modality vs voice

modality

noun
  • The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood 

  • The way in which infrastructure and knowledge of how to use it give rise to a meaningful pattern of interaction (a concept in Anthony Giddens's structuration theory). 

  • Any of the senses (such as sight or taste) 

  • The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations. 

  • The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes. 

  • The quality of being limited by a condition. 

  • A particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre. 

  • The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode. 

  • The fact of being modal. 

  • A method of diagnosis or therapy. 

voice

noun
  • A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses. 

  • Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character 

  • The tone or sound emitted by an object 

  • That which is communicated; message; meaning. 

  • Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants. 

  • An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered 

  • A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling. 

  • In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition. 

  • A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel. 

  • One who speaks; a speaker. 

  • The faculty or power of utterance 

verb
  • To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel. 

  • To act as a voice actor to portray a character. 

  • To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of 

  • To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce 

  • To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath. 

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