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PRONUNCIATION OF VENTRILOQUIZE

ventriloquize  [vɛnˈtrɪləˌkwaɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VENTRILOQUIZE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ventriloquize is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb ventriloquize in English.

WHAT DOES VENTRILOQUIZE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ventriloquize in the English dictionary

The definition of ventriloquize in the dictionary is to produce in the manner of a ventriloquist.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO VENTRILOQUIZE

PRESENT

Present
I ventriloquize
you ventriloquize
he/she/it ventriloquizes
we ventriloquize
you ventriloquize
they ventriloquize
Present continuous
I am ventriloquizing
you are ventriloquizing
he/she/it is ventriloquizing
we are ventriloquizing
you are ventriloquizing
they are ventriloquizing
Present perfect
I have ventriloquized
you have ventriloquized
he/she/it has ventriloquized
we have ventriloquized
you have ventriloquized
they have ventriloquized
Present perfect continuous
I have been ventriloquizing
you have been ventriloquizing
he/she/it has been ventriloquizing
we have been ventriloquizing
you have been ventriloquizing
they have been ventriloquizing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I ventriloquized
you ventriloquized
he/she/it ventriloquized
we ventriloquized
you ventriloquized
they ventriloquized
Past continuous
I was ventriloquizing
you were ventriloquizing
he/she/it was ventriloquizing
we were ventriloquizing
you were ventriloquizing
they were ventriloquizing
Past perfect
I had ventriloquized
you had ventriloquized
he/she/it had ventriloquized
we had ventriloquized
you had ventriloquized
they had ventriloquized
Past perfect continuous
I had been ventriloquizing
you had been ventriloquizing
he/she/it had been ventriloquizing
we had been ventriloquizing
you had been ventriloquizing
they had been ventriloquizing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will ventriloquize
you will ventriloquize
he/she/it will ventriloquize
we will ventriloquize
you will ventriloquize
they will ventriloquize
Future continuous
I will be ventriloquizing
you will be ventriloquizing
he/she/it will be ventriloquizing
we will be ventriloquizing
you will be ventriloquizing
they will be ventriloquizing
Future perfect
I will have ventriloquized
you will have ventriloquized
he/she/it will have ventriloquized
we will have ventriloquized
you will have ventriloquized
they will have ventriloquized
Future perfect continuous
I will have been ventriloquizing
you will have been ventriloquizing
he/she/it will have been ventriloquizing
we will have been ventriloquizing
you will have been ventriloquizing
they will have been ventriloquizing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would ventriloquize
you would ventriloquize
he/she/it would ventriloquize
we would ventriloquize
you would ventriloquize
they would ventriloquize
Conditional continuous
I would be ventriloquizing
you would be ventriloquizing
he/she/it would be ventriloquizing
we would be ventriloquizing
you would be ventriloquizing
they would be ventriloquizing
Conditional perfect
I would have ventriloquize
you would have ventriloquize
he/she/it would have ventriloquize
we would have ventriloquize
you would have ventriloquize
they would have ventriloquize
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been ventriloquizing
you would have been ventriloquizing
he/she/it would have been ventriloquizing
we would have been ventriloquizing
you would have been ventriloquizing
they would have been ventriloquizing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you ventriloquize
we let´s ventriloquize
you ventriloquize
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to ventriloquize
Past participle
ventriloquized
Present Participle
ventriloquizing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VENTRILOQUIZE


