- a variation of vocalize.
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)
Example Sentences
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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
Those composers include some from Luther’s time and some from our time, and instrumental chorale preludes appear in Swingle Singers-like vocalise, without the insistent perkiness.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2017
CBC: Do you think that might become part of our journalistic careers – being that voice for people who are disenfranchised or unable to vocalise the prejudice they’re subjected to?
From The Guardian ● May 12, 2016
Those which were brooding, as they flitted over the nests or clung to the edges, uttering a peculiar note hard to vocalise.
From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
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
It revealed that greater spatial overlap between clans caused their respective identity coda repertoires to become more different from each other, by modulating the frequency with which they are vocalised.
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
But Je t’aime also speaks volumes about the changing expression of love after summers that were purportedly full of it: love became something to be vocalised loudly, shown off about, not hidden away.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2017
The soprano in the centre, vocalised in her highest register, bringing out the notes with vigorous twists of her entire body, and tossing them off into the air with sharp flirts of her head.
From The Pit by Frank Norris
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 Robert Smythe Hichens
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