单词 | voiced |
释义 | voicedadj. 1. a. With preceding modifying word. Having a voice of the specified kind, quality, or tone.clear-, loud-, low-, sweet-voiced, etc.: see the first element.Earliest recorded in even-voiced (see even-voiced adj. (a) at even adj.1 and n.2 Compounds 3). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] voiced?c1425 ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 383 (MED) If þai haue forsoþe many even-voycede [L. equiuoca] tokenes and many vnuoycede tokenes, þai schal be wiþdrawen fro þe peple. c1475 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 50 Chapleynes and Clerkes..clene voysed, well releesed and pronouncynge. 1528 R. Copland tr. Secrete of Secretes of Arystotle sig. I.i A softe voyced man is often angry and enuyous. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Treble voyced, or shyll tuned. a1634 W. Austin Haec Homo (1637) v. 128 Ovid..advised women (who are so angel-like voyced) to learne by musicks rules, to order it. 1749 A. Hill Gideon (rev. ed.) i. 7 He, sweetlier-voic'd, shall these low Strains despise. 1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 61 Never were rills and fountains So merrily voiced as these. 1973 Gramophone Sept. 579/2 For all his fame and popularity as a velvet-voiced pop singer, the only interest the late Nat Cole has for most jazz lovers is his ability as a pianist. 2004 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 3 Sept. g19 Cannon's tunes recall Tom Waits in his sandpaper-voiced glory. b. With preceding numeral. Having or consisting of the specified number of voices. Now used chiefly of a musical piece or performance. one-, million-, thousand-voiced: see the first element. ΚΠ 1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Pv Nyne voiced mouth The nyne Muses, whereof Vranie was one. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 25 The hundred-voyc't clamor of her multiplied mutinies gainst Heauen. 1799 A. Seward Orig. Sonnets 88 Tho' ten-voiced echoes send the cannon's sound In thunders bursting the vast rocks around. 1834 Georgian Era IV. 280/1 His three-voiced glees comprise: Allen a Dale; Gallant and Gaily; John Anderson, my Jo; and O, Bothwell Bank. 1867 S. Lanier Tiger-lilies i. xv. 113 To it there's a four-voiced accompaniment. 1911 J. Huneker F. Liszt 425 Joseffy was reported as having been discovered in the wilds above Tarrytown playing two-voiced inventions of Bach. 1985 J. Kerman Musicol. 48 The six-voiced madrigal ‘Hard by a Crystal Fountain’, certainly was produced by rewriting a madrigal by the then-popular Venetian composer Giovanni Groce. c. Having a voice like another person or animal. ΚΠ 1642 J. Denham Sophy iv. 34 That's Erythæa, Or some Angell voyc't like her. 1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 106/1 He is like the unweaned lamb,..voiced like Zephyr, or the Lady-Echo. 1854 E. B. Eastwick tr. Anvár-i Suhailí xii. ii. 577 God sent one voiced like Jesus. 1909 Times 6 Nov. 10/3 To Mediterranean peoples the river-god was horned and voiced like a bull. 1997 P. Green tr. Apollonius Rhodius Argonautika 186 We are sheep-herding desert goddesses, voiced like mortals. d. Endowed with or possessing a voice. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [adjective] > having voice voiceful1598 vocal1601 tongued1635 voiceda1821 a1821 J. Keats Wks. (1889) II. 15 Where the germs take buoyant root in stormy Air, suck lightning sap, and become voiced dragons. 1861 J. C. H. Fane & Ld. Lytton Tannhäuser 34 Oft have you flooded this fair space with song, Waked these voiced walls, and vocal made yon roof. 1883 T. G. Hake Serpent Play ii. iii. 32 Who art thou, O voiced Serpent, thus encoiled As when our mother of the fruit partook. 1980 PMLA 95 323/1 At the last moment the unconscious life does seem to spew forward a voiced conscience, accusatory and horrible. 2000 MELUS Autumn 239 The image of a voiced wind recalls the powerful story..where the grasses hold the voices of those who lived among them. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > famous or eminent person > [adjective] mereeOE athelOE couthOE brightOE namecundc1175 outnumenc1175 noble?c1225 ketec1275 sheenc1275 tirfulc1275 glorious13.. losedc1305 of great renownc1330 glorifieda1340 worthly or worthy in wonea1350 clearc1374 nameda1382 solemna1387 renomeda1393 famous?a1400 renomé?a1400 renowneda1400 notedc1400 of (great, high, etc.) name?c1430 celebrate?1440 namely1440 famosec1449 honourable?c1450 notedc1450 parent?c1450 glorificatec1460 heroical?a1475 insignite?a1475 magnific1490 well-fameda1492 exemie1497 singular1497 preclare1503 magnificential1506 laureate1508 illustre?a1513 illustred1512 magnificent1513 preclared1530 grand1542 celebrated1549 heroicc1550 lustrantc1550 magnifical1557 illustrate1562 expectablec1565 ennobled1571 laurel1579 nominated1581 famosed1582 perspicuous1582 big1587 famed1595 uplifted1596 illustrious1598 celebrousc1600 luculent1600 celebrious1604 fameful1605 famoused1606 renownful1606 bruitful1609 eminent1611 insignious1620 clarousa1636 far-fameda1640 top1647 grandee1648 signalized1652 noscible1653 splendid1660 voiced1661 gloried1671 laurelled1683 distinguished1714 distinct1756 lustrious1769 trumpeted1775 spiry1825 world-famous1832 galactic1902 tycoonish1958 mega1987 1661 Life T. Fuller 14 He continued his pious endeavours of preaching in most of the voyced pulpits of London. 3. Phonetics. Produced or uttered with vibration of the vocal cords. Opposed to voiceless. a. Of a speech sound, esp. a consonant. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > voiced or voiceless sound gen > [adjective] > voiced or voicing vocal1668 sonant1808 vocalizing1809 vocular1812 voiced1850 phonetic1864 phonic1877 sonantizing1879 sonantic1892 sonorant1899 1850 E. Hincks On Khorsabad Inscriptions 59 Mr. Ellis..uses ‘spoken’... He has since suggested ‘voiced’, which conveys the required idea, though by a term which is scarcely English. 1876 T. Le M. Douse Grimm's Law App. D. 195 The action of the chordae in the production of voiced sounds. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 64 The pronunciation of certain letters is also somewhat indistinct, especially the voiced explosives such as b, d, g. 1952 R. Jakobson et al. Prelim. Speech Anal. ii. 26 It is highly questionable whether there are languages in which..there actually is a..distinctive opposition of voiced and murmured vowels. 1991 Trans. Philol. Soc. 89 i. 54 Before the phonemic split, there was probably variation between voiceless and voiced allophones. b. Of breath. ΚΠ 1877 H. Sweet Handbk. Phonetics 74 As stops can only be voiced by driving voiced breath into an air-tight chamber, they cannot be continued for any length of time. 1893 Mod. Lang. Notes 8 275 ‘Normal r’ is formed by bringing the tip of the tongue near the roots of the teeth, leaving a small, triangular hole, through which the voiced breath issues with a slight buzz. 1944 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 57 187 The final [u] may be prolonged for some time by not closing the mouth or shutting off the voiced breath completely at once. 1997 TDR 41 148 The work on the voice..had much more to do..with the pushing out or letting flow of a voiced breath in connection with certain consonants and their vowels. Derivatives ˈvoicedness n. Phonetics the quality of being uttered with vibration of the vocal cords. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > voiced or voiceless sound gen > [noun] > voiced sound > quality vocality1645 sonancy1860 voicedness1912 1912 Amer. Anthropologist 14 188 Such words as voicedness and voicelessness are awkward. 1964 L. Kaiser in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 107 In the pair pence-pens it is the duration of [n] which determines the impression of voicedness of the sibilant. 2003 M. Zhou Multilingualism in China vii. 368 In standard Chinese, plosive consonants contrast between aspiratedness and unaspiratedness instead of voicedness and voicelessness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.?c1425 |
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