clockwise
ˈklɒkˌwaɪz
colloquise
ˈkɒləˌkwaɪz
colloquize
ˈkɒləˌkwaɪz
contraclockwise
ˈkɒntrəˌklɒkwaɪz
contrariwise
ˈkɒntrərɪˌwaɪz
counterclockwise
ˌkaʊntəˈklɒkˌwaɪz
lengthwise
ˈlɛŋθˌwaɪz
likewise
ˈlaɪkˌwaɪz
otherwise
ˈʌðəˌwaɪz
pairwise
ˈpɛəˌwaɪz
piecewise
ˈpiːsˌwaɪz
soliloquise
səˈlɪləˌkwaɪz
soliloquize
səˈlɪləˌkwaɪz
somniloquise
sɒmˈnɪləˌkwaɪz
somniloquize
sɒmˈnɪləˌkwaɪz
stepwise
ˈstɛpˌwaɪz
streetwise
ˈstriːtˌwaɪz
unwise
ʌnˈwaɪz
ventriloquise
venˈtrɪləˌkwaɪz
wise
waɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VENTRILOQUIZE

ventricose
ventricosity
ventricous
ventricular
ventricular fibrillation
ventricule
ventriculi
ventriculography
ventriculus
ventriloqual
ventriloquial
ventriloquially
ventriloquise
ventriloquism
ventriloquist
ventriloquist´s dummy
ventriloquistic
ventriloquous
ventriloquy
ventripotent

WORDS THAT END LIKE VENTRILOQUIZE

aguize
apologize
Belize
bize
customize
epiloguize
euphuize
full-size
maximize
minimize
monologuize
organize
prize
prologuize
realize
recognize
resize
size
specialize
utilize

Synonyms and antonyms of ventriloquize in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ventriloquize» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VENTRILOQUIZE

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The translations of ventriloquize from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ventriloquize» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

ventriloquize
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ventriloquize
570 millions of speakers

English

ventriloquize
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ventriloquize
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ventriloquize
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ventriloquize
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ventriloquize
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মায়াস্বর করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ventriloquize
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ventriloquize
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ventriloquize
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ventriloquize
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

ventriloquize
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ventriloquize
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ventriloquize
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வேறு இடத்தில் குரல் வருவது போன்று பேசு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वेट्रिलोक्विझ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

karından konuşmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ventriloquize
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ventriloquize
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ventriloquize
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ventriloquize
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ventriloquize
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

maag praat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ventriloquize
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ventriloquize
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ventriloquize

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VENTRILOQUIZE»

The term «ventriloquize» is barely ever used and occupies the 196.992 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VENTRILOQUIZE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ventriloquize» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ventriloquize» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ventriloquize

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VENTRILOQUIZE»

