Ventriloquy
11ventriloquist — 1650s, from VENTRILOQUY (Cf. ventriloquy) + IST (Cf. ist) …
12Gastriloquy — Gas*tril o*quy, n. A voice or utterance which appears to proceed from the stomach; ventriloquy. [1913 Webster] …
13Ventriloquism — Ventriloquist redirects here. For the Batman villain, see Ventriloquist (comics). A ventriloquist entertaining children at the Pueblo, Colorado, Buell Children s Museum. Ventriloquism, or ventriloquy, is an act of stagecraft in which a person (a… …
14ventriloquial — ventriloquially, adv. /ven treuh loh kwee euhl/, adj. of, pertaining to, or using ventriloquism. Also, ventriloqual /ven tril euh kweuhl/. [1830 40; VENTRILOQUY + AL1] * * * …
15ventriloquism — /ven tril euh kwiz euhm/, n. the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy. Also called ventriloquy /ven… …
16ventriloquial — adjective a) of or relating to ventriloquy b) spoken to oneself …
17speech — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Oral communication Nouns 1. speech, talk, faculty of speech; locution, parlance, expression, vernacular, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion, discourse; soliloquy;… …
18voice — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. vocality; speaking or singing voice; inflection, intonation; tone of voice; ventriloquism, ventriloquy; lung power; vocal cords, vocalization (see speech); cry, expression, utterance, vociferation,… …
19ventriloquism — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. ventriloquy, gastriloquism, polyphonism; see speech 2 …
20ventriloquist — [vɛn trɪləkwɪst] noun an entertainer who makes their voice seem to come from a dummy of a person or animal. Derivatives ventriloquial ˌvɛntrɪ ləʊkwɪəl adjective ventriloquism noun ventriloquize or ventriloquise verb ventriloquy …
