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What does voiceless mean?

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Adjective
  1. Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.
  2. (figuratively) Without a vote; having no input into a decision.
  3. (phonetics) Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd. Examples: [t], [s], [f].
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Outside the window of my train stands the voiceless France of the banlieue.
He was born disabled and voiceless with a gaze permanently haunted by a look of terror.
If voicing is delayed, the voiceless region at the beginning of the vowel is known as aspiration.
Such defamiliarization with the subject-speaker gives us an amusing and sometimes insightful look into the voiceless.
Many varieties of Chinese, including both Mandarin and Cantonese, do not distinguish voiced and voiceless stops and affricates.
She saw Hilary's dramatic potential and trained her to perform as a voiceless clown.

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