voicing

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔɪsɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪsɪŋ

From voice + -ing.

voicing

1. present participle and gerund of voice

From voice + -ing.

voicing (countable and uncountable, plural voicings)

1. (music) The final regulation of the pitch and tone of any sound-producing entity, especially of an organ or similar musical instrument.
2. (music) A particular arrangement of notes to form a chord.
3. (phonetics) The articulatory process in which the vocal cords vibrate.
4. (phonetics, phonology) A classification of speech sounds that tend to be associated with vocal cord vibration.
5. (phonology) A phonological process that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one.

   Synonym: sonorization

   Antonyms: devoicing, surdization

6. A sound made by the voice; vocalization.
   • 1900, Valentine Brown, “The Fisherman's Last Drift”, in Poems:

     Shrill voicings of seagulls

   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 250:

     Pete dressed Eddie's high-pitched voicings in the stick-sweet strings of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.

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