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to audiate

to audiate

9.9
To hear a song or sound in your mind without any real sound
  • verb
  • /ˈɔːdiˌeɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : auditar
  • Provide time for students to independently audiate the rhythm.
  • audiate music
  • ability to audiate
  • audiate the sounds

Examples

  • Teachers might begin by having students audiate only the first few beats and increase the duration as students progress.

    Academic text (2015)
  • You can also have all students sing or play the bass line while they individually audiate the melody, and vice versa.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Many students now must learn to audiate the songs at the same time they are learning to read them.

    Academic text (2011)
  • As the child begins to audiate music produced by the three bars, additional bars can be added.

    Academic text (1991)
  • As students explore, they begin to audiate the sounds that they are playing, and their actions become more intentional.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Through the repetition of patterns, students can learn to audiate the patterns, which leads to Level 2.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Encourage students to audiate the appropriate rhythm syllables as they play.

    Academic text (2015)
  • While many students taught through traditional methods develop excellent rhythm skills, few learn to audiate tonal elements.

    Academic text (1999)
  • As the student continues to audiate and use patterns, the student learns to organize the patterns into larger musical structures.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Many students now must audiate the songs at the same time they are learning to read them.

How Vivid

to audiate
  • Specialized
9.9
to imagine
1.3
to recall
2.4

Surface Forms

audiate infinitive
audiated past
audiated past participle
audiating present participle
audiate third person singular

Morphology

audiate = audio (semi-transparent) = audio + ate

Formally audio + -ate is clear, but the technical sense 'hear music mentally' is specialized and not fully predictable for an average learner.

Etymology

Audiate comes from the Latin word audire meaning 'to hear', and it shares this root with familiar words like audio and audience. So to audiate is to 'hear' music or sounds in your mind without any real sound.