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Vocalise

Definitions: Vocalise

Vocalise

Verb

1. Sing with one vowel.

2. Pronounce as a vowel.

3. Express or state clearly.

4. Utter with vibrating vocal chords.

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

Date "vocalise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

"Vocalise" is a common misspelling or typo for: vocalism, vocalist, vocalize, vocalized.

Synonyms: Vocalise

Synonyms: articulate (v), enunciate (v), sound (v), vocalize (v), voice (v), vowelize (v). (additional references)
Antonym: devoice (v). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Vocalise

DomainTitle

Books

  • Vocalizacion Aguda: Coloratura Vocalise for Flute & Piano (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Vocalise

"Vocalise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Vocalise" is used about 10 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)60%6143,867
Noun (singular)20%2245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)10%1339,140
Noun (proper)10%1339,140
                    Total100.00%10N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vocalise

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  vocalise

20

  rachmaninoff vocalise

5

  rachmaninov vocalise

4

  rachmaninoff vocalise wav

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Vocalise

Language Translations for "vocalise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Italian

  

vocalizzare (vocalize), esprimere (convey, couch, express, express oneself, pass, put, speak, vocalize, voice, word). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ocalisevay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Vocalise

Derivations

Words beginning with "vocalise": vocalised, vocalises. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Vocalise

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-o-s-v"

-1 letter: alcoves, celosia, coevals, vesical.

-2 letters: alcove, calves, cavies, cavils, claves, clevis, cloves, coeval, colies, loaves, olives, ovisac, silvae, social, solace, valise, vesica, violas, vocals, voices, voiles.

-3 letters: aisle, alecs, alive, aloes, aviso, calos, calve, caves, cavie, cavil, ceils, clave, clavi, close, clove, coals, coils, colas, coles, cosie, coves, evils, ileac, laces, laevo, laics.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-o-s-v"
 

+1 letter: locatives, vocalised, vocalises, vocalizes.

 

+2 letters: olivaceous, overclaims, violaceous, vocalities, vocalizers.

 

+3 letters: coevalities, copulatives, covalencies, devocalizes, inviolacies, novaculites, subvocalize, varicoceles, veraciously, vorticellas.

 

+4 letters: cocultivates, consultative, convalescing, conversional, correlatives, countervails, discoverable, overclassify, slavocracies, subvocalized, subvocalizes, valedictions, vesiculation, viscoelastic, vocabularies.

 

+5 letters: associatively, cavernicolous, clairvoyances, contrastively, controversial, equivocalness, overreliances, valedictories, valpolicellas, velociraptors, vesiculations, viceroyalties, vivisectional, volcanicities, volcanologies, vulcanologies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Vocalise


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 6F 63 61 6C 69 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    ---    -.-.    .-    .-..    ..    ...    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01101111 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#111 &#99 &#97 &#108 &#105 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 006F 0063 0061 006C 0069 0073 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5681696778758571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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