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Definition: Vox |
VoxNoun1. The sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract; "a singer takes good care of his voice"; "the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vox" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Vox \Vox\, noun. [Latin expression See Voice.]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
VOX | English | Voice operated transmission | N/A |
VOX | Italian | Ripetizione controllata vocalmente | Electrical Engineering |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In telecommunication, a vox (short for 'voice operated switch') is an acoustoelectric transducer and a keying relay connected so that the keying relay is actuated when sound, or voice, energy above a certain threshold is sensed by the transducer.
Note: A vox is used to eliminate the need for push-to-talk operation of a transmitter by using voice energy to turn on the transmitter. Synonyms voice operated relay circuit , voice operated transmit.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Vox is a musical equipment manufacturer based in Britain, which is most famous for making the AC30 guitar amplifier.The Jennings Organ Company was founded by Tom Jennings after World War II and made the Univox, an electronic organ. In 1956 Jennings was shown a prototype guitar amplifier made by Dick Denney, an old workmate from a wartime munitions factory. The company was renamed Jennings Musical Instruments, and in 1958 the 15-watt Vox AC15 was launched. It was taken up by the Shadows and other British rock 'n' roll musicians.
In 1959, with sales under pressure from the more powerful Fender Twin, Vox produced the 30-watt AC30. The AC30, fitted with Celestion "blue" loudspeakers and Vox's special "Top Boost" circuitry helped to produce the distinctive sound of the British Invasion, being used by The Beatles, The Who and the Yardbirds, among others. AC30s were later used by Brian May of Queen and Paul Weller of The Jam.
In 1962 Vox introduced the pentagonal Phantom guitar made by EKO of Italy. It was followed a year later by the teardrop-shaped Phantom Mk. III, the prototype of which was used by Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones.
The Vox brand was also applied to electronic organs, notably the Vox Continental of 1962, and guitar effects pedals, including an early version of the wah-wah.
In 1964 Jennings sold a share in JMI to the Royston Group, and sold American rights to the Thomas Organ Company. He left the company in 1967, at about the time that Marshall overtook Vox as the dominant force in the British guitar amp market. Royston went bust in 1969, and the company went through a series of names and owners. Costs were cut, especially in the production of the AC30: cheaper loudspeakers with inferior magnets were used, as were printed circuit boards, while particleboard replaced plywood and at one point a solid-state version was introduced.
Vox Amplification Ltd has been owned by Korg since 1992, and has released the most faithful version of the AC30 for many years and a new range of digital-modelling amps. Some products are now made in the far east.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vox."
Synonyms: VoxSynonyms: phonation (n), vocalisation (n), vocalization (n), voice (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Aphony | Phrase: vox faucibus haesit. |
Assent | Unanimity, common consent, consensus, acclamation, chorus, vox populi; popular belief, current belief, current opinion; public opinion; concurrence; (of causes); cooperation; (voluntary). |
Boasting | Vanity; vox et praeterea nihil; much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen. |
Caution | Ante victoriam ne canas triumphum; "give, every man thine ear but few thy voice"; he who laughs last laughs best, il rit bien qui rit le dernier; ni firmes carta que no leas ni bebas agua que no veas; nescit vox missa reverti; " love all, trust a few "; noli irritare leones; safe bind safe find; " if it ain't broke, don't fix it". |
Change | Phrase: "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream"; nous avons change tout cela; tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis; non sum qualis eram; casaque tourner; corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur; in statu quo ante bellum; "still ending and beginning still"; vox audita perit littera scripta manet. |
Fear | Phrase: ante tubam trepidat; horresco referens, one's heart failing one, obstupui steteruntque comae et vox faucibus haesit. |
