voice (original) (raw)
voice noun (OPINION)
make your voice heard Unfortunately a strike was the only way to make our voices heard.
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voice noun (GRAMMAR)
[ S ] language specialized
Idioms
He had voiced the animated Scooby Doo for many years.
He then worked on another animated project, Disney's "South of the Border," in which he voiced the Emperor Montezuma.
The Simpsons' Bart Simpson is voiced by the American actress Nancy Jean Cartwright.
The victim's words were voiced by an actor during the interview.
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(Definition of voice from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
voice | American Dictionary
voice noun [C/U] (SOUNDS)
voice noun [C/U] (OPINION)
voice noun [C/U] (GRAMMAR)
voice verb [T] (OPINION)
(Definition of voice from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of voice
voice
In soft respectful voices the young men were responding and informing each other what they were doing, where they were.
Douglass might well have voiced the same words.
We cannot identify whose voices can be heard.
In its legal forms it legitimates or ignores the voices under its control.
They each presented themselves as voluntary patients to mental hospitals, complaining that they were hearing voices.
Hearing voices that keep up a running commentary in the head.
Then he voices his distaste of the conversation, attempting to assert himself as husband.
People with personality disorder behave aggressively for the excitement it causes, whereas some people with psychosis behave aggressively because they hear voices saying 'strike'.
The machine analysis of voices is a major sub-field with regular conferences.
The first finding was that the children from 'singing group' stated that they liked the way their voices sounded in both speech and singing.
Such findings indicate that the children from 'singing group' viewed their voices in more positive terms than the children from 'non-singing group' did.
A fundamentally dyadic contrapuntal structure maintains clear differences between the two constituent voices.
Initially, the television screen was covered, forcing the par ticipants to base their comments solely on the interviewees' voices.
An interruption by something sounding like a switch leads into a chorus of voices speaking about an undisclosed quasi-scientific process.
Without rediscovery of victims' voices, the idea of an inclusive process of truth recovery (essential to an effective legal and political transition) remains a chimera.
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Collocations with voice
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Gifted in alto voice, violin playing and drawing, he was aspired to become a graphic artist.
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No apparent mental or physical barrier is to be acknowledged in the pursuit of the authentic voice of the user.
Unlike the chronicles, in these works the authorial voice is modestly but clearly heard.
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