Sound meaning
Sound is vibration in air and water that stimulate the nerves inside the ears to create the sensation of hearing.
An example of sound is music.
An example of sound is voices.
noun
The definition of sound is someone or something that is in good condition.
An example of sound is a well made chair.
adjective
The definition of a sound is a wide channel or strait linking two large bodies of water.
An example of sound is the English Channel.
noun
Sound is defined as to have a particular tone or seem a certain way.
An example of sound is someone's voice being deep.
An example of sound is someone's voice seeming scared.
verb
(archaic) The swim bladder of a fish.
noun
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Free from defect, decay, or damage; in good condition.
Is the bridge sound?
adjective
The distance over which something can be heard.
Within sound of my voice.
noun
A distinctive noise.
A hollow sound.
noun
To measure the depth of (water), especially by means of a weighted line; fathom.
verb
(archaic) Rumor; report.
noun
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Meaningless noise.
noun
(music) A distinctive style, as of an orchestra or singer.
noun
To present a particular impression.
That argument sounds reasonable.
verb
To cause to give forth or produce a sound.
Sounded the gong.
verb
To summon, announce, or signal by a sound.
Sound a warning.
verb
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(linguistics) To articulate; pronounce.
Sound a vowel.
verb
To make known; celebrate.
verb
To examine (a body organ or part) by causing to emit sound; auscultate.
verb
Free from disease or injury.
adjective
Thorough; complete.
Gave their rivals a sound thrashing.
adjective
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Deep and unbroken; undisturbed.
A sound sleep.
adjective
Compatible with an accepted point of view; orthodox.
Sound doctrine.
adjective
Thoroughly; deeply.
Sound asleep.
adverb
To try to learn the attitudes or opinions of.
Sounded out her feelings.
verb
To probe (a body cavity) with a sound.
verb
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To measure depth.
verb
To dive swiftly downward. Used of a marine mammal or a fish.
verb
To look into a possibility; investigate.
verb
An instrument used to examine or explore body cavities, as for foreign bodies or other abnormalities, or to dilate strictures in them.
noun
The distance within which a given sound may be heard; earshot.
Within sound of the bells.
noun
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The mental impression produced by the way something is worded; tenor; drift.
The sound of his report.
noun
Meaningless noise; racket.
noun
To make a sound or sounds.
verb
To have a particular tone or quality of sound.
Your voice sounds hoarse.
verb
To seem, from the sound or manner of utterance.
To sound troubled.
verb
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A long inlet or arm of the sea.
noun
Auditory material that is recorded, as for a movie.
noun
To seem to be or appear to be, based on information one has heard.
Their plan sounds crazy.
verb
To express, signal, indicate, or announce.
The clock sounds the hour.
verb
To make widely known; proclaim.
To sound someone's praises.
verb
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To examine (the chest) by auscultation or percussion.
verb
Free from defect, damage, or decay; whole and in good condition.
Sound timber.
adjective
Normal and healthy; not weak, diseased, or impaired.
A sound body and mind.
adjective
Based on truth or valid reasoning; accurate, reliable, judicious, sensible, etc.
Sound advice.
adjective
Agreeing with established views or beliefs; not heterodox.
Sound doctrine.
adjective
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Thorough, solid, substantial, forceful, etc.
A sound defeat.
adjective
Deep and undisturbed.
adjective
Morally strong; honest, honorable, loyal, etc.
adjective
Legally valid.
A sound title to a property.
adjective
Completely; deeply.
Sound asleep.
adverb
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A wide channel or strait linking two large bodies of water or separating an island from the mainland.
noun
The swim bladder of certain fishes.
noun
(med.) To examine with a sound, or probe.
verb
To sound water or a body of water.
verb
To dive suddenly downward through the water.
verb
To try to find out something, as by roundabout questioning.
verb
(med.) A long probe used in examining body cavities.
noun
A distinctive noise.
A hollow sound.
noun
The distance over which something can be heard.
Within sound of my voice.
noun
(linguistics) To articulate; pronounce.
Sound a vowel.
verb
To present a particular impression.
That argument sounds reasonable.
verb
To examine a body organ or part by causing to emit sound; auscultate.
verb
Free from defect, decay, or damage; in good condition.
