Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
VOCALIZE
vocalize, vocalise, phonate
(verb) utter speech sounds
voice, sound, vocalize, vocalise
(verb) utter with vibrating vocal chords
articulate, enunciate, vocalize, vocalise
(verb) express or state clearly
vocalize, vocalise, vowelize, vowelise
(verb) pronounce as a vowel; “between two consonants, this liquid is vowelized”
vocalize, vocalise
(verb) sing (each note a scale or in a melody) with the same vowel
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
vocalize (third-person singular simple present vocalizes, present participle vocalizing, simple past and past participle vocalized)
To express with the voice, to utter.
(of animals) To produce noises or calls from the throat.
(music) To sing without using words.
(linguistics) To turn a consonant into a vowel.
(linguistics, dated) To make a sound voiced rather than voiceless.
(linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)
Synonyms
• (of humans): outspeak (rarely used as a synonym of vocalize)
Source: Wiktionary
Vo"cal*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vocalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Vocalizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. vocaliser.]
1. To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to. It is one thing to give an impulse to breath alone, another thing to vocalize that breath. Holder.
2. To practice singing on the vowel sounds.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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