Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 25
Voiced (imp. & p. p.) of Voice.
Voicing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Voice.
Voice (v. t.) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce; to divulge; as, to voice the sentiments of the nation. "Rather assume thy right in silence and . . . then voice it with claims and challenges." -- Bacon.
It was voiced that the king purposed to put to death Edward Plantagenet. -- Bacon.
Voice (v. t.) (Phon.) To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.
Voice (v. t.) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
Voice (v. t.) To vote; to elect; to appoint. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Voice (v. i.) To clamor; to cry out. [Obs.] -- South.
Voice (n.) The distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech; "A shrill voice sounded behind us."
Voice (n.) The sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract; "a singer takes good care of his voice"; "the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations" [syn: voice, vocalization, vocalisation, vocalism, phonation, vox].
Voice (n.) A sound suggestive of a vocal utterance; "the noisy voice of the waterfall"; "the incessant voices of the artillery."
Voice (n.) Expressing in coherent verbal form; "the articulation of my feelings"; "I gave voice to my feelings" [syn: articulation, voice].
Voice (n.) A means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated; "the voice of the law"; "the Times is not the voice of New York"; "conservatism has many voices."
Voice (n.) Something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression; "the wee small voice of conscience"; "the voice of experience"; "he said his voices told him to do it."
Voice (n.) (Metonymy) A singer; "he wanted to hear trained voices sing it."
Voice (n.) An advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose; "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government" [syn: spokesperson, interpreter, representative, voice].
Voice (n.) The ability to speak; "he lost his voice."
Voice (n.) (Linguistics) The grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes.
Voice (n.) The melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music; "he tried to sing the tenor part" [syn: part, voice].
Voice (v.) Give voice to; "He voiced his concern."
Voice (v.) Utter with vibrating vocal chords [syn: voice, sound, vocalize, vocalise] [ant: devoice].
VOICE, () Virtual OS/2 International Consumer Education (OS/2, user group, org.)
Voice (v. t.) To phone someone, as opposed to emailing them or connecting in talk mode.
?I'm busy now; I'll voice you later.?
Voiced (a.) Furnished with a voice; expressed by the voice.
Voiced (a.) (Phon.) Uttered with voice; pronounced with vibrations of the vocal cords; sonant; -- said of a sound uttered with the glottis narrowed.
Voiced stop, Voice stop (Phon.), A stopped consonant made with tone from the larynx while the mouth organs are closed at some point; a sonant mute, as b, d, g hard.
Voiceful (a.) Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding.
Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. -- Coleridge.
Voiceless (a.) Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb.
I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword. -- Byron.
Voiceless (a.) (Phon.) Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd.
Voiceless stop (Phon.), A consonant made with no audible sound except in the transition to or from another sound; a surd mute, as p, t, k. -- Voice"less*ly, adv. -- Voice"less*ness, n.
Voiceless (a.) Produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'" [syn: unvoiced, voiceless, surd, hard] [ant: soft, sonant, voiced].
Voiceless (a.) Deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote; "labor was voiceless"; "disenfrenchised masses took to the streets" [syn: disenfranchised, disfranchised, voiceless, voteless] [ant: enfranchised].
Voiceless (a.) Uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'"; "voiceless whispers" [syn: breathed, voiceless].
Voiceless (a.) Being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech [syn: aphonic, voiceless].
Voicemail (n.) A computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed [syn: voice mail, voicemail].
Voicemail (n.) [ C or U ] 語音信箱（一種電子電話應答系統） A phone message recorded by someone when you do not answer their call, or a number of these messages.
Void (a.) Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
Void (a.) Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like.
Void (a.) Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning, or of common use.
Void (a.) Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
Void (a.) Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
Void (a.) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2.
Void (n.) An empty space; a vacuum.
Voided (imp. & p. p.) of Void.
Voiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Void.
Void (a.) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table.
Void (a.) To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements.
Void (a.) To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify.
Void (v. i.) To be emitted or evacuated.
Voidable (a.) Capable of being voided, or evacuated.
Voidable (a.) Capable of being avoided, or of being adjudged void, invalid, and of no force; capable of being either avoided or confirmed.