Discover the use of ventriloquize in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ventriloquize and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language ...
Derrida tends to “ventriloquize” by writing his thoughts through other people's writings, or “voices,” and by using the ultimately voice-biased writings of writers such as Husserl and Rousseau he ends up reinscribing audism in his discussions of ...
H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, Heidi M. Rose, 2006
2
Family Talk : Discourse and Identity in Four American ...
The term “ventriloquize,” following Bakhtin in spirit ifnot in terminology, captures the sense in which family members, by voicing their dogs, distance themselves ( figuratively, ofcourse) from their own utterances. Speaking through Intermediaries : ...
Deborah Tannen Professor of Linguistics Georgetown University, Program in Communication Shari Kendall Research Associate, Culture and Technology Georgetown University, Center for Myth and Ritual and American Life Emory University Cynthia Gordon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007
3
Rufus M.
You put one of these disks on your tongue and you soon learned to ventriloquize. Vox Pops, they were called. They cost one cent. Rufus did not buy one the minute Miss Twilliger put them in the store. He studied them through the store window ...
Eleanor Estes, 2001
4
"Miscegenation": Making Race in America
In other words, the reader has to ventriloquize Jefferson's own lust, thereby speaking inter-racial desires himself. In a poem in which a black woman is noted in typical fashion for being sexually “yielding” and good for “sport and dally,” the ...
Elise Lemire, 2011
5
Gender and Ventriloquism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian ...
In an interview with John O'Connell for Time Out magazine, she remarks: 'I've got a slight anxiety that all I can do as a writer is ventriloquize, that I haven't got a voice of my own' (O'Connell, 2006, p. 18). Interestingly, Waters' invocation of the ...
Helen Davies, 2012
6
Promoting Children'S Learning From Birth To Five: Developing ...
and can be heard to ventriloquize the language of others. Appropriation of language occurs alongside imitation of behaviour and both appropriation and imitation help young children cope effectively with their worlds. Observations in Alison's ...
Anning, Angela, Edwards, Anne, 2006
7
The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany
W. C. M. found, on trial, which he made before us, that he could equally easily ventriloquize during expiration. In truth, he did this unconsciously every time he changed the voice ; but he had given his attention to the inhaling effort alone, as to ...
‎1825
8
When Voices Clash: A Study in Literary Pragmatics
61 see also ventriloquize ventriloquize 164,382 verb see also modality, tense modal 76, 125 verba declarandi \ 76 verba dicendi 71, 114, 117, 138, 182.185- 187 verba sentiendi 1 1 7, 1 22, 1 82, 1 85 verbal modes of expression 300 ...
Jacob Mey, 1999
9
Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference ...
Cultural mediators take on this task—which I figuratively refer to here as digestion and regurgitation—and ventriloquize a language that belongs neither to them nor to the women who testify. They ventriloquize the language of the cannibal ...
Cristiana Giordano, 2014
10
Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle
from all but its generic significance in order to argue that women and men can equally inhabit and ventriloquize bi-gendered poetic forms. Her Helfenstein, a woman's impersonation of a man, is the converse of her Poe, whom she casts as a ...
Eliza Richards, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VENTRILOQUIZE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ventriloquize is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Everything You Need to Know About the Amnesty Sex Work …
"When sex workers start to talk back, we disrupt this easy fantasy whereby we can be used to ventriloquize the concerns of non-sex working women." ... «VICE, Jul 15»
2
Structure in Revelation 18
Then the voice ventriloquizes: He do the police in different voices, three in particular: Kings of the land (vv. 9-10), merchants of the land (vv. 11-17a), and then ... «First Things, Jul 15»
3
The Tablet Literary Festival - A rich and fascinating exploration of the …
In his translation of Sweeney Astray, "Heaney was able to ventriloquize long-held concerns regarding the stern and controversial demands of Christianity," said ... «Independent Catholic News, Jun 15»
4
Candice Bergen Describes Twisted Relationship With Ventriloquist …
"A gentle squeeze on the back of my neck was my cue to open and shut my mouth so he could ventriloquize me," she writes. "Charlie and I would chatter ... «ETCanada.com, Apr 15»
5
Can the Arab World Live With the US-Iran Nuclear Deal?
First, we need to ask which of the Arab states Baker is trying to speak for or ventriloquize. It isn't all twenty-two member states of the Arab League. It isn't Syria, ... «The Nation., Apr 15»
6
Candice Bergen Reveals Twisted Details About Relationship With …
"A gentle squeeze on the back of my neck was my cue to open and shut my mouth so he could ventriloquize me. Charlie and I would chatter together silently, ... «Womans Day, Apr 15»
7
Candice Bergen's ventriloquist father left puppet $10K but nothing …
A gentle squeeze on the back of my neck was my cue to open and shut my mouth so he could ventriloquize me. Charlie and I would chatter together silently, ... «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
8
Kids on the Berlin Road
Mr. Hofmann has fun with Haffner's energetic prose, whose omniscient narrator often seems to ventriloquize a jaunty multitude of Berlin voices: “Alexanderplatz! «Wall Street Journal, Mar 15»
9
Review: 'The Tutor,' by Andrea Chapin
It is one thing for Tom Stoppard to ventriloquize the bard in the movie “Shakespeare in Love”; quite another for a debut novelist to put words into the mouth of ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jan 15»
10
Every Which Way
The essay is by definition something that challenges established categories and gambles on experimental forms; beyond all those who seek to ventriloquize ... «Artforum, Oct 14»

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