<B>vocalic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of, having to do with, or like a vowel. <DD><B> 2. </B>having many vowel sounds. <DD><I>noun </I> (Linguistics.) a vowel sound or group of sounds. adv. <B>vocalically.</B> </DL>
<B>vocalise</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a musical composition for a singer, usually without words, designed either as an exercise or for public performance. </DL>
<A NAME="vocalism">
<B>vocalism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>the art of using the voice or vocal organs in speaking. <DD><B> b. </B>the act, art, or techniques of singing. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Phonetics.) <DD><B> a. </B>the vowel system of a dialect, language, or group of languages. <DD><B> b. </B>the variation or range that vowels have in a certain context. <DD><B> c. </B>a vocal sound or articulation. </DL>
<A NAME="vocalist">
<B>vocalist, </B>noun. =singer.</DL>
<A NAME="vocality">
<B>vocality, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being vocal. </DL>
<A NAME="vocalization">
<B>vocalization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of vocalizing. <DD><B> 2. </B>the fact of being vocalized. </DL>
<A NAME="vocalize">
<B>vocalize, </B>verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to form into voice; utter or sing. <BR> <I>Ex. to vocalize old camp songs.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to make vocal. <BR> <I>Ex. The dog vocalized his pain in a series of long howls. (Figurative.) The speaker vocalized the feeling of the entire group.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Phonetics.) <DD><B> a. </B>to change into a vowel; use as a vowel. Some people vocalize the <I>r</I> in <I>four.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to voice. <DD><B> 4. </B>to insert vowels or vowel symbols in (as an Arabic or Hebrew text). <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1a. </B>to use the voice; speak, sing, shout, or hum. <DD><B> b. </B>to sing with one vowel sound for many notes. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Phonetics.) <DD><B> a. </B>to become vocalized. <DD><B> b. </B>to vocalize speech sounds. </DL>
<A NAME="vocalizer">
<B>vocalizer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who vocalizes. </DL>
<A NAME="vocally">
<B>vocally, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>in a vocal manner; with the voice; out loud. <BR> <I>Ex. The child vocally demanded a toy.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>verbally; orally. <DD><B> 3. </B>in song; by means of singing. <BR> <I>Ex. Here is a moving musical work that cannot be carried as a piece of theatre by its music alone, either vocally or orchestrally (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>having to do with vowels or vowel sounds. </DL>
<A NAME="vocation">
<B>vocation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a particular occupation, business, profession, or trade. <BR> <I>Ex. She chose teaching as her vocation. Medicine is my brother's vocation.</I> (SYN) metier. <DD><B> b. </B>the persons who are engaged in the same business or profession. <BR> <I>Ex. a new law affecting the entire vocation.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>an inner call or summons to perform a specific function or fill a certain position, especially of a spiritual nature, such as devoting one's life to the ministry. <DD><B> b. </B>a divine call to a state of union or salvation with God or Christ. </DL>
<A NAME="vocational">
<B>vocational, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with some occupation, business, profession, or trade. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with studies or training for some occupation, business, profession, or trade. <BR> <I>Ex. Vocational agriculture is taught to students who plan to become farmers.</I> adv. <B>vocationally.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="vocationalcounselor">
<B>vocational counselor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who gives vocational guidance. </DL>
<A NAME="vocationaleducation">
<B>vocational education,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any program of education designed to train a person for a particular occupation, business, profession, or trade. </DL>
<A NAME="vocationalguidance">
<B>vocational guidance,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> professional advice given in schools or specialized agencies on the basis of tests and interviews, to help a person choose the occupation for which he is best suited. </DL>
<A NAME="vocationalism">
<B>vocationalism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> belief in, or emphasis on, vocational education, especially in schools and colleges. <BR> <I>Ex. Vocationalism ... demands of education only that it prepare students for a job immediately after graduation (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="vocationalize">
<B>vocationalize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to design or adjust to vocational ends; make vocational. <BR> <I>Ex. Our science faculties have yielded to the pressures of industrial demand for their product and to student demand for good jobs and high salaries, and have vocationalized their instruction (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="vocationalnurse">
<B>vocational nurse,</B> =practical nurse.</DL>
