Look up: Sound

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   Sound
   Sound is the changes in air pressure detectable by the ear.
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   Sound
   Sound is slang for O.K., wonderful.
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   Sound
   (1) (noun) a relatively long arm of the sea or ocean forming a CHANNEL between an island and a mainland or connecting two larger bodies, as a sea and the ocean, or two parts of the same body; usually wider and more extensive than a STRAIT. (2) (verb) To measure the DEPTH of the water.
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   sound
   [adj] - in good condition 2. [adj] - financially secure and safe 3. [adj] - free from moral defect 4. [adj] - thorough 5. [n] - mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium 6. [n] - a large ocean inlet or deep bay 7. [n] - the sudden occurrence of an audible event 8. [n] - the subjective sensation of hearing something 9. [n] - the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause 10. [v] - announce by means of a sound 11. [v] - cause to sound 12. [v] - make a certain noise or sound 13. [v] - give off a certain sound or sounds 14. [v] - appear in a certain way
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   Sound
   1) Moving pressure variations in air caused by something vibrating between 20 times a second and 20,000 times a second or similar variations in other substances like water.
   2) Loosely, any audio signal regardless of its energy form.
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   Sound
   Any pressure variation (in air, water or other medium) which is detectable by the human ear.
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   Sound
   A longitudinal wave which travels through a medium, usually air. Sound also travels through liquids (e.g. water) and solids (e.g. steel). The volume (loudness) of sound is measured using the decibel (dB) scale
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   Sound
   Energy that is transmitted by pressure waves in air or other materials and is the objective cause of the sensation of hearing. Commonly called noise if it is unwanted. Sound, physical phenomenon that stimulates the sense of hearing. In human beings, hearing takes place whenever vibrations of frequencies between about 15 and 20,000 hertz reach the i...
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   1. audio. 2. (logic) An inference system A is sound with respect to another system B if A can only reach conclusions which are true in B. A type inference system is considered sound with respect to a semantics if the type inferred for an expression is the same as the type inferred for the meaning of that expression under the semantics. The dual to...
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    sound
    audible effects Category: General • term applied to a wine which is free from any spoilage or abnormalities Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • refers to a resolution which will not indicate that nontheorems are true Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • an acoustical vibration which is able to a...
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    Sound
    Sound noun [ Anglo-Saxon sund a swimming, akin to English swim . See Swim .] The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
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    Sound
    Sound noun (Zoology) A cuttlefish. [ Obsolete] Ainsworth.
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    Sound adjective [ Compar. Sounder ; superl. Soundest .] [ Middle English sound , Anglo-Saxon sund ; akin to D. ge zond , G. ge sund , Old High German gi sunt , Dan. & Swedish sund , and perhaps to Latin sanus . Confer Sane .] 1. Whole; unbroken; unharmed; free from flaw, ...
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    Sound
    Sound adverb Soundly. « So sound he slept that naught might him awake.» Spenser.
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    Sound noun [ Anglo-Saxon sund a narrow sea or strait; akin to Icelandic , Swedish , Dan. & German sund , probably so named because it could be swum across. See Swim .] (Geology) A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as, the Sound between the B ...
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    Sound transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sounded ; present participle & verbal noun Sounding .] [ French sonder ; confer Anglo-Saxon sund gyrd a sounding rod, sund line a sounding line (see Sound a narrow passage of water).] 1. To measure the depth of; to fathom; especially, to ascertain ...
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    Sound
    Sound intransitive verb To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device. « I sound as a shipman soundeth in the sea with his plummet to know the depth of sea.» Palsgrave.
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    Sound noun [ French sonde . See Sound to fathom.] (Medicine) 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.
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    Sound
    Sound noun [ Middle English soun , Old French son , sun , French son , from Latin sonus akin to Sanskrit svana sound, svan to sound, and perhaps to English swan . Confer Assonant , Consonant , Person , Sonata , Sonnet , Sonorous , Swan .] 1. The peceived object occasioned by the ...
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    Sound
    Sound intransitive verb [ Middle English sounen , sownen , Old French soner , suner , French sonner , from Latin sonare . See Sound a noise.] 1. To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect. 'And first taught speaking trumpets how to sound .' Dr ...
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    Sound
    Sound transitive verb 1. To causse to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn. « A bagpipe well could he play and soun [ d].» Chaucer. 2. To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument. 3. To order, direct, indicate, or proclain by a sound, or sounds; to give a signal for by ...
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    sound
    The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food. ... Origin: AS. Sund a swimming, akin to E. Swim. See Swim. ... 1. Whole; unbroken; unharmed; free from flaw, defect, or decay; perfect of the kind; as, sound timber; sound fruit; a sound tooth; a sound ship. ... 2. Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; said of bo ...
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    sound
    adjective thorough; `a sound thrashing`
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    sound
    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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