Voice-over

Definition

voice /vↄÇs/ n ၁။ [C,U] အသံ။ I can hear voices through the wall. ❍ Keep your voice down (ie Don't speak loudly). ❍ recognize sb's voice ❍ speak in a loud/rough/husky/gentle voice ❍ lower one's voice (ie speak more quietly) ❍ He has a good singing voice. ❍ When did his voice break (ie become deep like a man's)? ❍ Her voice shook/trembled with emotion. ❍ ‘There you are,’said a voice behind me. ❍ Don't take that tone of voice with me! ❍ He was in good voice (ie singing well) at the concert tonight. ၂။ [sing] (က) ~ (in sth) အသံ။ The workers want a voice in the decision-making process. (ခ) [sing] သေဘာသြား။ သေဘာထား။ ေစ့ေဆာ္မႈ။ လံႈ႕ေဆာ္ မႈ။ listen to the voice of reason/experience/dissent ❍ a newspaper that represents the voice of the people. ၃။ [sing] ( grammar ) (ကတၱားေဟာ၊ ကံေဟာ) ႀကိယာပံုစံ။ Active voice ❍ Passive voice. ၄။ [U] ( phonetics ) /b, d,g, dʒ,v,ð, z, ʒ, m, n, ŋ, w, r, l, j/ ေဃာသ (အကၡရာ)။ သံျပင္း။ သံထင္။ v ၁။ ထုတ္ေဖာ္သည္။ ဖြင့္ဟသည္။ A spokesman voiced the workers' dissatisfaction. ❍ Some people are nervous about voicing their opinions in public. ၂။ ( phonetics ) ေဃာသသံျဖင့္ ရြတ္သည္။ voiced consonants. ❏ give voice to sth [ IDM ] ဖြင့္ဟသည္။ ရင္ဖြင့္သည္။ Many of the workers at the meeting gave voice to their fears about job security and the future of the company. ❏ make one's voice heard [ IDM ] ဖြင့္ဟသည္။ ရင္ဖြင့္သည္။ ထုတ္ေျပာသည္။ This programme gives ordinary viewers a chance to make their voice(s) heard. ❏ with one voice [ IDM ] တစ္သံတည္း။ The various opposition parties speak with one voice on this issue. ❏ voice-box n = LARYNX ❏ -voiced (forming compound adjs )… အသံ (ရိွေသာ)။ loud-voiced ❍ gruff-voiced. ❏ voiceless adj ( phonetics ) အေဃာသသံ။ သံညင္း။ သံႏံု႔။ ❏ voice-over n (႐ုပ္ရွင္၊ ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကားတို႔တြင္) ေနာက္ခံ စကားေျပာ။ She earns a lot of money doing voice-overs for TV commercials.

Examples

1. A female voice answered the phone.
2. We could hear voices in the next apartment.
3. He tried to keep the irritation out of his voice.
4. A man with a deep/soft/loud voice
5. [in a ... voice] : The woman at the desk greeted him in a bored voice.
6. [tone of voice] : I knew from his tone of voice that he was extremely annoyed.
7. [in someone’s voice] : Phillips called back later
8. and this time there was real irritation in his voice.
9. [lose your voice] : I have a cold – I think I’m losing my voice.
10. My father had a fine bass voice.
11. [be in good/fine voice] : You’re in good voice tonight!
12. An arrangement for piano and four voices
13. The apartheid system left the majority of the population without a political voice.
14. [have a voice (in something)] : Parents should have a voice in any changes to the school curriculum.
15. [give voice to something] : Her article gave voice to the anger felt by many local people.
16. [voice of] : The voice of ordinary party members was rarely listened to.
17. [make your voice heard] : Anti-capitalist groups used street protests as a way of making their voices heard.
18. The paper sees itself as the authentic voice of Middle England.
19. [voice of reason/authority/experience etc] : The senator has long been a voice of reason on this issue.