Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A word considered only as a sequence of sounds or letters rather than as a unit of meaning.
- adjective Capable of being voiced or spoken.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered without regard to meaning, but merely as composed of certain sounds or letters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun linguistics A
word orutterance , especially with reference to itsform rather than itsmeaning . - noun music A
syllable orsound without specific meaning, used together with or in place of actual words in asong . - adjective linguistics
Able to beuttered .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a word that is spoken aloud
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Adonis _Adonis_ apropos _apropo_ bowsprit _bowsprit_ brooch _broch_ not _broosh_ compromise _compromize_ jowl _jol_, not like _owl_ molecular _molecular_ ogle _ogle_ trow _tro_ vocable _vocable_ zoology _zoology_, not _zoo_
Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood
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Further, an approach to symbolic description of musical sounds informed by human perception termed vocable synthesis is provided by McLean and Wiggins 2009.
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Further, an approach to symbolic description of musical sounds informed by human perception termed vocable synthesis is provided by McLean and Wiggins 2009.
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2007 – Got interested in timbre and the voice, came up with the idea vocable synthesis.
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2007 – Got interested in timbre and the voice, came up with the idea vocable synthesis.
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Categories events haskell livecoding misc music openframeworks papers perl rant supercollider visualisation vocable voronoi wovensound
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Categories events haskell livecoding misc music openframeworks papers perl rant supercollider visualisation vocable voronoi wovensound
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Categories events haskell livecoding misc music openframeworks papers perl rant supercollider visualisation vocable voronoi wovensound
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The changing nuances, the the fine and shaded colorations of the feminine vowels are married to the consonants which outline the masculine structure of the vocable.
Sense & Sensuality 2009
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Un groupe du Parti libéral du Québec voulait proposer une «proclamation de la citoyenneté québécoise» au prochain congrès libéral mais a dû renoncer à ce vocable après le dépôt du projet de loi 195 du Parti québécois.
Memo to Sanctimonious Liberal Bloggers uncorrectedproofs 2007
ruzuzu commented on the word vocable
"A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered without regard to meaning, but merely as composed of certain sounds or letters."
--Century Dictionary
March 9, 2011