Is the bridge sound?
adjective
Free from disease or injury.
adjective
Deep and unbroken; undisturbed.
A sound sleep.
adjective
Thoroughly; deeply.
Sound asleep.
adverb
To probe a body cavity with a sound.
verb
An instrument used to examine or explore body cavities, as for foreign bodies or other abnormalities, or to dilate strictures in them.
noun
A type of longitudinal wave that originates as the vibration of a medium (such as a person's vocal cords or a guitar string) and travels through gases, liquids, and elastic solids as variations of pressure and density. The loudness of a sound perceived by the ear depends on the amplitude of the sound wave and is measured in decibels, while its pitch depends on its frequency, measured in hertz.
The sensation produced in the organs of hearing by waves of this type.
A long, wide inlet of the ocean, often parallel to the coast. Long Island Sound, between Long Island and the coast of New England, is an example.
A long body of water, wider than a strait, that connects larger bodies of water.
In good health, both physically and mentally (sound of body and mind); marketable (property); undamaged, form taken by a document, as in “the complaint sounds in negligence.”
adjective
He was safe and sound.
In horse management a sound horse is one with no health problems that might affect its suitability for its intended work.
adjective
(UK, slang) Good.
"How are you?" - "I'm sound."
That's a sound track you're playing.
adjective
Heavy; laid on with force.
A sound beating.
adjective
Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
A sound title to land.
adjective
Soundly.
adverb
(UK, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
"I found my jacket." - "Sound."
interjection
Noise without meaning; empty noise.
noun
(intransitive) To produce a sound.
When the horn sounds, take cover.
verb
(intransitive, copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
He sounded good when we last spoke.
That story sounds like a pack of lies!
verb
(intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
verb
(intransitive, law) Often with "in"; to arise or to be recognizable as arising within a particular area of law.
verb
To cause to produce a sound.
He sounds the instrument.
verb
To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.
verb
Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.
verb
To sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra.
verb
A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.
noun
A mental impression; an implication.
Didn't like the sound of the invitation.
noun
sound off
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of sound
- Middle English sounden from Old French sonder from sonde sounding line probably of Germanic origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English soun from Old French son from Latin sonus swen- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English from Old English sund swimming, sea
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English from Old English gesund
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English sound, sund, isund, Èesund, from Old English sund, Ä¡esund (“sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous"), from Proto-Germanic *gasundaz, *sundaz (“healthy"), from Proto-Indo-European *sunt-, *swent- (“vigorous, active, healthy"). Cognate with Scots sound, soun (“healthy, sound"), Saterland Frisian suund, gesuund (“healthy"), West Frisian sûn (“healthy"), Dutch gezond (“healthy, sound"), Low German sund, gesund (“healthy"), German gesund (“healthy, sound"), Danish sund (“healthy"), Swedish sund (“sound, healthy"), Irish fétaid (“to be able"). Related also to German geschwind (“fast, quick"), Old English swīþ (“strong, mighty, powerful, active, severe, violent"). See swith.
From Wiktionary
- From Middle English sound, sund, from Old English sund (“the power, capacity, or act of swimming; swimming; sea; ocean; water; sound; strait; channel"), from Proto-Germanic *sundÄ… (“swimming; sound"), from Proto-Indo-European *swem- (“swimming; sea"). Cognate with Dutch sond (“sound; strait"), Danish sund (“sound; strait; channel"), Swedish sund (“sound; strait; channel"), Icelandic sund (“sound; strait; channel"). Related to swim.
From Wiktionary
- Middle English sounden, from Old French sonder, from sonde (“sounding line") of Germanic origin, compare Old English sundgyrd (“a sounding rod"), sundline (“a sounding line"), Old English sund (“water", "sea"). More at Etymology 3 above
From Wiktionary
- Noun: from Middle English sownde, alteration of sowne, from Anglo-Norman sun, soun, Old French son, from accusative of Latin sonus.
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- Verb: from Middle English sownden, sounen, from Anglo-Norman suner, Old French soner (modern sonner), from Latin sonare
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- Old English sund, a swimming, akin to modern swim.
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- From the common noun sound (“strait, inlet").
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- The euphonic -d appears in the fifteenth century.
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