Government | Monarchy; kinghood, kingship; royalty, regality; aristarchy, aristocracy; oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, demagogy; commonwealth; dominion; heteronomy; republic, republicanism; socialism; collectivism; mob law, mobocracy, ochlocracy; vox populi, imperium in imperio; bureaucracy; beadledom, bumbledom; stratocracy; military power, military government, junta; feodality, feudal system, feudalism. |
Election, poll, ballot, vote, referendum, recall, initiative, voice, suffrage, plumper, cumulative vote, plebiscitum, plebiscite, vox populi; electioneering; voting; Verb: elective franchise; straight ticket; opinion poll, popularity poll. | |
Impotence | Telum imbelle, brutum fulmen, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy; paper tiger; Quaker gun. |
Memory | Phrase: manet alta mente repostum; forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit; absens haeres non erit; beatae memoriae; "briefly thyself remember"; mendacem memorem esse oportet; "memory the warder of the brain"; parsque est meminisse doloris; "to live in hearts we leave behind is not to die"; vox audita peril littera scripta manet; out of sight, out of mind. |
Publication | Publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit, hype; vox populi; report; (news). |
Unmeaningness | Empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil; "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal." |
Unsubstantiality | Nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody; never a one, ne'er a one; no such thing, none in the world; nothing whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earth; not a particle; (smallness); all talk, moonshine, stuff and nonsense; matter of no importance, matter of no consequence. thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe, faggot voter; nominis umbra, nonentity; flash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil. |
Vanity | Vox et praeterea nihil; cheval de bataille. coxcomb; Sir Oracle. |
Wonder | Phrase: vox faucibus haesit; one's hair standing on end. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vox |
| Specialty definitions using "vox": Bomba ♦ Canens, COMM 2000 ♦ Didones ♦ Globe of Glass, Glyphics ♦ Modern Face ♦ Scripts, Slab-Serifs ♦ Transitionals ♦ Vox Populi Vox Dei. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "vox": Vocule. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Vox" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (authority, cry, expression, right, tone, voice, voice/ jurisdiction, vote, word /(med.) power). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I have no doubt that Vox is in good hands. (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence) Well, the Protector got super-accelerated coming out of the black hole, and it, like, nailed the atmosphere at Mach 15, which, you guys know, is pretty unstable, obviously, so we're gonna help Laredo guide it on the vox ultra-frequency carrier and use Roman candles for visual confirmation. (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Vox Populi (1997) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Janeane Garofalo | Vox Number One and I can aid and abet a life well led*. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Vox" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.30% of the time. "Vox" is used about 66 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 80.3% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Noun (common) | 10.61% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.09% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 66 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "vox": obstupui steteruntque comae et vox faucibus haesit ♦ vox angelica ♦ vox audita perit littera scripta manet ♦ Vox classification ♦ VOX control ♦ vox et praeterea nihil ♦ vox faucibus haesit ♦ vox humana ♦ vox pop ♦ vox populi ♦ vox populi vox dei. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "vox": vox-pop, vox-popping. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
vox | 393 | g vox | 15 |
baby vox | 309 | baby lyrics vox | 15 |
vox amps | 59 | vox amp | 15 |
fm vox | 52 | vox talks | 14 |
vox amplifier | 48 | vox humana | 14 |
baby picture vox | 36 | vox dei | 14 |
vox guitar | 31 | 8500 audiovox vox | 13 |
vox witch | 30 | baby gallery vox | 12 |
audio vox | 29 | vox link | 12 |
vox vodka | 28 | phantom vox | 11 |
bono vox | 28 | radio vox | 10 |
vox ac30 | 27 | 101.7 fm vox | 10 |
vox populi | 25 | proxy vox | 10 |
baby vox wallpaper | 21 | day vox | 9 |
canal vox | 20 | baby forum vox | 9 |
8500 vox | 19 | tonelab vox | 9 |
diccionario vox | 19 | magazine vox | 9 |
vox tv | 18 | vox card | 9 |
baby pic vox | 16 | vox player | 8 |