Voidance (n.) The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating.
Voidance (n.) A ejection from a benefice.
Voidance (n.) The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice which is without an incumbent.
Voidance (n.) Evasion; subterfuge.
Voided (a.) Emptied; evacuated.
Voided (a.) Annulled; invalidated.
Voided (a.) Having the inner part cut away, or left vacant, a narrow border being left at the sides, the tincture of the field being seen in the vacant space; -- said of a charge.
Voider (n.) One who, or that which, voids, ?mpties, vacates, or annuls.
Voider (n.) A tray, or basket, formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc.
Voider (n.) A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal.
Voider (n.) One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller.
Voiding (n.) The act of one who, or that which, voids. -- Bp. Hall.
Voiding (n.) That which is voided; that which is ejected or evacuated; a remnant; a fragment. [R.] -- Rowe.
Voiding knife, A knife used for gathering up fragments of food to put them into a voider.
Voiding (a.) Receiving what is ejected or voided. "How in our voiding lobby hast thou stood?" -- Shak.
Voiding (n.) The bodily process of discharging waste matter [syn: elimination, evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding].
Voidness (n.) The quality or state of being void; emptiness; vacuity; nullity; want of substantiality.
Voir dire () (Law) An oath administered to a witness, usually before being sworn in chief, requiring him to speak the truth, or make true answers in reference to matters inquired of, to ascertain his competency to give evidence. -- Greenleaf. Ld. Abinger.
Voiture (n.) A carriage. -- Arbuthnot.
Voivode (n.) See Waywode. -- Longfellow.
Compare: Waywode
Waywode (n.) Originally, the title of a military commander in various Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars, and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers. [Written also vaivode, voivode, waiwode, and woiwode.]
Volacious (a.) Apt or fit to fly. [R.]
Volador (n.) (Zool.) A flying fish of California (Exoc/tus Californicus): -- called also volator.
Volador (n.) The Atlantic flying gurnard. See under Flying.
Volage (a.) Light; giddy. [Obs.]
They wroughten all their lust volage. -- Chaucer.
Volant (a.) Passing through the air upon wings, or as if upon wings; flying; hence, passing from place to place; current.
English silver now was current, and our gold volant in the pope's court. -- Fuller.
Volant (a.) Nimble; light and quick; active; rapid. "His volant touch." -- Milton.
Volant (a.) Represented as flying, or having the wings spread; as, an eagle volant.
Volante (n.) A cumbrous two-wheeled pleasure carriage used in Cuba.
Volapuk (n.) Literally, world's speech; the name of an artificial language invented by Johan Martin Schleyer, of Constance, Switzerland, about 1879. For more about "planned languages", see Esperanto.
Volapuk (n.) One of the first artificial language constructed for use as an auxiliary international language; based largely on English but with some German and French and Latin roots.
Volapukist (n.) One who is conversant with, or who favors adoption of, Volapuk.
Volar (a.) Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.
Volar (a.) Relating to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot; "the volar surface"; "the palmar muscle" [syn: palmar, volar].
Volary (n.) See Volery. [Obs.]
Volary (n.) A building where birds are kept [syn: aviary, bird sanctuary, volary].
Volatile (a.) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly. [Obs.]
Volatile (a.) Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aeriform state; subject to evaporation.
Note: Substances which affect the smell with pungent or fragrant odors, as musk, hartshorn, and essential oils, are called volatile substances, because they waste away on exposure to the atmosphere. Alcohol and ether are called volatile liquids for a similar reason, and because they easily pass into the state of vapor on the application of heat. On the contrary, gold is a fixed substance, because it does not suffer waste, even when exposed to the heat of a furnace; and oils are called fixed when they do not evaporate on simple exposure to the atmosphere.
Volatile (a.) Fig.: Light-hearted; easily affected by circumstances; airy; lively; hence, changeable; fickle; as, a volatile temper.
You are as giddy and volatile as ever. -- Swift.
Volatile alkali. (Old Chem.) See under Alkali.
Volatile liniment, A liniment composed of sweet oil and ammonia, so called from the readiness with which the latter evaporates.
Volatile oils. (Chem.) See Essential oils, under Essential.
