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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A word considered only as a sequence of sounds or letters rather than as a unit of meaning.
  2. adj. Capable of being voiced or spoken.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered without regard to meaning, but merely as composed of certain sounds or letters.

Wiktionary

  1. n. linguistics A word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning.
  2. n. music A syllable or sound without specific meaning, used together with or in place of actual words in a song.
  3. adj. linguistics Able to be uttered.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a word that is spoken aloud

Etymologies

  1. From French vocable or Latin vocabulum, from Latin vocō ("I call"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Old French, from Latin vocābulum, name, from vocāre, to call. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Adonis _Adonis_ apropos _apropo_ bowsprit _bowsprit_ brooch _broch_ not _broosh_ compromise _compromize_ jowl _jol_, not like _owl_ molecular _molecular_ ogle _ogle_ trow _tro_ vocable _vocable_ zoology _zoology_, not _zoo_”

    Practical Grammar and Composition

  • “Further, an approach to symbolic description of musical sounds informed by human perception termed vocable synthesis is provided by McLean and Wiggins 2009.”

    July « 2009 « Alex McLean

  • “2007 – Got interested in timbre and the voice, came up with the idea vocable synthesis.”

    December « 2009 « Alex McLean

  • “Categories events haskell livecoding misc music openframeworks papers perl rant supercollider visualisation vocable voronoi wovensound”

    March « 2010 « Alex McLean

  • “The changing nuances, the the fine and shaded colorations of the feminine vowels are married to the consonants which outline the masculine structure of the vocable.”

    Sense & Sensuality

  • “Un groupe du Parti libéral du Québec voulait proposer une «proclamation de la citoyenneté québécoise» au prochain congrès libéral mais a dû renoncer à ce vocable après le dépôt du projet de loi 195 du Parti québécois.”

    Memo to Sanctimonious Liberal Bloggers

  • “It is a simple but I think effective vocable synthesiser that runs in a web browser.”

    November « 2008 « Alex McLean

  • “This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 at 10:29 am and is filed under events, livecoding, music, perl, vocable.”

    Dorkcamp and new demo « Alex McLean

  • “Ideas breed vocables; but seldom, except among rhymesters, does a vocable give birth to a popular idea: and in Arabic “Sibr,” as well as”

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

  • “To a Tahirian, a vocable by itself was a signal - an alarm cry, for example - but not a word.”

    Starfarers

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  1. word
  1. term
  1. name

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  1. word

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  • ruzuzu "A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered without regard to meaning, but merely as composed of certain sounds or letters."

    --Century Dictionary Mar 9, 2011

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