voice

Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.

• The human voice is the oldest musical instrument in history.
• Stop repeating in that stupid voice what I say.

Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.

The tone or sound emitted by an object.

• And after the earthquake, a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire, a still small voice.
• Canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

The faculty or power of utterance.

• to cultivate the voice

That which is communicated; message; meaning.

• I desire to bee present with you now, and to change my voyce, for I stand in doubt of you.
• My voice is in my sword.

An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered.figuratively

• Sicinius. How now, my masters! have you chose this man? / 1st Citizen. He has our voices, sir.
• Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice / Of holy senates, and elect by voice.

Command; precept.archaic

• As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall yee perish; because ye would not be obedient vnto the voice of the Lord your God.

One who speaks; a speaker.

• a potent voice of Parliament.
• The inclusion of transgender voices further disrupts the homonormalization of sex and identity evident in popular LGBTQ cinema.

A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.

A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, which indicates the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.

• The verbal system of Latin has two voices, active and passive.

To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announcetransitive

• He voiced the sentiments of the nation.

To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.transitive

To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone oftransitive

• voice the pipes of an organ

To vote; to elect; to appointobsoletetransitive

To clamor; to cry outintransitiveobsolete

• If thou wilt give me Davids heart; Ile voyce, / Great God, with David; and make Davids choyce.
• It is not the gift of every Perſon, nor of every Age, to harangue the multitude, to Voice it high and loud, & Dominari in Concionibus.

To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.Internettransitive

• I would like this script to allow me to notice not only the ops in a channel, but also those that have been voiced by the ops, at the same time.
• If you then want others to be able to talk, you can voice them (+v) or if you want everyone able to talk, you can remove the moderation flag on the channel (-m).

To act as a voice actor to portray a character.

• The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek.