Vocal

Definition: Vocal

Vocal

Adjective

1. Relating to or designed for or using the singing voice; "vocal technique"; "the vocal repertoire"; "organized a vocal group to sing his compositions".

2. Having or using the power to produce speech or sound; "vocal organs"; "all vocal beings hymned their praise".

3. Using the voice in song; "vocal music".

4. Given to expressing yourself freely or insistently; "outspoken in their opposition to segregation"; "a vocal assembly".

5. Using the voice in speech; "vocal communication"; "either silent or vocal prayers"; "vocal noises".

6. Full of the sound of voices; "a playground vocal with the shouts and laughter of children".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "vocal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Vocal

Voice

Adjective: vocal, phonetic, oral; ejaculatory, articulate, distinct, stertorous; euphonious; (melodious).

Crosswords: Vocal

French (vocal), Portuguese (phonal, phonic, vocal), Romanian (vocal, vocally), Spanish (vocal, vowel).

The patient's screaming disturbing me, performed removal of vocal chords (Zombi Holocaust; writing credit: Fabrizio De Angelis; Walter Patriarca)

Every creature in the universe is out to exterminate us, and you want to hire a vocal group (Battlestar Galactica; writing credit: Glen A. Larson)

The Starland Vocal Band Show (1977)

AFTERNOON DELIGHT  (performing artist: Starland Vocal Band )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Vocal Abuse and Misuse (reference)

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Books

• Bel Canto Theoretical and Practical Vocal Method (reference)

• Italian Girls in Algiers: The Vocal Score (reference)

• Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas Eve & Other Stories: Piano, Vocal, Chords (reference)

• Best of Ani Difranco: Piano, Vocal, Guitar (reference)

• The Ultimate Pop Rock Fake Book: Over 500 Songs for Piano, Vocal, Guitar, Electronic Keyboards & All 'C' Instruments 1955 to Present (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Vocal Awareness: How to Discover, Nurture & Project Your Natural Voice (reference)

• Vocal Style and Performance (reference)

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Music

• Best of Jive Vocal Groups (reference)

• Hipsters' Holiday: Vocal Jazz & R&B Classics (reference)

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High Tech

• AUDIO TECHNICA ATR50 Unidirectional Dynamica Vocal / Instrument Microphone (reference)

• SONIC FOUNDRY ILONA! Universal Female Vocal Toolkit (Windows) (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

School of vocal physiology ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Palermo, Sicily. Allied soldiers listening to concert given for them by Palermo symphony orchestra and local vocal artists. Credit: Library of Congress.

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A tin pipe ascends through the ceiling, and forms a medium of vocal communication with other parts of the edifice

The prioress is elected for three years by the mothers, who are called (r)vocal mothers , because they have a voice in the chapter

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Health

Voice is produced by vibration of the vocal folds. (references)

Most disorders of vocal abuse and misuse are reversible. (references)

Contact ulcers are a less common disorder of vocal abuse. (references)

Business

Labor unions have been very vocal in their opposition concerned about the potential massive layoffs. (references)

The most vocal of these airports is Skavsta in Nykoping, which has adopted the name Stockholm-Skavsta Airport. (references)

Other officials are more vocal about the independence of China’s new developers, and most prominent American firms accept the need for Chinese local developments if based on common global standards. (references)

Civil Liberties

Maldives

Some teachers reportedly are vocal in their criticism of the Government. (references)

Nauru

It has been particularly vocal regarding economic crises during the year. (references)

Kenya

Father Kaiser was a vocal human rights activist and a critic of key members of the Government. (references)

Economic History

Romania

Trade unions are vocal defenders of their prerogatives. (references)

Georgia

The Abkhaz faction remains vocal and influential in pushing for resolution for the Abkhaz conflict. (references)

Poland

Business groups, including the American Chamber of Commerce, are also becoming increasingly vocal on the subject. (references)

Human Rights

Burkina Faso

The Burkinabe Movement for Human Rights (MBDHP), the country's largest human rights organization and a vocal critic of the Government, alleged that security forces committed numerous extrajudicial killings between October and year's end. (references)

Indigenous People

Bangladesh

After vocal protests, the Government put the proposal on hold. (references)

