Synonyms of the word

quaver

• n. a trembling shake.
• n. a trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing.
• n. (music) an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.
• v. to shake in a trembling manner.
• v. (intransitive) to use the voice in a trembling manner, as in speaking or singing.
• v. (transitive) To utter quaveringly.

note

• n. (heading) A symbol or annotation.
• n. (heading) A written or printed communication or commitment.
• n. (music, heading) A sound.
• n. (uncountable) Observation; notice; heed.
• n. (uncountable) Reputation; distinction.
• n. (obsolete) Notification; information; intelligence.
• n. (obsolete) Mark of disgrace.
• v. (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
• v. (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
• v. (transitive) To denote; to designate.
• v. (transitive) To annotate.
• v. (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
• v. (transitive) To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of…
• n. (uncountable, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary;…
• n. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period…

sing

• v. (intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
• v. (transitive) To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
• v. (transitive) To soothe with singing.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess under interrogation.
• v. To make a small, shrill sound.
• v. To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
• v. (intransitive) To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.
• n. A gathering for the purpose of singing songs.

sound

• adj. Healthy.
• adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
• adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
• adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
• adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
• adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
• adv. Soundly.
• interj. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
• n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
• n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
• n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
• n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
• v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
• v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
• v. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area…
• v. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
• v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
• n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting…
• n. The air bladder of a fish.
• n. A cuttlefish.
• v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
• v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;…
• v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
• v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
• n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
• n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

tone

• n. (music) A specific pitch.
• n. (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
• n. (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
• n. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
• n. General character, mood, or trend.
• n. (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
• n. (dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking…
• n. (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
• n. (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
• n. The shade or quality of a colour.
• n. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
• n. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus.
• n. (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy…
• n. (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
• v. (transitive) to give a particular tone to.
• v. (transitive) to change the colour of.
• v. (transitive) to make (something) firmer.
• v. (intransitive) to harmonize, especially in colour.
• v. (transitive) To utter with an affected tone.
• pron. (now dialectal) The one (of two).

trill

• n. (music) A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it, in musical notation usually…
• n. (phonetics) A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place…
• v. (intransitive) To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations…
• v. (transitive) To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To trickle.

vocalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of vocalize.
• n. A vocal exercise performed by singing one or more vowels without actually forming any words.

vocalize

• v. To express with the voice, to utter.
• v. (of animals) To produce noises or calls from the throat.
• v. (music) To sing without using words.
• v. (linguistics) To turn a consonant into a vowel.
• v. (linguistics, dated) To make a sound voiced rather than voiceless.
• v. (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew).

voice

• n. Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered…
• n. (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; —…
• n. The tone or sound emitted by an object.
• n. The faculty or power of utterance.
• n. Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion.
• n. Opinion or choice expressed; judgment.
• n. (archaic) Command; precept.
• n. One who speaks; a speaker.
• n. (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means…
• n. (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
• n. (Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages…
• v. (transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce.
• v. (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly.
• v. (transitive) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To vote; to elect; to appoint.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To clamor; to cry out.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to…
• v. (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character.

warble

• v. (transitive) To modulate a tone's frequency.
• v. (transitive) To sing like a bird, especially with trills.
• v. (transitive) To cause to quaver or vibrate.
• v. (intransitive) To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.
• n. (military) In naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrow band…
• n. A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma.

waver

• v. (intransitive) To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
• v. (intransitive) To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
• v. (intransitive) To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
• v. (intransitive) To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
• v. (intransitive) To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
• n. An act of wavering, vacillating, etc.
• n. Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc.
• n. Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment).
• n. A tool that accomplishes hair waving.
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.