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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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
She wants more women to vocalise their desires to their partners and to talk about their problems.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2018
He says many politicians suffer from voice problems, but they can combat overuse by practicing breathing techniques to help them vocalise more effectively.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2017
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
"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
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
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
Perhaps his collapse in literature may have been due to persistent efforts to teach him the difference between "F" and "if" vocalised.
From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
They arrived "bright, alert and responsive" and quickly began "vocalising to the females on the other side of the gate", he says.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
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
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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