Indonesia

Since 1999 NGO's have been more vocal and effective in lobbying for indigenous people's rights. (references)

Minorities

Romania

Ethnic Hungarians, officially numbering more than 1.6 million, constitute the largest and most vocal minority, and their UDMR party was the leading political partner for the ruling minority PSD Government during the year. (references)

Political Economy

Philippines

Although some import-sensitive manufacturing industries have become more vocal in lobbying for protection of their industries, the administration of Macapagal-Arroyo (herself a U.S.-trained economist) appears to be committed to some liberalization. (references)

NIGERIA

However, the era of government appointed "sole administrators" of unions is now over, and the labor movement is increasingly active and vocal on issues seen to attest the plight of the common worker, such as deregulation, privatization, and the government's failure to advance its poverty alleviation program. (references)

Political Rights

Mongolia

Women and women's organizations are vocal in local and national politics and actively seek greater representation by women in government policymaking. (references)

Travel

Philippines

Americans with vocal talents can score in the Philippines. (references)

Women

Liberia

Throughout the year, professional women's groups--including lawyers, market women, and businesswomen--remained vocal about their concerns regarding government corruption, the economy, security abuses, rape, domestic violence, and children's rights. (references)

Worker Rights

Burkina Faso

They represent a wide ideological spectrum; the largest and most vocal member espouses socialist doctrine. (references)

Ghana

Led by experienced union leaders, the TUC has been a vocal and constructive critic of the Government's economic policies. (references)

Belarus

Although wary in the past of challenging the regime seriously, some FTUB leaders have become increasingly vocal in their criticism of the policies of the Lukashenka regime. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "vocal": Accidental Common Vocal ♦ false vocal cord ♦ false vocal fold ♦ inferior vocal cord ♦ inferior vocal fold ♦ puberty vocal change ♦ superior vocal cord ♦ true vocal cord ♦ true vocal fold ♦ vocal audiometry ♦ vocal band ♦ vocal chord ♦ vocal chords ♦ vocal compositions ♦ vocal cord ♦ Vocal Cord Paralysis ♦ vocal cords ♦ vocal database ♦ vocal dysfunction ♦ vocal fold ♦ vocal fremitus ♦ vocal music ♦ vocal organ ♦ vocal organs ♦ vocal range ♦ vocal resonance ♦ vocal tube. Additional references.

Beginning with "vocal": vocal-auditory, vocal-cord.

Ending with "vocal": non-vocal.

Albanian

vokal, zanor (phonic, sonic, vocalic), tingull zanor, muzikë vokale, i zhurmshëm (clamorous, knock about, loud, loudmouthed, obstreperous, roaring, robustious, roistering, rumbustious, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏صوتي (acoustic, phonetic, phonic, sonic, voiced), ‏صوت ملفوظ, ‏أغنية (au bade, song). (various references)

Bulgarian 

гласовит (vociferous), гласов (phonic), гласна (vowel), гласен звук, гласен (vocalic), вокален, звънлив (resonant, ringing, silvery, vibrant), звучен (deep-mouthed, full, liquid, melodious, orotund, resounding, ringing, rotund, round, smacking, soft, sonant, soniferous, sonorous, sounding, sweet, tuneful, vibrant, voiced, voiceful), певечески. (various references)

Chinese 

發聲 , 声音 (sound, Vocally, VOICE). (various references)

Czech

vokální, hlasový, hlasitý (load, loud, lusty, strident). (various references)

