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Vocalisation

noun
1.
The sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract.  Synonyms: phonation, vocalism, vocalization, voice, vox.  "The giraffe cannot make any vocalizations"






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"Vocalisation" Quotes from Famous Books



... give the children your message, but I fear I failed ignominiously in giving the proper bovine vocalisation to "Mroo." ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley

... just bumped Univ., exactly opposite the Judas barge. The oarsmen in either boat sat humped, panting, some of them rocking and writhing, after their wholesome exercise. But there was not one of them whose eyes were not upcast at Zuleika. And the vocalisation and instrumentation of the dancers and stampers on the towing-path had by this time ceased to mean aught of joy in the victors or of comfort for the vanquished, and had resolved itself into a wild wordless hymn to the glory of Miss Dobson. Behind her and all around her on the roof of the barge, ...
— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm



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