different between localize vs vocalize

English

Alternative forms

• (UK) localise

Etymology

From local +? -ize. Compare French localiser.

Verb

localize (third-person singular simple present localizes, present participle localizing, simple past and past participle localized)

1. (transitive) To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place.
2. (software engineering) To adapt a product for use in a particular country or region, typically by translating text into the language of that country and modifying currencies, date formats, etc.

   We need to localize our software for the Japanese market.

3. To determine where something takes place or is to be found.

Related terms

• local
• locus
• locality
• localization
• localizor
• localizer
• locate
• location
• locator

Translations

Portuguese

Verb

localize

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of localizar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of localizar
3. first-person singular imperative of localizar
4. third-person singular imperative of localizar

English

Alternative forms

• vocalise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

vocal +? -ize

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?vo?.k?.la?z/

Verb

vocalize (third-person singular simple present vocalizes, present participle vocalizing, simple past and past participle vocalized)

1. To express with the voice, to utter.
   • 1876, Walt Whitman, preface to the 1876 edition of Leaves of Grass

     Following the modern spirit, the real poems of the present, ever solidifying and expanding into the future, must vocalize the vastness and splendor and reality with which scientism has invested man and the universe,...

2. (of animals) To produce noises or calls from the throat.

   We could hear the monkeys vocalizing, though we could not see them.

3. (music) To sing without using words.
4. (linguistics) To turn a consonant into a vowel.

   In Hong Kong English, /l/ may be vocalized at the end of a syllable.

5. (linguistics, dated) To make a sound voiced rather than voiceless.
6. (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)

Synonyms

• (of humans): outspeak (rarely used as a synonym of vocalize)

Derived terms

• vocalization

Portuguese

Verb

vocalize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of vocalizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of vocalizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of vocalizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of vocalizar