Danish

vikarierende glottis (vicarious vocal folds), vokalmusik (vocal music), plica vocalis (true vocal cords, vocal folds), stemmebaandsbevaegelser (vocal folds movement), stemmebaand (vocal cord, vocal cords, vocal folds), stemmebåndet (true vocal cords, vocal folds), stemmeapparatet (phonation apparatus, vocal apparatus), spontant stemmebaandshaematom (spontaneous vocal cord haematoma), stemmebaandsparalyse (vocal folds paralysis), randforskydning af stemmebåndets mucosa (displacement of the vocal cord mucosa), stemmebaandsvibration (vocal cord vibration, vocal folds vibration), kordotomi (chordotomy, cordotomy, vocal cord section), internusparese (vocal folds paralysis), internusparalyse (vocal folds paralysis), dysfoni (dysphonia, vocal dysfunction), corditis cantorum (chorditis cantorum, inflammation of vocal cords, singers'chorditis), resonansrum (larynx tube, resonating cavities, vocal tract), stemmeomfang (vocal capacity), uddata i form af syntetisk tale (vocal output), taleorgan (speech organ, vocal organ), talehåndteringsdatabase (vocal database, voice management database), taledatabase (vocal database, voice management database), taleaudiometri (speech audiometry, vocal audiometry), stemmebaandsparese (vocal folds paralysis), stemmevibration (pectoral fremitus, vocal fremitus), aendring af stemmebaandenes placering (displacement of the vocal cords), stemmelaebevibration (vocal folds vibration), stemmelaeber (vocal cords, vocal folds), stemmelaebebevaegelser (vocal folds movement), stemmefremitus (pectoral fremitus, vocal fremitus), stemmeforstyrrelse (dysphonia, vocal dysfunction), stemmebaandssvingning (vibrations of the vocal chords), symmetriske stemmebåndsknuder (kissing nodules of the vocal cords). (various references)

Dutch

vocale muziek (vocal music), vocale database (vocal database, voice management database), verplaatsing van de stembanden (displacement of the vocal cords), verlamming van de stembanden (vocal folds paralysis), vocale uitvoer (vocal output), stemplooi (true vocal cords, vocal folds), chorditis cantorum (chorditis cantorum, inflammation of vocal cords, singers'chorditis), chordotomie (vocal cord section), elkaar rakende noduli aan de plicae vocales (kissing nodules of the vocal cords), plica vocalis (true vocal cords, vocal folds), spraakaudiometrie (speech audiometry, vocal audiometry), spraakdatabase (vocal database, voice management database), spraakorgaan (speech organ, vocal organ), beweging van de stembanden (vocal folds movement), stemomvang (vocal capacity), stemplooien (vocal folds), trilling van de stemplooier (vocal folds vibration), trillingen der stembanden (vibrations of the vocal chords), stembanden (vocal cords, vocal folds). (various references)

Farsi 

ویژه خواندن , وازی , صوتی (Phomenic, Sonant, Sonic, Vowel), صدا (Call, Calling, Noise, Phone, Phoneme, Report, Sonance, Sound, Tingle, Tone, Toom, Vocation, Voice, Yell), خواندنی (Readable), دهن دریده . (various references)

Finnish

laulullinen, äänellinen. (various references)

French

vocal, chant. (various references)

German

stimmlich. (various references)

Greek 

φωνητικόσ (phonemic, phonic), ομιλητικόσ (chatty, communicative, conversational, homiletic, sleeky, sociable, talkative). (various references)

Hebrew 

ווקאלי, קולי (phonic, sonic). (various references)

Hungarian

magánhangzói. (various references)

Italian

vocale (vowel). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ボーア磁子 (balk, bauxite, boatswain, Boeing, Bohr magneton, bow, bow collar, bowing, boy, boy friend, boy hunt, Boy Scouts, boy soprano, boyish, vocal solo, vocalist, vogue), ヴァチカン市国 (bolt, valid, valkyrie, valve, vampire, variable, variation, variety, Vatican City State, velocity, vendor, Venus, videotape, viola, vision, vocalist, voicing, volt, volume, vorpal, wizard), 有声 (voiced). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ボーカル , ヴォーカル , ゆうせい (dominance, eugenic, living a quiet life in seclusion away from the masses, male characteristics, manliness, planet, postal system, predominance, preponderance, sexual, superior power, superiority, voiced, wandering star, worrying about world conditions). (various references)

Korean 

음성. (various references)

Manx

gooagh (loquacious, sonant, vocalic, voiced, wordy), coraagh (vocalic, voiced). (various references)

Pig Latin

ocalvay.(various references)

