sound
IPA: sˈaʊnd
noun
- A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
- A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
- (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
- Noise without meaning; empty noise.
- Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.
- (phonetics) A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound.
- (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.
- The air bladder of a fish.
- (medicine) A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.
- The strait that separates Zealand (an island of Denmark) from Scania (part of Sweden); also sometimes called by the Danish name, Øresund.
- Synonym of Plymouth Sound, Devon, England.
verb
- (intransitive) To produce a sound.
- (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
- (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
- (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy.
- (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
- (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
- (intransitive) Of a whale, to dive downwards.
- To ascertain, or to try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
- To fathom or test; to ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
- (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
adjective
- Healthy.
- Complete, solid, or secure.
- (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
- (Britain, Ireland, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
- (of sleep) Quiet and deep.
- Heavy; laid on with force.
- Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
adverb
- Soundly.
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Examples of "sound" in Sentences
- Her voice sounds husky somehow.
- He has a gasconading sound of the voice.
- Conrad's voice became the trademark sound.
- They were energized by the beautiful sound of music.
- The music and the sound effects stunned the audience.
- They should not listen to the dulcet sound of the voice.
- The sound of the musical instrument astonished the audience.
- _ I say -- "silver sound" because musicians _sound for silver_.
- The sound of children's voices is heard approaching from offstage.
- The voice is a liquid sounding warble, accompanied by imitations and whistles.
- In the second stanza, "I sound not at the news of wreck," _sound_ is an old form of _swoon_.
- Give the name and the sound of each of the letters in the three following words: _letters, name, sound_.
- Evidently part of her lungs must be _very_ sound still; and they say _no one's_ lungs are _quite sound_.
- All motion pictures might be characterized as _space measured without sound, plus time measured without sound_.
- In. by sound, like the word "Numbers" which Macready proposed, and which is really _not a genuine In. by sound_, is of little service to a poor memory.
- Intimate-and-friendly Photoplay, especially when it is developed from the standpoint of the last part of chapter nine, _space measured without sound plus time measured without sound_.
- Pilgrims of all sorts resort thither from all the surrounding countries, even from Persia and China; and having purified themselves by washing in the pool below, they go to the top of the mountain, near which hangs a bell, which they strike, and consider its sound as a symbol of their having been purified; _as if any other bell, on being struck, would not sound_.