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audibilize en · VERB

Etymology

From audible + -ize.

Meanings

1. To make (something) audible.
   • Attention to space along with intersectional approaches to retelling women's stories that challenge normative depictions of African women visibilizes people and audibilizes voices of contest and difference. This approach renders more[…] 2020 December 24, Diana Højlund Madsen, Gendered Institutions and Women’s Political Representation in Africa, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 136:
   • "Rather than concealing or silencing a disability, disablist music audibilizes disability, asserts disability, even claims disability as a fundamental component of its sonic identity.” The British Paraorchestra, for example,[…] 2022 September 2, Licia Carlson, Shared Musical Lives: Philosophy, Disability, and the Power of Sonification, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 30:
   • Phrasing echoes there, with an almost metallic clang, against the actual electromagnetic “sounder” that audibilizes Morse code in the transmission of telegrams, a device operated at her post from the inner sanctum[…] 2021 January 28, Garrett Stewart, Book, Text, Medium: Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 191:
2. To make (something) audible. ▸ To call out a new intended American football play; to vocalize a change in the intended play.
   • Quarterbacks are allowed to audibilize, or change the play at the line of scrimmage. A changed play is called an audible. Quarterbacks usually audibilize when they discover that the defense has guessed correctly and is properly aligned[…] 2012 June 13, Howie Long, John Czarnecki, Football Rules and Positions In A Day For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
   • “Audibilize,” Tom Cook Clark was saying to Madden. “When you see them leaning like that, get ready to audibilize.” “Awright, awright, awright,” Oscar Veech shouted, clapping his hands for noapparentreason. “What are you, Conway?” 1986 January 7, Don DeLillo, End Zone, Penguin, →ISBN:

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Relateds

audialize