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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She told the BBC that the first time she was able to vocalise what she had been through was when making the documentary.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2024
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
In some moments this is explicit — note the cooing vocalise and ad-agency camerawork when Yangjin prepares a special goodbye meal of hard-to-find white rice.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
The term vocalise refers to a song without words.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
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 Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
Fan anger has again been aimed at chairman Daniel Levy - vocalised in persistent 'Levy out' calls from supporters both home and away.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
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
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
But he won his two landslide Labour victories in 1997 and 2001 on his domestic programme, which most famously was vocalised as "education, education, education".
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2016
That last and entirely superfluous note of exclamation seems only to be adequately vocalised as a chuckle.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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
Basically, corporations are like, ‘don’t have an opinion’, and I’m like, ‘so if I was vocalising for the other side, you’d still get letters, you know that right’.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2017
The eldest Miss Botting knew Kipps was the sort of guest who requires nursing, and she came forward vocalising charm.
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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