High-sounding
(a.) Pompous |
Re-sound
(v. t. & i.) To sound again or anew. |
Sound
(n.) The air bladder of a fish |
Sound
(n.) A cuttlefish. |
Sound
(superl.) Whole |
Sound
(superl.) Healthy |
Sound
(superl.) Firm |
Sound
(superl.) Free from error |
Sound
(superl.) Founded in truth or right |
Sound
(superl.) heavy |
Sound
(superl.) Undisturbed |
Sound
(superl.) Founded in law |
Sound
(adv.) Soundly. |
Sound
(n.) A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an island |
Sounding
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sound |
Sound
(v. t.) To measure the depth of |
Sound
(v. t.) Fig.: To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person) |
Sound
(v. t.) To explore, as the bladder or urethra, with a sound |
Sound
(v. i.) To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device. |
Sound
(n.) Any elongated instrument or probe, usually metallic, by which cavities of the body are sounded or explored, especially the bladder for stone, or the urethra for a stricture. |
Sound
(n.) The peceived object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance affecting the ear |
Sound
(n.) The occasion of sound |
Sound
(n.) Noise without signification |
Sound
(v. i.) To make a noise |
Sound
(v. i.) To be conveyed in sound |
Sound
(v. i.) To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard |
Sound
(v. t.) To causse to make a noise |
Sound
(v. t.) To cause to exit as a sound |
Sound
(v. t.) To order, direct, indicate, or proclain by a sound, or sounds |
Sound
(v. t.) To celebrate or honor by sounds |
Sound
(v. t.) To examine the condition of (anything) by causing the same to emit sounds and noting their character |
Sound
(v. t.) To signify |
Sound-board
(n.) A sounding-board. |
Sounding
(a.) Making or emitting sound |
Sounding
(n.) The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs). |
Sounding
(n.) measurement by sounding |
Sounding
(n.) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom |
Sounding
(n.) The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom. |
Sounding-board
(n.) A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. |
Sounding-board
(n.) A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. |
Sounding-board
(n.) See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise. |
echolocation
echo sounding | determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it |
| sounding | the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line) |
| sound ranging | locating a source of sound (as an enemy gun) by measurements of the time the sound arrives at microphones in known positions |
| sound reproduction | the reproduction of sound |
audio system
sound system | a system of electronic equipment for recording or reproducing sound |
hi-fi
high fidelity sound system | equipment for the reproduction of sound with high fidelity |
lead line
sounding line | (nautical) plumb line for determining depth |
| sound bow | contact (the part of a bell) against which the clapper strikes |
| sound camera | a movie camera that records sounds in synchrony with the visual images |
| sound film | motion-picture film with sound effects and dialogue recorded on it |
| sound hole | a hole in a soundboard (as of a violin) designed to resonate with the tones |
sounding board
soundboard | (music) resonator consisting of a thin board whose vibrations reinforce the sound of the instrument |
| sounding lead | a metal bob at the end of a sounding line |
| sounding rocket | a research rocket used to obtain information about the atmosphere at various altitudes |
sound recording
audio recording
audio | a recording of acoustic signals |
| sound spectrograph | a spectrograph for acoustic spectra |
| sound truck | a truck equipped with a loudspeaker and used for advertising |
judgment
judgement
sound judgment
sound judgement
perspicacity | the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions |
| sound | the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause, the sound of rain on the roof, the beautiful sound of music |
| sound property | an attribute of sound |
echo
reverberation
sound reflection
replication | the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves, she could hear echoes of her own footsteps |
acoustic power
sound pressure level | the physical intensity of sound |
| sounding | a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line |
auditory perception
sound perception | the perception of sound as a meaningful phenomenon |
sound
auditory sensation | the subjective sensation of hearing something, he strained to hear the faint sounds |
| sound effect | an effect that imitates a sound called for in the script of a play |
morphology sound structure
syllable structure
word structure | the admissible arrangement of sounds in words |
| sound law | a law describing sound changes in the history of a language |
audio
sound | the audible part of a transmitted signal, they always raise the audio for commercials |
phonetic alphabet
sound alphabet | an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech |
phone
speech sound
sound | (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language |
vowel
vowel sound | a speech sound made with the vocal tract open |
stop consonant
stop
occlusive
plosive consonant
plosive speech sound
plosive | a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it, his stop consonants are too aspirated |
sonant
voiced sound | a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords |
| sound bite | a very short speech, usually on radio or television |
sound wave
acoustic wave | (acoustics) a wave that transmits sound |
| sound | the sudden occurrence of an audible event, the sound awakened them |
| Long Island Sound | a sound between Long Island and Connecticut |
| Puget Sound | an inlet of the North Pacific in northwestern Washington State |
| Queen Charlotte Sound | an inlet of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia |
| sound | a large ocean inlet or deep bay, the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast |
strait
sound | a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water |
| sounding board | a person whose reactions to something serve as an indication of its acceptability, I would use newspapermen as a sounding board for such policies |
| sound | mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium, falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them |
sound pressure
instantaneous sound pressure | the difference between the instantaneous pressure at a point in a sound field and the average pressure at that point |
sonic barrier
sound barrier | the increase in aerodynamic drag as an airplane approaches the speed of sound |
sound spectrum
acoustic spectrum | the distribution of energy as a function of frequency for a particular sound source |
projection
acoustic projection
sound projection | the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality, our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection, a prime ingredient of public speaking is projection of the voice |
| sound unit | any acoustic unit of measurement |
noise pollution
sound pollution | annoying and potentially harmful environmental noise |