vocaladjective
uk/ˈvəʊ.kəl/us/ˈvoʊ.kəl/vocal adjective (OF THE VOICE)
relating to or produced by the voice, either in singing or speaking:
a piece of vocal music
The six principal roles in this opera have an average vocal range of two octaves.
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- There was a soft nodule on my vocal cord.
- Her remarkable vocal range spanned three and a half octaves.
- We listened to the pure vocal tones of the choirboy.
- I played some vocal music.
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Ways of speaking
- accent
- accentuate
- aitch
- asperity
- BBC English
- breathe
- cut glass
- get your tongue around/round sth idiom
- intone
- lenis
- modulate
- monotone
- plummy
- pragmatics
- singsong
- soft-spoken
- sotto voce
- speech therapy
- spoken
- trip off the tongue idiom
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Describing qualities of the human voice
vocal adjective (OFTEN HEARD)
often expressing opinions and complaints in speech:
He had always been a very vocal critic of the president.
During these years, suffrage demands by women became increasingly vocal.
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Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour
- baldly
- blunt
- bluntly
- brusque
- brutal
- forward
- frank
- in a word idiom
- in the raw idiom
- man-to-man
- mince
- not mince (your) words idiom
- pull
- raw
- shoot from the hip idiom
- straight
- term
- terse
- unvarnished
- woman-to-woman
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vocally
adverb uk/ˈvəʊ.kəl.i/us/ˈvoʊ.kəl.i/
vocalnoun [ C usually plural ]
uk/ˈvəʊ.kəl/us/ˈvoʊ.kəl/the singing in a piece of popular music:
The vocals are shared by two members of the band.
Who is that on vocals (= singing)?
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Singing
- a cappella
- accompaniment
- accompany
- alto
- anthem
- barbershop
- dirge
- ditty
- diva
- duet
- elegy
- intonation
- jingle
- refrain
- sang
- septet
- serenade
- sextet
- shanty
- treble
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