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Voice can be a verb or a noun.
voice used as a verb:
- To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce; to divulge; as, to voice the sentiments of the nation.
"Rather assume thy right in silence and . . . then voice it with claims and challenges. — Francis Bacon" - To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.
- To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
- To vote; to elect; to appoint — Shakespeare
- To clamor; to cry out, to steven — South
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
voice used as a noun:
- Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; steven; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice.
"He with a manly voice saith his message. — Geoffrey Chaucer" - Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and also whisper.
- The tone or sound emitted by anything
"After the fire a still small voice. — 1 Kings 19:12" - The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the voice
- Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion
"I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. — Galatians 4:20" - Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote.
"Sicinius. How now, my masters! have you chose this man? / 1st Citizen. He has our voices, sir. — Shakespeare, Coriolanus, II-iii" - Command; precept; — now chiefly used in scriptural language.
"So shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the Lord your God. — Deuteronomy 8:20" - One who speaks; a speaker.
"A potent voice of Parliament. — Alfred Tennyson" - A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is voice?
- Verb usage: Rather assume thy right in silence and . . . then voice it with claims and challenges. — Francis Bacon
- Verb usage: It was voiced that the king purposed to put to death Edward Plantagenet. — Francis Bacon
- Noun usage: He with a manly voice saith his message. — Geoffrey Chaucer
- Noun usage: Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman. — Shakespeare, King Lear, V-iii
- Noun usage: Thy voice is music. — Shakespeare, Henry V, V-ii
- Noun usage: Join thy voice unto the angel choir. — John Milton
- Noun usage: After the fire a still small voice. — 1 Kings 19:12
- Noun usage: Canst thou thunder with a voice like him? — Job 40:9
- Noun usage: The floods have lifted up their voice. — Psalms 93:3
- Noun usage: O Marcus, I am warm’d; my heart Leaps at the trumpet’s voice. — Joseph Addison
- Noun usage: I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. — Galatians 4:20
- Noun usage: My voice is in my sword. — Shakespeare, Macbeth, V-vii
- Noun usage: Let us call on God in the voice of his church. — Bp. Fell
- Noun usage: Sicinius. How now, my masters! have you chose this man? / 1st Citizen. He has our voices, sir. — Shakespeare, Coriolanus, II-iii
- Noun usage: Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice / Of holy senates, and elect by voice. — John Dryden
- Noun usage: So shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the Lord your God. — Deuteronomy 8:20
- Noun usage: A potent voice of Parliament. — Alfred Tennyson
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of voice are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of voice, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).