Voice

Makes phone numbers on websites callable via Google Voice by just clicking on them. If a phone number doesn't turn into a link on any.

late 13c., 'sound made by the human mouth,' from Old French voiz 'voice, speech; word, saying, rumor, report' (Modern French voix), from Latin vocem (nominative vox) 'voice, sound, utterance, cry, call, speech, sentence, language, word' (source also of Italian voce, Spanish voz), related to vocare 'to call,' from PIE root *wekw- 'to speak.'

Replaced Old English stefn 'voice,' from Proto-Germanic *stemno, from PIE *stomen- (see stoma). Meaning 'ability in a singer' is first attested c. 1600. Meaning 'expression of feeling, etc.' (in reference to groups of people, etc., such as Voice of America) is recorded from late 14c. Meaning 'invisible spirit or force that directs or suggests' (especially in the context of insanity, as in hear voices in (one's) head) is from 1911.

voice (v.)

mid-15c., 'to be commonly said,' from voice (n.). From c. 1600 as 'to express, give utterance to' (a feeling, opinion, etc.); from 1867 as 'utter (a letter-sound) with the vocal cords.' Related: Voiced; voicing.

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1. Which of the following voices is typically regarded as the default voice?

2. Which of the following choices contains the correct word order for an active-voice sentence?

3. Which of the following choices contains the correct word order for a passive-voice sentence?

4. Which of the following sentences uses the “middle” voice? Nonstop knight walkthrough.