Voice - Definition and Overview

The word voice can mean:

• The human voice.

• A section of a choir or other musical ensemble that sings or plays the same part.

• The register of a line of counterpoint, including soprano, alto, tenor, bass. These terms come the section of the choir to which a line would be given (the soprano voice would have been given to the soprano voices).

• The tone of a piece of writing, influenced by its point of view.

• In phonetics and phonology, a phone or phoneme is said to be voiced if it is produced with the vocal folds vibrating. See phonation.

• In grammar, voice is a verb-form that indicates the relationship between the subject and the action expressed by the verb. See grammatical voice

• In voting, see voice vote.

External links

• DICT Development Group entry on "voice" (http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=Voice)