# voiced

Pronunciation: say "VOYST" /vɔɪst/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of voice. — simple past and past participle of voice
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of voice. Use this form for something that already happened.
   - _Residents voiced their objections to the highway at the town meeting._
   - _The complaints voiced during the review were taken seriously._

## Adjective

2. Having a voice of a specified kind.
   - Simple: Having a voice of a particular kind or quality.
   - _The gravel-voiced singer was famous for her raspy ballads._
   - _A honey-voiced host welcomed the guests warmly._
3. Produced with vibration of the vocal cords.
   - Simple: Made with the vocal cords vibrating as you say the sound.
   - _In English, the consonants [b], [d], and [g] are voiced._
   - _Voiced consonants such as [z] involve vocal-cord vibration that voiceless ones lack._
4. Containing voice, as a signal or channel carrying speech.
   - Simple: Holding or carrying the sound of a human voice.
   - _The encoder separates voiced segments from background noise._
   - _Each frame of the call is marked as voiced or silent._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/voiced (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).