- Declaration - Statement - Vocal sound - The act of uttering. - Sale by offering to the public. - Putting in circulation; as, the utterance of false coin,
or of forged notes. - Vocal expression; articulation; speech.
- Ability to speak or sing - Articulate - Express - Express (opinion) - Express what you might lose if you talk too much - Give expression to - Give utterance to
- A,E,I,O or U - AEIO or U - Non-consonant - One of five in our alphabet - Sound pronounced with an open vocal tract - A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by
resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case
giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a
sound of speech; -- distinguished from a consonant in that the latter,
whether made with or without vocality, derives its character in every
case from some kind of obstructive action by the mouth organs. Also, a
letter or character which represents such a sound. See Guide to
Pronunciation, // 5, 146-149. - Of or pertaining to a vowel; vocal.
- Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals. - Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a
sonorous voice. - Yielding sound; characterized by sound; vocal; sonant;
as, the vowels are sonorous. - Impressive in sound; high-sounding. - Sonant; vibrant; hence, of sounds produced in a cavity,
deep-toned; as, sonorous rhonchi.
- Applied to, or distinguishing, a speech element
consisting of tone, or proper vocal sound, not pure as in the vowels,
but dimmed and otherwise modified by some kind of obstruction in the
oral or the nasal passage, and in some cases with a mixture of breath
sound; -- a term introduced by Dr. James Rush in 1833. See Guide to
Pronunciation, //155, 199-202. - A subtonic sound or element; a vocal consonant, as b, d,
g, n, etc.; a subvocal. - The seventh tone of the scale, or that immediately below
the tonic; -- called also subsemitone.