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4 definitions found
 for Voiced
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
  Voiced \Voiced\, a.
     1. Furnished with a voice; expressed by the voice.
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     2. (Phon.) Uttered with voice; pronounced with vibrations of
        the vocal cords; sonant; -- said of a sound uttered with
        the glottis narrowed.
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     Voiced stop, Voice stop (Phon.), a stopped consonant made
        with tone from the larynx while the mouth organs are
        closed at some point; a sonant mute, as b, d, g hard.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
  Voice \Voice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Voiced; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Voicing.]
     1. To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish;
        to announce; to divulge; as, to voice the sentiments of
        the nation. "Rather assume thy right in silence and . . .
        then voice it with claims and challenges." --Bacon.
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              It was voiced that the king purposed to put to death
              Edward Plantagenet.                   --Bacon.
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     2. (Phon.) To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce
        with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal
        cords; to speak above a whisper.
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     3. To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the
        tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
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     4. To vote; to elect; to appoint. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
  voiced
      adj 1: produced with vibration of the vocal cords; "a frequently
             voiced opinion"; "voiced consonants such as `b' and `g'
             and `z'"; [syn: voiced, sonant, soft] [ant: hard,
             surd, unvoiced, voiceless]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
  105 Moby Thesaurus words for "voiced":
     accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental,
     articulate, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial,
     broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant,
     consonantal, continuant, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, enunciated,
     flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high,
     intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light,
     lingual, linguistic, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, muted,
     narrow, nasal, nasalized, nuncupative, occlusive, open, oral,
     oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parol, pharyngeal, pharyngealized,
     phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, pronounced,
     retroflex, rounded, said, semivowel, soft, sonant, sounded, speech,
     spoken, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, tense, thick,
     throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed,
     unwritten, uttered, velar, verbal, viva voce, vocal, vocalic,
     vocalized, vocoid, voiceful, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak,
     wide
  
  

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