VOICING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does voicing mean? 

• VOICING (noun)
  The noun VOICING has 1 sense:

1. the act of adjusting an organ pipe (or wind instrument) so that it conforms to the standards of tone and pitch and color

  Familiarity information: VOICING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOICING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of adjusting an organ pipe (or wind instrument) so that it conforms to the standards of tone and pitch and color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("voicing" is a kind of...):

adjustment; readjustment; registration (the act of adjusting something to match a standard)

 Context examples 

He was voicing an utter woe, his cry bursting upward in great heart-breaking rushes, dying down into quavering misery, and bursting upward again with a rush upon rush of grief.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He, too, growled, savagely, terribly, voicing the fear that is to life germane and that lies twisted about life's deepest roots.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But Maud and I had a way of voicing each other’s thoughts, and she said, as we prepared to hoist the mainsail: To think, Humphrey, you did it all with your own hands?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)