Meaning of sound | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
   countable, uncountable
2. 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.
3. The strait that separates Zealand (an island of Denmark) from Scania (part of Sweden); also sometimes called by the Danish name, Øresund.
4. A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.
5. Thoroughly; deeply: sound asleep.
6. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
   countable, uncountable
7. The air bladder of a fish.
8. Synonym of Plymouth Sound, Devon, England.
9. An instrument used to examine or explore body cavities, as for foreign bodies or other abnormalities, or to dilate strictures in them.
10. A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
    countable, uncountable
11. The, English name of Øresund.
12. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
    countable, uncountable
13. Obsolete, the study of the reflection of sounds. — anacamptic, adj.
    Obsolete,
14. Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.
    countable, uncountable
15. likeness or approximate similarity in sound.
16. A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound.
    countable, uncountable
17. Rare. a rumbling sound.
18. Rare. a buzzing or humming sound.
19. a crackling sound.
20. Rare. the science of sounds refracted through various media.
21. the fixing of the position of an object by transmitting a signal and measuring the time required for it to bounce back, typically done by radar or sonar and by bats.

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Examples

“He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him.  Nobody made a sound.”

“The warlike sound / Of trumpets loud and clarions.”

“Through all the Worlds are sounds, the noises of moving, and the echoes of voices and song; but upon the River is no sound ever heard, for there all echoes die.”

“In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.”

“It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.[…]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.”

“He looks like he's got it, maybe. Listen to those kids!/There's no maybe about it. That's it, that's the sound.”

“For let us conſider this Prepoſition as to its meaning, (for it is the ſence, and not ſound, that is and muſt be the Principle or common Notion) […]”

“Stay within the sound of my voice.”

“Puget Sound; Owen Sound; Long Island Sound”

“The Sound of Denmarke, where ships pay toll.”

“Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.”

“The head was chopped off, the belly opened, the liver set aside--sometimes along with the roe, sounds, throats, and other items.”

“Most mild cases respond very nicely to such relatively simple office procedures as dilatations with sounds of increasing calibre, followed by the instillation of an ounce of 5 per cent argyrol in the bladder.”

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