vox valvetronix | 16 | vox wah | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "vox"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ze. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | глас (part, tone, voice, vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Vox-klassifikation (Vox classification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Vox-classificatie (Vox classification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Vox-luokittelu (Vox classification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | classification Vox (Vox classification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Voxklassifizierung (Vox classification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φωνή (call, cry, sound, speech, voice, volume). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קול (noise, sound, thunder, voice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hang (assertiveness, high voice, note, phonic, skirl, sonic, sound, speech, strain, tenor, tune, voice, vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | classificazione Vox (Vox classification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coraa (communication, suffrage, voice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oxvay voz (voice, vote), palavra (expression, loan, say, shibboleth, spell, term, word). (various references) голос (call, organ, voice, voicing). (various references) glas (phone, report, reputation, rumor, rumour, sound, voice, vote). (various references) voz de la calle (vox pop), control por voz (VOX control), clasificación Vox (Vox classification). (various references) Vox-klassificering (Vox classification). (various references) ses (acoustic, audio, call, clatter, cry, noise, phonic, phono-, shout, sonance, sonic, sono-, sound, speech, tone, vocal, voice, vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 8, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | UmaV w anqrwpoi parakalw kai proiemai emhn fwnhn uioiV anqrwpwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | O viri ad vos clamito et vox mea ad filios hominum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Men, to you I ofte crie; and my vois to the sones of men. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | To you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | I am crying out to you, O men; my voice comes to the sons of men. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 8, Verse 4 |
| Cebuano | Kaninyo, Oh mga tawo, ako nagatawag; Ug ang akong tingog maoy alang sa mga anak nga lalake sa mga tawo. |
| Croatian | "Vama, o ljudi, propovijedam i upravljam svoj glas sinovima ljudskim. |
| Danish | Jeg kalder på eder, I Mænd, løfter min Røst til Menneskens Børn. |
| Dutch | Tot u, o mannen! roep Ik, en Mijn stem is tot de mensenkinderen. |
| Finnish | "Teitä minä kutsun, miehet, ja ihmislapsille kaikuu minun ääneni. |
| French | Hommes, c`est vous que je crie, Et ma voix s`adresse aux fils de l`homme. |
| German | O ihr Männer, ich schreie zu euch und rufe den Leuten. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Hai, umat manusia, kepadamu aku berseru; setiap insan di bumi, perhatikanlah himbauanku! |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Kepadamu juga aku berseru, hai kamu orang laki-laki! dan bunyi suaraku sampai kepada segala anak-anak Adam. |
| Italian | «A voi, uomini, io mi rivolgo, ai figli dell'uomo è diretta la mia voce. |
| Maori | Ki a koutou, e nga tangata, taku karanga; ki nga tama ano a te tangata toku reo. |
| Norwegian | Til eder, I menn, roper jeg, og min røst lyder til menneskenes barn. |
| Rumanian | ,,Oamenilor, cqtre voi strig, wi spre fiii oamenilor se kndreaptq glasul meu. |
| Russian | `Л ЧБН, МА"Й, ЧЪЩЧБА С, Й Л УЩОБН ЮЕМПЧЕЮЕУЛЙН ЗПМПУ НПК! |
| Spanish | "¡Oh hombres, a vosotros llamo! Mi voz se dirige a los hijos del hombre. |
| Swedish | Till eder, I man, vill jag ropa, och min röst skall utgå till människors barn. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "vox": sonovox, volvox. (additional references) | |
Words containing "vox": sonovoxes, volvoxes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vox" (pronounced vÄ"ks) |
| 3 | -Ä" k s | blocks, blocs, box, clocks, cocks, Cox, docks, flocks, Fox, frocks, Jocks, knocks, locks, Lox, macaques, mocks, outfox, ox, pocks, pox, rocks, shocks, socks, sox, stocks. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "o-v-x" | |
-1 letter: ox. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-v-x" | |
+3 letters: convex, volvox, vortex. | |
+4 letters: overlax, overmix, overtax, sonovox. | |
+5 letters: biconvex, convexes, convexly, foxglove, poxvirus, vexation, videotex, volvoxes, vortexes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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