voice-n; 6 Senses

Sense Number 1: (The capacity of) speech.

Commentary: VOICE[+speech]

Examples:
Monkeys added their voices to the rainforest symphony.
He lost his voice.
A shrill voice sounded behind us.

Mappings:
PropBank: voice.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2, 6, 9

Sense Number 2: A sound suggestive of (but not actually) a vocal utterance.

Commentary: VOICE[+inanimate]

Examples:
The noisy voice of the waterfall drowned out our speech.
We woke to the voices of the artillery.

Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3

Sense Number 3: Expression in a coherent verbal form.

Commentary: VOICE[+expression][+event]

Examples:
I gave voice to my feelings.
She gave voice to our collective concerns.

Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4

Sense Number 4: A means or agency by which something is communicated.

Commentary: VOICE[+representative]

Examples:
The Times is not the voice of New York.
Conservatism has many voices.
The meeting was attended by voices for all the organizations.

Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5, 8

Sense Number 5: The singing part or the melody carried by the singing part.

Commentary: VOICE[+choral]

Examples:
He wanted to hear trained voices sing it.
He tried to sing the tenor voice.
We need to find the best voice for this artist.

Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 7, 11

Sense Number 6: (linguistics) the grammatical relation of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action the verb denotes.

Commentary: VOICE[+linguistic]

Examples:
Is it active or passive voice?
Assign voice features to the following predicates.

Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 10