"vocal cords" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} vocal cords pl (plural only)
  1. (chiefly in the plural) Two folds of tissue located in the larynx that vibrate when air passes over them, producing the sound waves associated with talking and singing. Wikipedia link: vocal cords Tags: in-plural, plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Anatomy Synonyms: vocal chords [nonstandard] Translations (folds of tissue): اَوْتَار صَوْتِيَّة (awtār ṣawtiyya) [feminine, plural] (Arabic), أَحْبَال صَوْتِيَّة (ʔaḥbāl ṣawtiyya) [feminine, plural] (Arabic), احبال صوتية (aḥbāl ṣawṭeya) [Egyptian-Arabic, feminine, plural] (Arabic), 聲帶 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 声带 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 聲帶 (Chinese Cantonese), 声带 (seng¹ daai³) (Chinese Cantonese), 聲帶 (Chinese Mandarin), 声带 (shēngdài) (Chinese Mandarin), hlasivky [feminine, plural] (Czech), stembanden [masculine, plural] (Dutch), voĉkordoj [plural] (Esperanto), äänihuulet [plural] (Finnish), cordes vocales [feminine, plural] (French), cordas vocais [feminine, plural] (Galician), Stimmbänder [neuter, plural] (German), φωνητικές χορδές (fonitikés chordés) [feminine, plural] (Greek), nipiliuut (Greenlandic), vocala kordi (Ido), téada an ghutha [feminine, plural] (Irish), corde vocali [feminine, plural] (Italian), 声帯 (seitai) (alt: せいたい) (Japanese), 성대 (seongdae) (alt: 聲帶) (Korean), balss saites (Latvian), pita suara (Malay), 喉弦 (nūdījiru) (alt: ぬーでぃーじる) (Okinawan), struny głosowe [feminine, plural] (Polish), cordas vocais [feminine, plural] (Portuguese), coarde vocale [feminine, plural] (Romanian), голосовы́е свя́зки (golosovýje svjázki) [feminine, plural] (Russian), cuerdas vocales [feminine] (Spanish), stämband [neuter] (Swedish), tinigang-bagting (Tagalog), babagtingang tinig (Tagalog), голосові́ зв'я́зки (holosoví zvʺjázky) [feminine, plural] (Ukrainian)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.