Meaning of 'vocal' (Webster Dictionary)
- Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice;
endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.
- Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody;
vocal prayer.
- Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, /poken
with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of
certain articulate sounds.
- Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced
in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the
case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants,
such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng; sonant;
intonated; voiced. See Voice, and Vowel, also Guide to Pronunciation,
// 199-202.
- Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a
vowel; vowel.
- A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of
speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic
element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal.
- A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.
Meaning of 'vocal' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a short musical composition with words
Example in sentence:- a successful musical must have at least three good songs
Meaning (2):
- having or using the power to produce speech or sound
Example in sentence:- all vocal beings hymned their praise;
- vocal organs
Meaning (3):
- relating to or designed for or using the singing voice
Example in sentence:- organized a vocal group to sing his compositions;
- the vocal repertoire;
- vocal technique
Meaning (4):
- full of the sound of voices
Example in sentence:- a playground vocal with the shouts and laughter of children
Meaning (5):
- given to expressing yourself freely or insistently
Example in sentence:- a vocal assembly;
- outspoken in their opposition to segregation
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