Volatile (n.) A winged animal; wild fowl; game. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. -- Sir T. Browne. Volatileness
Volatile (a.) Evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures; "volatile oils"; "volatile solvents" [ant: nonvolatile, nonvolatilisable, nonvolatilizable].
Volatile (a.) Liable to lead to sudden change or violence; "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation" [syn: explosive, volatile].
Volatile (a.) Marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections" [syn: fickle, volatile].
Volatile (a.) Tending to vary often or widely; "volatile stocks"; "volatile emotions."
Volatile (n.) A volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor; "it was heated to evaporate the volatiles."
Volatile, () Volatile variable.
Volatile, () See non-volatile storage.
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Volatileness (n.) Alt. of Volatility.
Volatility (n.) Quality or state of being volatile; disposition to evaporate; changeableness; fickleness.
Syn: See Levity.
Volatilizable (a.) Capable of being volatilized.
Volatilizable (a.) (Used of substances) capable of being volatilized [syn: evaporable, vaporific, vapourific, vaporizable, vapourisable, volatilizable, volatilisable].
Volatilization (n.) The act or process of volatilizing, or rendering volatile; the state of being volatilized.
Volatilized (imp. & p. p.) of Volatilize.
Volatilizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Volatilize.
Volatilize (v. t.) To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor.
The water . . . dissolving the oil, and volatilizing it by the action. -- Sir I. Newton.
Volatilize (v.) Make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor [syn: volatilize, volatilise].
Volador (n.) [Sp.] (Zool.) (a) A flying fish of California ({Exoc[oe]tus Californicus): -- called also volator.
Volador (n.) [Sp.] (Zool.) (b) The Atlantic flying gurnard. See under Flying.
Volator (n.) [NL.] (Zool.) Same as Volador, 1.
Vol-au-vent (n.) [F.] (Cookery) A light puff paste, with a raised border, filled, after baking, usually with a ragout of fowl, game, or fish.
Vol-au-vent (n.) Puff paste shell filled with a savory meat mixture usually with a sauce.
Volborthite (n.) (Min.) A mineral occurring in small six-sided tabular crystals of a green or yellow color. It is a hydrous vanadate of copper and lime.
Volcanian (a.) Volcanic. [R.] -- Keats.
Volcanic (a.) Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.
Volcanic (a.) Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies; as, volcanic tufa.
Volcanic (a.) Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
Volcanic bomb, A mass ejected from a volcano, often of molten lava having a rounded form.
Volcanic cone, A hill, conical in form, built up of cinders, tufa, or lava, during volcanic eruptions.
Volcanic foci, The subterranean centers of volcanic action; the points beneath volcanoes where the causes producing volcanic phenomena are most active.
Volcanic glass, The vitreous form of lava, produced by sudden cooling; obsidian. See Obsidian.
Volcanic mud, Fetid, sulphurous mud discharged by a volcano.
Volcanic rocks, Rocks which have been produced from the discharges of volcanic matter, as the various kinds of basalt, trachyte, scoria, obsidian, etc., whether compact, scoriaceous, or vitreous.
Volcanic (a.) Relating to or produced by or consisting of volcanoes; "volcanic steam"; "volcanic islands such as Iceland"; "a volcanic cone is a conical mountain or hill built up of material from volcanic eruptions."
Volcanic (a.) Explosively unstable; "a volcanic temper."
Volcanic (a.) Igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt; "volcanic rock includes the volcanic glass obsidian."
Volcanically (adv.) Like a volcano.
Volcanically (adv.) By or like volcanoes; "volcanically created landscape."
Volcanicity (n.) Quality or state of being volcanic; volcanic power.
Volcanism (n.) Volcanic power or action; volcanicity.
Volcanism (n.) The phenomena associated with volcanic activity
Volcanist (n.) One versed in the history and phenomena of volcanoes.
Volcanist (n.) One who believes in the igneous, as opposed to the aqueous, origin of the rocks of the earth's crust; a vulcanist. Cf. Neptunist.
Volcanity (n.) The quality or state of being volcanic, or volcanic origin; volcanicity. [R.]
