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Another word for enunciation

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Noun

  1. The use of the speech organs to produce sounds

      1. The conversion of a student's credits at one school to credits at another school by comparing the curricula.
      2. A movable joint between inflexible parts of the body of an animal, as the divisions of an appendage in arthropods.
      3. The act of vocal expression; utterance or enunciation:
      1. The ability to speak.
      2. A manner of speaking:
      3. That which is uttered; esp., a word or words uttered, whether written or spoken
      1. The use of the voice, as in speaking or singing; vocalization
      2. (Linguistics) The vowel sounds used in a language
      3. The system of vowels peculiar to a given language, dialect, etc.
      1. (Music) The sound of a chord as determined by the selection of the component notes and the way the notes are distributed to the instruments
      2. The act, practice, or production of one that voices.
      3. (Linguistics) The vibration of the vocal cords during the production of speech or a speech sound.
    See also:

    sounds

    words

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Another word for enunciation

Noun

  1. Clear speech

      1. (Music) A particular manner of playing or singing a passage or piece
      2. A speech sound, especially a consonant.
      3. The conversion of a student's credits at one school to credits at another school by comparing the curricula.
      1. A graphic representation of the way a word is spoken, using phonetic symbols.
      2. Any of the accepted or standard ways of pronouncing a word, etc.
      3. The act or manner of pronouncing syllables, words, and phrases with regard to the production of sounds and the placing of stress, intonation, etc.
      1. (--- Law) A formal act of transferring ownership of property to another:
      2. (Now Rare) A setting free, or rescuing
      3. The act or manner of speaking or singing:
    See also:

    diction

  2. A formal statement

    See also:

    declaration

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Sentence Examples

  • His enunciation of his theory is itself destructive of that theory.

  • The enunciation by Descartes of the conception that the physical universe, whether living or not living, is a mechanism, and that, as such, it is explicable on physical principles.

  • For thirty years he laboured with ever-increasing success, due not to any attractions of manner or to the enunciation of novel or bizarre opinions, but to the soundness of his investigations, the impartiality of his judgments, and the clearness of his method.

  • Though his voice was weak, his enunciation was distinct; the expression of his face cheerful; his manner and conversation.

  • In his famous " Nicholson letter " of December 1847 he made what was probably the earliest enunciation of the doctrine of " popular sovereignty," namely, that the people of the territories should decide for themselves whether or not they should have slavery.

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