voc-, voca-, vocab-, vocat-, -vocation, -vocative, -vocable, vok-, -voke +
(Latin: call, talk, speak, say, voice; word)
voicelessness
1. Being voiceless through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech.
2. A disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of the voice.
2. A disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of the voice.
voiceprint
1. A biometric identification by electronically recording and graphically representing a person's voice.
2. A representation in a graph form of the frequencies that make up someone's voice.
3. An electronically recorded graphic representation of a person's voice, uniquely characteristic of the individual speaker.
2. A representation in a graph form of the frequencies that make up someone's voice.
3. An electronically recorded graphic representation of a person's voice, uniquely characteristic of the individual speaker.
vouch
1. To assert or to confirm as a result of one's own experience, the truth or accuracy of something.
2. To provide supporting evidence for the quality of somebody or something.
3. To give personal assurances, or a guarantee: "He was willing to vouch for his friend's trustworthiness.
4. To constitute supporting evidence or to give substantiation in a legal trial.
5. Etymology: from Latin vocitare, "to call to, to summon insistently"; from Latin vocare, "to call, to call upon, to summon".
2. To provide supporting evidence for the quality of somebody or something.
3. To give personal assurances, or a guarantee: "He was willing to vouch for his friend's trustworthiness.
4. To constitute supporting evidence or to give substantiation in a legal trial.
5. Etymology: from Latin vocitare, "to call to, to summon insistently"; from Latin vocare, "to call, to call upon, to summon".
voucher
A small printed piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount, or which may be exchanged for produced goods, specified items, or services.
vouchsafe
1. To promise, to give, or to allow something.
2. To grant or to give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension: "She tried to vouchsafe a reply to a question."
2. To allow or to permit, as by favor or graciousness.
2. To grant or to give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension: "She tried to vouchsafe a reply to a question."
2. To allow or to permit, as by favor or graciousness.
vowel
1. A speech sound made with the vocal tract open.
2. A speech sound produced by the passage of air through the vocal tract, with relatively little obstruction.
3. A letter of the alphabet that represents a spoken vowel.
2. A speech sound produced by the passage of air through the vocal tract, with relatively little obstruction.
3. A letter of the alphabet that represents a spoken vowel.
In English, the vowels are "a", "e", "i", "o", "u", and sometimes "y".
vox
1. The sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract.
2. Etymology: from Latin; literally, "voice".
2. Etymology: from Latin; literally, "voice".
Vox audita perit, littera scripta manet.
The spoken word perishes, but the written word remains.
Vox clamans in deserto.
A voice crying in the wilderness.
Motto of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
Vox clamantis in deserto.
The voice of one crying in the wilderness.
Familiar words from the New Testament in the Bible.
vox clandestina
A clandestine, or hidden, voice; a whisper.
vox et praeterea nihil
A voice and nothing more.
Empty words; a threat but nothing more.
vox humana
A musical organ stop with a tone supposedly resembling the human voice.
Vox populi, vox Dei.
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
This doesn't mean that the voice of the people is wise or from God, but only that the voice of the people is irresistible and can't be ignored.
vox populi; vox pop.
The voice of the people.
Public opinion.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.":
cit-;
clam-;
dic-;
fa-;
-farious;
glosso-;
glotto-;
lalo-;
linguo-;
locu-;
logo-;
loqu-;
mythico-;
-ology;
ora-;
-phasia;
-phemia;
phon-;
phras-;
Quotes: Language,Part 1;
Quotes: Language, Part 2;
Quotes: Language, Part 3;
serm-;
tongue.