Volcanization (n.) The act of volcanizing, or the state of being volcanized; the process of undergoing volcanic heat, and being affected by it.
Volcanized (imp. & p. p.) of Volcanize.
Volcanizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Volcanize.
Volcanize (v. t.) To subject to, or cause to undergo, volcanic heat, and to be affected by its action.
Volcanoes (n. pl. ) of Volcano.
Volcano (n.) (Geol.) 火山 A mountain or hill, usually more or less conical in form, from which lava, cinders, steam, sulphur gases, and the like, are ejected; -- often popularly called a burning mountain.
Note: Volcanoes include many of the most conspicuous and lofty mountains of the earth, as Mt. Vesuvius in Italy (4,000 ft. high), Mt. Loa in Hawaii (14,000 ft.), Cotopaxi in South America (nearly 20,000 ft.), which are examples of active volcanoes. The crater of a volcano is usually a pit-shaped cavity, often of great size. The summit crater of Mt. Loa has a maximum length of 13,000 ft., and a depth of nearly 800 feet. Beside the chief crater, a volcano may have a number of subordinate craters.
Volcano (n.) A fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt [syn: vent, volcano].
Volcano (n.) A mountain formed by volcanic material.
Volcano (n.) [ C ] (pl. volcanoes or volcanos) (B2) 火山 A mountain with a large, circular hole at the top through which lava (= hot liquid rock) gases, steam, and dust are or have been forced out.
// An extinct/ dormant volcano.
// An active volcano.
// Erupting volcanoes discharge massive quantities of dust into the stratosphere.
Vole (n.) [F.] A deal at cards that draws all the tricks. -- Swift.
Vole (v. i.) (Card Playing) To win all the tricks by a vole. -- Pope.
Vole (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of micelike rodents belonging to Arvicola and allied genera of the subfamily Arvicolinae.
They have a thick head, short ears, and a short hairy tail.
Note: The water vole, or water rat, of Europe ({Arvicola amphibius) is a common large aquatic species. The short-tailed field vole ({Arvicola agrestis) of Northern and Central Europe, and Asia, the Southern field vole ({Arvicola arvalis), and the Siberian root vole ({Arvicola oeconomus), are important European species. The common species of the Eastern United States ({Arvicola riparius) (called also meadow mouse) and the prairie mouse ({Arvicola austerus}) are abundant, and often injurious to vegetation. Other species are found in Canada.
Vole (n.) Any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows [syn: vole, field mouse].
Volery (n.) A flight of birds. [R.] -- Locke.
Volery (n.) A large bird cage; an aviary.
Volge (n.) The common sort of people; the crowd; the mob.
Volitable (a.) Volatilizable.
Volitation (n.) The act of flying; flight.
Volitient (a.) Exercising the will; acting from choice; willing, or having power to will.
Volition (n.) 意志；決斷力；選擇；決定 The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will.
Volition is the actual exercise of the power the mind has to order the consideration of any idea, or the forbearing to consider it. -- Locke.
Volition is an act of the mind, knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it in, or withholding it from, any particular action. -- Locke.
Volition (n.) The result of an act or exercise of choosing or willing; a state of choice.
Volition (n.) The power of willing or determining; will.
Syn: Will; choice; preference; determination; purpose.
Usage: Volition, Choice. Choice is the familiar, and volition the scientific, term for the same state of the will; viz., an "elective preference." When we have "made up our minds" (as we say) to a thing, i. e., have a settled state of choice respecting it, that state is called an immanent volition; when we put forth any particular act of choice, that act is called an emanent, or executive, or imperative, volition.
When an immanent, or settled state of, choice, is one which controls or governs a series of actions, we call that state a predominant volition; while we give the name of subordinate volitions to those particular acts of choice which carry into effect the object sought for by the governing or "predominant volition." See Will.
Volition (n.) The capability of conscious choice and decision and intention; "the exercise of their volition we construe as revolt"- George Meredith [syn: volition, will].
Volition (n.) The act of making a choice; "followed my father of my own volition" [syn: volition, willing].
Volitional (a.) 有意志的；自願做的 Belonging or relating to volition. "The volitional impulse." -- Bacon.
Volitional (a.) With deliberate intention; "a volitional act."