Portuguese

vocal (phonal, phonic), vocálico (phonal, vocalic), verbal (oral, phonal, phonic, unwritten, verbal, viva), sonoro (euphonious, harmonious, loud, mouth-filling, orotund, phonal, plangent, reverberant, reverberating, ringing, rotund, sonant, soniferous, sonorous, sounding, vibrant, voiced), relativo a voz (phonal, phonic), oral (nuncupative, oral, orally, phonal, unwritten, viva), falado ou cantado (phonal, phonic). (various references)

Romanian

vocal (vocally), sonor (canorous, deep-toned, echoing, loud, orotund, resonant, resounding, ringing, rotund, round, soft, sonorous, sonorously, sound, voiced, voiceful), cântãreţ (artiste, bard, chanter, chorister, crooner, parish clerk, poet, singer, singing, songster, vocalist). (various references)

Russian 

устный (oral, spoken, verbal), голосовой (phonal, phonic), вокальный, звуковой (audible, phonic, sonic, sound). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vokalni, vokalan (vocalic), samoglasnik (vowel), glasni, bučan (boisterous, clamorous, earsplitting, loud, noisy, obstreperous, plangent, rambunctious, roistering, rumbustious, tin-pan, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous). (various references)

Spanish

vocal (vowel). (various references)

Swedish

sång-, röst-. (various references)

Turkish

vokal, sesli harf (sonant, vowel), sesli (forte, noisy, out loud, sonant, sounding, vociferous, voiced, vowel), sesle ilgili (acoustic, phonic, sonic), ses (acoustic, audio, call, clatter, cry, noise, phonic, phono-, shout, sonance, sonic, sono-, sound, speech, tone, voice, vote, vox), sözlü (fiancee, nuncupative, oral, oral examination, parol, verbal, verbatim, Viva, viva voce, word of mouth), lâfını sakınmaz, konuşkan (articulate, chatty, communicative, conversational, forthcoming, Gabby, garrulous, glib, gushy, loquacious, talkative, talky, voluble). (various references)

Ukrainian

усний (nuncupative, oral, spoken, verbal), розмовний (chatty, colloquial, conversational, idiomatic, idiomatical, interlocutory), гучний (altisonant, big, boffo, deep-mouthed, exclamatory, loud, orotund, reverberating, spoken, wild), голосовий (phonal), голосний звук (vowel). (various references)

Vietnamese 

to tiếng. (various references)

Welsh

lleisiol, llafar (loud, speech, utterance). (various references)

phonetikos. (various references)

vocalis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "vocal": vocalic, vocalically, vocalics, vocalise, vocalised, vocalises, vocalising, vocalism, vocalisms, vocalist, vocalists, vocalities, vocality, vocalization, vocalizations, vocalize, vocalized, vocalizer, vocalizers, vocalizes, vocalizing, vocally, vocals. (additional references)

Words ending with "vocal": equivocal, nonvocal, subvocal, unequivocal, univocal, unvocal. (additional references)

Words containing "vocal": devocalize, devocalized, devocalizes, devocalizing, equivocalities, equivocality, equivocally, equivocalness, equivocalnesses, intervocalic, intervocalically, misvocalization, misvocalizations, postvocalic, prevocalic, subvocalization, subvocalizations, subvocalize, subvocalized, subvocalizes, subvocalizing, subvocally, unequivocally, univocally, univocals. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Vocal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: avocal, coval, Covall, gvcac, Ovoca, Vaca, vacas, vca, veca, vican, viscal, voal, vocab, vocale, vocce, vocem, vocum, vok, vopal, vosa, Vova. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: calo, coal, cola, loca, oval.

-2 letters: avo, col, lac, lav, oca, ova, vac.

-3 letters: al, la, lo.

+1 letter: alcove, coeval, vocals.

+2 letters: alcoved, alcoves, coaeval, coevals, lavrock, octaval, unvocal, vacuole, vocable, vocably, vocalic, vocally, volcano, voltaic.

+3 letters: calvados, cavalero, coaevals, coevally, colluvia, conclave, corrival, covalent, coverall, evocable, gavelock, havelock, laverock, lavrocks, locative, nonvocal, novercal, outcavil, overcall, ovicidal, oviducal, subvocal, univocal, vacuolar, vacuoles, vocables, vocalics, vocalise, vocalism, vocalist, vocality, vocalize, volcanic, volcanos, vortical.