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Definition of Vocal

Vocal

  1. Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.
  2. Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer.
  3. Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, /poken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds.
  4. Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See Voice, and Vowel, also Guide to Pronunciation, // 199-202.
  5. Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel.
  6. A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal.
  7. A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.

Vocal Quotations

Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.
Adele

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
Paul McCartney

The Beatles were basically a vocal band.
Keith Richards

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
Robert Plant

I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.
Justin Bieber
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Vocal Translations

vocal in German is stimmliche, stimmlich, klingend
vocal in Spanish is vocal

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