<A NAME="vocationalschool">
<B>vocational school,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an educational institution, usually at the secondary-school level, where training is given in various vocations or trades, such as printing, stenography, or mechanics. </DL>
<A NAME="vocative">
<B>vocative, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>(Grammar.) showing the person or thing spoken to. <DD><B> 2. </B>of, having to do with, or characteristic of calling or addressing. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the vocative case. <DD><B> 2. </B>a word in that case. <I>Domine,</I> "O, Lord" is the vocative of the Latin <I>dominus.</I> (Abbr:) voc. <DD><B> 3. </B>an appeal or call for help. adv. <B>vocatively.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="voces">
<B>voces, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) plural of <B>vox.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="vociferance">
<B>vociferance, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a noisy or clamorous shouting. </DL>
<A NAME="vociferant">
<B>vociferant, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> shouting; crying; vociferating. <DD><I>noun </I> a noisy person; one who vociferates. </DL>
<A NAME="vociferate">
<B>vociferate, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-ated,</B> <B>-ating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to cry out loudly or noisily; shout; clamor. </DL>
<B>vociferator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that vociferates; clamorous or noisy shouter. </DL>
<A NAME="vociferous">
<B>vociferous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>loud and noisy; shouting; clamoring. <BR> <I>Ex. a vociferous person, vociferous cheers. The incensed crowd became more vociferous.</I> (SYN) clamorous, thundering. <DD><B> 2. </B>of the nature of, or characterized or accompanied by, loud speech or heated assertions. <BR> <I>Ex. vociferous hatred.</I> adv. <B>vociferously.</B> noun <B>vociferousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="vocoder">
<B>vocoder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an electronic device that breaks down and transmits a message in garbled elements consisting of buzzes and hisses of different pitch, frequency, and strength to a receiving apparatus that reconstructs the original message. </DL>
<A NAME="vocoid">
<B>vocoid, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Phonetics.) <DD><I>noun </I> any sound having a vowellike character. <DD><I>adj. </I> having a vowellike character. <BR> <I>Ex. a vocoid sound or articulation.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="voder">
<B>VODER</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> voice operation demonstrator. </DL>
<A NAME="vodka">
<B>vodka, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an alcoholic liquor, distilled from potatoes, rye, barley, or corn. </DL>
<A NAME="vodkatini">
<B>vodkatini, </B>noun, pl. <B>-nis.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a martini made with vodka in place of gin. </DL>
<A NAME="vodun">
<B>vodun, </B>noun. =voodooism.</DL>
<A NAME="voe">
<B>voe, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in the Shetland and Orkney Islands) a narrow inlet of the sea. <BR> <I>Ex. Over headland, ness and voe--The Coastwise Lights of England watch the ships of England go! (Rudyard Kipling).</I> </DL>
<B>voetganger, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an immature, wingless locust of South Africa, highly destructive to crops. </DL>
<A NAME="voetsak">
<B>voetsak, </B>interjection.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Afrikaans.) be off; begone. </DL>
<A NAME="vogue">
<B>vogue, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the fashion. <BR> <I>Ex. Hoop skirts were in vogue many years ago.</I> (SYN) mode. <DD><B> 2. </B>popularity or acceptance. <BR> <I>Ex. That song had a great vogue at one time.</I> (SYN) favor, approval. <DD><I>adj. </I> fashionable; voguish. <BR> <I>Ex. a vogue phrase, vogue attitudes.</I> </DL>
<B>vogue word,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a word currently in vogue. <BR> <I>Ex. In recent years "camp" ... has been expropriated from the critic's vocabulary to become a vogue word (Nathan Cohen). "Planning" has now clearly become a vogue word for people of all political persuasions (London Daily Telegraph).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="voguey">
<B>voguey, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) in vogue or popular for the time being. <BR> <I>Ex. Color-pale, tasteful, and a bit voguey ... paintings at the Hugo Gallery (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="voguish">
<B>voguish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> in vogue or popular for the time being; fashionable. <BR> <I>Ex. Current trends suggest ... that even Mister (and indeed Miss) may ultimately be abandoned, for the voguish style of address now is simply by name: John Brown or Jane Brown straight (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> adv. <B>voguishly.</B> noun <B>voguishness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="vogul">
<B>Vogul, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a Finno-Ugric language of western Siberia. <DD><B> 2. </B>any of the people speaking this language, related to the Votyaks. </DL>
