Crossword clues for vocalize
vocalize
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Point \Point\ (point), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pointed; p. pr. & vb. n. Pointing.] [Cf. F. pointer. See Point, n.]
To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end; as, to point a dart, or a pencil. Used also figuratively; as, to point a moral.
To direct toward an abject; to aim; as, to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort.
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Hence, to direct the attention or notice of.
Whosoever should be guided through his battles by Minerva, and pointed to every scene of them.
--Pope. To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate; as, to point a composition.
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To mark (a text, as in Arabic or Hebrew) with vowel points; -- also called vocalize.
Syn: vocalize. [1913 Webster + RP]
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To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to indicate, as if by pointing; as, the error was pointed out.
--Pope.He points it, however, by no deviation from his straightforward manner of speech.
--Dickens. To indicate or discover by a fixed look, as game.
(Masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
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(Stone Cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
To point a rope (Naut.), to taper and neatly finish off the end by interweaving the nettles.
To point a sail (Naut.), to affix points through the eyelet holes of the reefs.
To point off, to divide into periods or groups, or to separate, by pointing, as figures.
To point the yards (of a vessel) (Naut.), to brace them so that the wind shall strike the sails obliquely.
--Totten.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from vocal + -ize. Related: Vocalized; vocalizing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To express with the voice, to utter. 2 (context of animals English) To produce noises or calls from the throat. 3 (context music English) To sing without using words. 4 (context linguistics English) To turn a consonant into a vowel. 5 (context linguistics dated English) To make a sound voiced rather than voiceless. 6 (context linguistics English) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)
WordNet
Usage examples of "vocalize".
Prime Integrator was vocalizing rather than transmitting on the common band.
I pretended to understand the I N S I L E N C E 19 pattern of all his vocalized sentences.
Sometimes it was no more than mental pictures, and often the expressive language of gestures, postures, and facial expressions with which she was most familiar, but since the young animal tended to respond to the sound of her voice, it encouraged Ayla to vocalize more.
Herb asked him what was wrong as soon as he saw him doing it and got zilch, not even the usual vocalizing stuff he does.
The big black hoodlum had vocalized Cazaux's own fear--this time, after so many close calls and so much death, the authorities might want Henri Cazaux out of the way for good.
I don't mean there was more than the usual body thrashing and hair-tossing and empassioned vocalizing from The Monkey-no, the drama was at the same Wagnerian pitch I was beginning to become accustomed to: it was the flow of feeling that was new and terrific.
Just as well Agust was her vocal teacher, or she'd never have progressed past vocalizes.
Merelan needed all her tact, and the weight of her position as MasterSinger, to get the girl to do the vocalizes that would strengthen her breath control, sustain her range and prepare her for the rigours of singing Petiron's kind of vocally extravagant music.
Though Ken and Todd had never vocalized it' they knew that they were Landreau's particular target.
Tall Eyebrow executed two symbols quickly, and vocalized a long, complex trill.
At her age, coherent thought was intermittent and, as she had yet to talk, not vocalized but he `touched' more in her mind than he expected.
At night he listened for one of their rare sounds, the qwok-qwok-qwok, hardly vocalized, that had given them their name.
They vocalized all together, by tens and hundreds, their weak voices blending into a vast muffled shout, that echoed out over the purple flood tide and reverberated from the chasms of the plateau.
The vocalized drumming picked up the sound, giving it resonance and depth.
He could even use the star-shaped touch readers in a primitive fashion — at least to point himself in the right direction for searches of indexed material — and he could plug himself into the periphery of a group conference and get something out of it beyond the shorthand information contained in vocalized talk.