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VOCALISM

Definitions: VOCALISM

VOCALISM

Noun

1. A vocalic sound.

2. The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "VOCALISM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references)

Modern Translations: VOCALISM

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

Chinese 

  

发声. (various references)

   

Italian

  

vocalizzo. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ocalismvay

   

Turkish

  

sesli harf sistemi, sesi kullanma. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nghệ thuật hát. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: VOCALISM

Derivations

Words beginning with "VOCALISM": vocalisms. (additional references)


Misspellings

"VOCALISM" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: socalism, vocalese, vocalis, vocalise. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "VOCALISM"

Words rhyming with "VOCALISM" (pronounced 'Vo"cal*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references)

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Anagrams: VOCALISM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: cavils, claims, mosaic, ovisac, social, violas, vocals, vomica.

-3 letters: aviso, calms, calos, cavil, claim, clams, clavi, coals, coils, colas, comal, comas, laics, limas, limos, loams, mails, malic, mavis, micas, milos, moils, molas, osmic, ovals, salic, salmi, salvo, silva, vails, vials, viola, viols, vocal, voila.

-4 letters: ails, aims, alms, also, amis, asci, avos, calm.

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

+1 letter: vocalisms, volcanism.

 

+2 letters: overclaims, volcanisms.

 

+5 letters: microvascular, provincialism, vocationalism.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VOCALISM


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

56 4F 43 41 4C 49 53 4D

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 01001111 01000011 01000001 01001100 01001001 01010011 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#79 &#67 &#65 &#76 &#73 &#83 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 004F 0043 0041 004C 0049 0053 004D

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

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

5649373546435347

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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