sound
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(satellite adjective) thorough; "a sound thrashing" |
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(verb) appear in a certain way; "This sounds interesting" |
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Related Words: appear, look, seem |
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(verb) give off a certain sound or sounds: "This record sounds scratchy" |
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Related Words: cackel, pierce, speak |
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(verb) make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" |
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Synonyms: go |
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Related Words: babble, bang, beat, beep, birr, blare, bleep, blow, bombilate, bombinate, boom, boom out, bubble, burble, buzz, cause to be perceived, chatter, chime, chink, chug, clang, clangor, clangour, clank, claxon, click, clink, clop, clump, clunk, crack, crump, crunch, din, drone, drum, echo, glug, grumble, guggle, gurgle, honk, hum, knock, lap, make noise, noise, patter, peal, ping, pink, pitter-patter, plunk, pop, purr, rap, rattle, resonate, resound, reverberate, ring, ripple, roll, rumble, rustle, scrunch, sing, slosh, slush, snap, snarl, splash, splat, splosh, squelch, swish, swosh, tap, thrum, thud, thump, tick, ticktack, ticktock, ting, tink, tinkle, toot, trump, twang, whir, whirr, whish, whistle, whiz, whizz |
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(verb) cause to sound; "sound the bell" |
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Related Words: blow, clink, gong, knell, play, play on, ring, strum, thrum, ting, twang |
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(verb) announce by means of a sound; "sound the alarm" |
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Related Words: announce, denote |
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(satellite adjective) free from moral defect; "a man of sound character" |
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(adjective) financially secure and safe; "sound investments"; "a sound economy" |
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Antonyms: unsound |
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(adjective) in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay; "a sound timber"; "the wall is sound"; "a sound foundation" |
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Antonyms: unsound |
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(noun) the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause; "the sound of rain on the roof" or "the beautiful sound of music" |
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Related Words: noisiness, racketiness, ring, sound property, unison, voice |
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Antonyms: silence |
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(noun) the subjective sensation of hearing something; "he strained to hear the faint sounds" |
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Synonyms: auditory sensation |
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Related Words: dissonance, euphony, music, noise, pure tone, racket, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression, tone |
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(noun) the sudden occurrence of an audible event; "the sound awakened them" |
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Related Words: beat, beep, bell, bleep, buzz, chink, chirp, chirrup, chorus, click, click-clack, clink, clump, clunk, cry, drum, drum roll, drumbeat, footfall, footstep, gargle, gurgle, happening, knock, knocking, murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mutter, muttering, natural event, noise, occurrence, paradiddle, pat, peal, pealing, ping, plunk, pop, popping, purr, quack, quaver, rap, ring, ringing, roll, rolling, rub-a-dub, sigh, skirl, song, step, strum, swish, tap, tapping, throbbing, thrum, thud, thump, thumping, thunk, tick, ticking, ting, tinkle, tintinnabulation, toot, tootle, trample, trampling, twang, twitter, vibrato, voice, whir, whirr, whirring, whistle, whistling, zing |
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(noun) a large ocean inlet or deep bay; "the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast" |
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Related Words: Long Island Sound, Puget Sound, body of water, water |
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(noun) mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium; "falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them" |
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Related Words: mechanical phenomenon |
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(adverb) deeply or completely; "slept soundly through the storm"; "is sound asleep" |
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Synonyms: soundly |
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(verb) measure depths with a sounding line, as of a body of water |
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Synonyms: fathom |
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Related Words: measure, quantify |
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(verb) utter with vibrating vocal chords |
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Synonyms: vocalize, voice |
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Related Words: articulate, chirk, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, quaver, say, waver |
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(satellite adjective) in excellent physical condition; "good teeth"; "I still have one good leg"; "a sound mind in a sound body" |
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Synonyms: good |
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(adjective) (of film) having spoken dialogue; "early talking pictures were known as `talkies'" |
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Synonyms: talking |
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(satellite adjective) having legal efficacy or force; "a sound title to the property" |
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Synonyms: legal |
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(satellite adjective) reflects weight of sound argument or evidence; "a sound argument" |
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Synonyms: reasoned, well-grounded |
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(noun) the audible part of a transmitted signal; "they always raise the audio for commercials" |
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Synonyms: audio |
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Related Words: auditory communication |
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(noun) a relatively narrow body of water linking two larger bodies; "the ship went aground in the channel" |
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Synonyms: channel |
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Related Words: English Channel, Harlem River, body of water, canal, rill, strait, tideway, water, watercourse |
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(satellite adjective) (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep" |
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Synonyms: heavy, profound, wakeless |
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(noun) (linguistics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language |
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Synonyms: phone, speech sound |
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Related Words: consonant, glide, language unit, linguistic unit, orinasal, orinasal phone, phoneme, semivowel, sonant, voiced sound, vowel, vowel sound |
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(satellite adjective) exercising or showing good judgment; "healthy scepticism"; "a healthy fear of rattlesnakes"; "the healthy attitude of French laws"; "healthy relations between labor and management"; "an intelligent solution"; "a sound approach to the problem";"sound advice"; "no reasonable explanation for his decision" |
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Synonyms: healthy, intelligent, levelheaded |
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