1. the sound produced by the vocal organs of a vertebrate, especially a human.
2. the ability to produce such sounds.
3. A specified quality, condition, or pitch of vocal sound: a hoarse voice; the child's piping voice.
4. linguistics expiration of air through vibrating vocal cords, used in the production of vowels and voiced consonants.
5. A sound resembling or reminiscent of vocal utterance: the murmuring voice of the forest.
6. music musical sound produced by vibration of the human vocal cords and resonated within the throat and head cavities.
7. music the quality or condition of a person's singing: a baritone in excellent voice.
8. music A singer: a choir of excellent voices.
9. music one of the individual vocal or instrumental parts or strands in a composition: a fugue for four voices; string voices carrying the melody. also called voice part.
10. expression; utterance: gave voice to their feelings at the meeting.
11. A medium or agency of expression: a newsletter that serves as a neighborhood voice.
12. the right or opportunity to express a choice or opinion: a territory that has a voice, but not a vote, in congress.
13. grammar A property of verbs or a set of verb inflections indicating the relation between the subject and the action expressed by the verb: "birds build nests” uses the active voice; "nests built by birds” uses the passive voice. also called diathesis.
14. the distinctive style or manner of expression of an author or of a character in a book.
15. to give voice to; utter: voice a grievance. see synonyms at vent1.
16. linguistics to pronounce with vibration of the vocal cords.
17. music to provide (a composition) with voice parts.
18. music to regulate the tone of (the pipes of an organ, for example).
19. to provide the voice for (a cartoon character or show, for example): the animated series was voiced by famous actors.
20. at the top of (one's) voice as loudly as one's voice will allow.
21. with one voice in complete agreement; unanimously.

1. sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; steven; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice.
2. sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f., sg., sh, etc., and also whisper.
3. the tone or sound emitted by anything
4. the faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the voice
5. language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion
6. opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote.
7. command; precept; — now chiefly used in scriptural language.
8. one who speaks; a speaker.
9. A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
10. A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel.
11. to give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce; to divulge; as, to voice the sentiments of the nation.
12. to utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.
13. to fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
14. to vote; to elect; to appoint — shakespeare
15. to clamor; to cry out, to steven — south
16. to assign the voice flag to a user on irc, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
17. to act as a voice actor to portray a character.

1. sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.
2. sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; -- distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and also whisper.
3. the tone or sound emitted by anything.
4. the faculty or power of utterance.
5. language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion.
6. opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote.
7. command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural language.
8. one who speaks; a speaker.
9. A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
10. to clamor; to cry out.
11. to give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce; to divulge.
12. to utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.
13. to fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of.
14. to vote; to elect; to appoint.

1. to give utterance to; assert; proclaim; declare; announce; rumor; report.
2. to fit for producing the proper sounds; regulate the tone of: as, to voice the pipes of an organ. see voicing.
3. to write the voiceparts of. hill, dict. mus. terms.
4. to nominate; adjudge by acclamation; declare.
5. in phonetics, to utter with voice or toue or sonancy, as distinguished from breath.
6. to speak; vote; give opinion.
7. in music, a singer or the voice-part that a singer sings.
8. in voice-building, same as voice quality.
9. the sound made by the stridulation of an insect.
10. the sound uttered by the mouths of living creatures; especially, human utterance in speaking, singing, crying, shouting, etc.; the sound made by a person in speaking, singing, crying, etc.; the character, quality, or expression of the sounds so uttered: as, to hear a voice; to recognize a voice; a loud voice; a low voice.
11. voice as a scientific term may mean either the faculty of nttering audible sounds, or the body of audible sounds produced by the organs of respiration, especially the larynx of man and other animals: contradistinguished from speech or articulate language. voice is produced when air is driven by the muscles of expiration from the lungs through the trachea and strikes against the two vocal cords (see cord), the vibrations of which produce sounds varying in different animals according to the structure of the organs and the power which the animal possesses over them. voice can, therefore, be found only in animals in which this svstem of respiration is developed, and the lungs and larynx (or syrinx) actually exist. fishes, having no lnngs, are dumb, as far as true vocal utterance is concerned, though various noises may issue from their throats (see croaker, grunt, and drum). in man the superior organization and mobility of the tongue and lips, as well as the perfection of the larynx, enable him to modify his vocal sounds to an almost infinite extent. in ordinary speaking the tones of the voice have nearly all the same pitch, and the variety of the sounds is due rather to the action of the mouth-organs than to definite movements of the glottis and vocal cords. in singing the successive sounds correspond more or less closely to the ideal tones of the musical scale. the male voice admits of division into tenor and bass, and the female into soprano and contralto. the lowest female tone is an octave or so higher than the lowest tone of the male voice; and the female's highest tone is about an octave above that of the male. the compass of both voices taken together is four octaves or more, the chief differences residing in the pitch and also in the timbre. in medicine, voice is the sound of utterance as transmitted through the lungs and chest-wall in auscultation. in zoology, voice is ordinarily restricted to respiratory sounds or vocal utterance, as above explained, and as distinguished from any mechanical noise, like stridulation, etc. the more usual word for the voice of any animal is cry; and the various cries, distinctive or characteristic of certain animals, take many distinctive terms, according to their vocal quality, as bark, bay, bellow, bleat, bray, cackle, call, caw, chatter, chirp, chirrup, cluck, coo, croak, crow, gabble, gobble, growl, grunt, hiss, honk, hoot, howl, low, mew, neigh, peep, pipe, purr, quack, roar, scream, screech, snarl, snort, song, squall, squawk, squeak, squeal, trumpet, twitter, warble, waul, whine, whinny, whistle, whoop, yawp, yell, yelp, and many others. the voices of some animals, as certain monkeys and large carnivores and ruminants, may be heard a mile; or more. the voice reaches its highest development, in animals other than human, in the distinctively musical class of birds, some of which, notably parrots and certain corvine and sturnoid birds, can be taught to talk intelligible speech.
12. the faculty of speaking; speech; utterance.
13. A sound produced by an inanimate object and regarded as representing the voice of an intelligent being: as, the voice of the winds.
14. anything analogous to human speech which conveys impressions to any of the senses or to the mind.
15. opinion or choice expressed; the right of expressing an opinion; vote; suffrage: as, you have no voice in the matter.
16. one who speaks; a speaker.
17. wish or admonition made known in any way; command; injunction.
18. that which is said; report; rumor; hence, reputation; fame.
19. A word; a term; a vocable.
20. in phonetics, sound uttered with resonance of the vocal cords, and not with a mere emission of breath; sonant utterance.
21. in grammar, that form of the verb or body of inflections which shows the relation of the subject of the affirmation or predication to the action expressed by the verb.

1. the ability to speak
2. expressing in coherent verbal form
3. (metonymy) a singer
4. a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
5. the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
6. the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
7. the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
8. something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
9. an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
10. utter with vibrating vocal chords
11. give voice to
12. a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
13. (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes