audibilize

Verb

audibilize (third-person singular simple present audibilizes, present participle audibilizing, simple past and past participle audibilized)

1. To make (something) audible.
   • Phrasing echoes there, with an almost metallic clang, against the actual electromagnetic “sounder” that audibilizes Morse code in the transmission of telegrams, a device operated at her post from the inner sanctum[…]2021 January 28, Garrett Stewart, Book, Text, Medium: Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 191
   • "Rather than concealing or silencing a disability, disablist music audibilizes disability, asserts disability, even claims disability as a fundamental component of its sonic identity.” The British Paraorchestra, for example,[…]2022 September 2, Licia Carlson, Shared Musical Lives: Philosophy, Disability, and the Power of Sonification, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 30
   1. To call out a new intended American football play; to vocalize a change in the intended play.
      • “Audibilize,” Tom Cook Clark was saying to Madden. “When you see them leaning like that, get ready to audibilize.” “Awright, awright, awright,” Oscar Veech shouted, clapping his hands for noapparentreason. “What are you, Conway?”1986 January 7, Don DeLillo, End Zone, Penguin, →ISBN
      • Quarterbacks are allowed to audibilize, or change the play at the line of scrimmage. A changed play is called an audible. Quarterbacks usually audibilize when they discover that the defense has guessed correctly and is properly aligned[…]2012 June 13, Howie Long, John Czarnecki, Football Rules and Positions In A Day For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN