vocalise
1 Americanverb (used with or without object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of vocalise
1870–75; < French vocalise, apparently noun derivative of vocaliser to vocalize, with -ise taken as a noun suffix ( see -ise 2)
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Against Forest, the visiting fans continued to vocalise their views of the biggest sporting sanction meted out in Premier League history.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023
Louise and Andy Davies, from Brecon, sought help when their three-year-old son Ethan became frustrated when he could not vocalise what he wanted to say.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2022
The term vocalise refers to a song without words.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
The Kalevala text is whispered, not sung; the rest of the soprano part is almost entirely vocalise: wordless singing.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2019
This is true, whether the student sings an exercise, a vocalise, a song, or an aria.
From The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern by Taylor, David C. (David Clark)
"He vocalised it. He lived it. He exemplified it," she said.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
I think probably what a lot of women felt is that it just vocalised the problem that lots of us have been saying for a long time.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024
The set of vocalised coda types combined with how frequently they are used makes up a vocal repertoire and define membership in a particular clan.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2024
"We recorded the shamanic practitioner and found that they repeatedly vocalised tones at 231 Hz, which were then amplified by the cave at its natural frequency."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2023
Their litera scripta manet; but how they vocalised it, we cannot always decide.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 Volume 18, New Series, October 23, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
The Atlantic dataset comprised two different clans and had rich annotations of the coda types recorded, the identity of the vocalising whales and their social relations.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2024
"In this study, we used recordings of chickens vocalising in all different scenarios from a previous experiment," Professor Henning said.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 2, 2024
Before the cast took the stage, a group of musicians and dancers playing African drums and vocalising gave a spine-tingling performance that had the crowd on their feet.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2022
West may be eccentric, but he is just vocalising an attitude that is now fully mainstream.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2018
Then he sang this song, in a low and almost toneless voice, uttering the notes rather than vocalising them.
From The Green Carnation by Hichens, Robert Smythe
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