vowelize

English

Etymology

vowel +‎ -ize

Verb

vowelize (third-person singular simple present vowelizes, present participle vowelizing, simple past and past participle vowelized)

  1. (transitive) To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.
  2. (transitive) To insert a vowel or vowels into.
    • 2014, Imed Zitouni, Natural Language Processing of Semitic Languages (page 419)
      One approach is to have experts in Arabic manually vowelize a small training set.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for vowelize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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