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voice quality (medicine)


voice quality
Voice quality is that component of speech which gives the primary distinction to a given speaker's voice when pitch and loudness are excluded. It involves both phonatory and resonatory characteristics. Some of the descriptions of voice quality are harshness, breathiness and nasality.


pistol (iou)



pistol noun & verb. M16.

A. noun.
A small firearm to be held in one hand; a similar small handgun discharged without an explosive, as one using compressed air. M16.
air pistol, duelling pistol, machine pistol, starting pistol, muff pistol, water-pistol, etc. beat the pistol = jump the gun s.v. GUN noun. put a pistol to one's head, put a pistol to someone's head: see HEAD noun. smoking pistol: see SMOKING ppl adjective. with a pistol at one's head under pressure, while being threatened.
J. Thurber The murders had been done with an automatic pistol, not a revolver.
transf. A person armed with or skilled in the use of a pistol, a pistoleer. L16.
a. A swaggering or peculiar person; a fellow, a chap. Chiefly derog. dial. M19.
b. A remarkable person, esp. a reliable person of strong character, a stalwart. US slang. L20.
Comb.: pistol-grip a handle or grip shaped like the butt of a pistol, spec. on the underside of a gun-stock; pistol-hand (a) the hand in which a pistol is held; (b) = pistol-grip above; pistol-packer colloq. a person armed with a pistol; pistol-packing adjective (colloq.) carrying or armed with a pistol; pistol-shot (a) a shot fired from a pistol; (b) the range of a pistol; (c) a person who shoots (well, badly, etc.) with a pistol; pistol shrimp = snapping shrimp s.v. SNAPPING ppl adjective; pistol-whip verb trans. (orig. US) strike or beat (a person) with the butt of a pistol; pistol-whipping a beating with the butt of a pistol.
b. verb trans. Infl. -ll-, -l-. Shoot (esp. a person) with a pistol. L16.
pistolade noun & verb (a) noun (a wound inflicted by) a pistol shot; (b) verb trans. attack or fire on with pistols: L16-E19.