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  • adjective Not vocal; destitute of tone.

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  • adjective Not vocal; silent; not using one's voice.

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Examples

  • To test out a correlation between intelligence and preferring the nonvocal classics, researchers drew on the 1993 edition of the General Social Survey, conducted by the National Opinion Research Center.

    Week in Ideas Christopher Shea 2011

  • Using nonvocal cues to gain students' attention, whether that's raising a hand, clapping or ringing a bell.

    Michael J. Pitman, M.D.: Saving the Most Valuable Teaching Tool -- Teachers' Voices M.D. Michael J. Pitman 2011

  • Using nonvocal cues to gain students' attention, whether that's raising a hand, clapping or ringing a bell.

    Michael J. Pitman, M.D.: Saving the Most Valuable Teaching Tool -- Teachers' Voices M.D. Michael J. Pitman 2011

  • Rather we argue that the “language brain” emerged from an intermediate and somewhat less primitive specialization of the left hemisphere—namely, its specialization for routine communication, both vocal and nonvocal.

    SciAm Mind - Evolutionary Origins of Your Right and Left Brain William Harryman 2009

  • Much of our emotional communication in the real world uses body language and other nonvocal cues – in the pure text world we are reduced to being terribly obvious, which will, yes, come off as affected.

    Exploding the Heads of Browncoats Everywhere « Whatever 2008

  • But, if truth be told, the delivery became wearisome by the second half; the final work, Weill's nonvocal "Threepenny Opera" suite, "Kleine Dreigroschenmusik für Orchester," came as a genuine balm for these ears.

    Music of the Weimar Republic -- 2007

  • Lucas was even trying to say “Lampa,” and his parents were greatly impressed with the positive impact yoga had on their nonvocal baby in just three classes.

    Itsy Bitsy Yoga Helen Garabedian 2004

  • Lucas was even trying to say “Lampa,” and his parents were greatly impressed with the positive impact yoga had on their nonvocal baby in just three classes.

    Itsy Bitsy Yoga Helen Garabedian 2004

  • Then she played a nonvocal Vulcan piece followed by "Beyond Antares."

    Pawns and Symbols Majliss Larson 2000

  • The nonvocal hemisphere appears to be quite cognisant of the person's daily and weekly schedules, the calendar, seasons, and important dates of the year.

    Roger W. Sperry - Nobel Lecture 1981

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