate, vocalize, vocalise utter speech sounds Synonym(s): vocalize, vocalise, phonate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vocalize \Vo"calize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vocalized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vocalizing}.] [Cf. F. vocaliser.] 1. To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to. It is one thing to give an impulse to breath alone, another thing to vocalize* that breath. --Holder. 2. To practice singing on the vowel sounds.