sound

See also: Sound

sound - English

Alternative forms

  • soune, sownd, sowne (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /saʊnd/

Adjective

sound (comparative sounder, superlative soundest)

  1. Healthy.
    • 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.
  2. Complete, solid, or secure.
    • Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.
  3. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
  4. (Britain, Ireland, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
    • How are you? —I'm sound.
    • That's a sound track you're playing.
    • See that man over there? He's sound. You should get to know him.
  5. (of sleep) Quiet and deep.
    • Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, and often deeply.
    • Her sleep was sound.
  6. Heavy; laid on with force.
    • a sound beating
  7. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
    • a sound title to land

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Adverb

sound (comparative more sound, superlative most sound)

  1. Soundly.

Interjection

sound

  1. (Britain, Ireland, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
    • I found my jacket. — Sound.

Noun

sound (countable and uncountable, plural sounds)

  1. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
    • He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him.  Nobody made a sound.
  2. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
  3. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra, &.
  4. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
  5. Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.
    • Stay within the sound of my voice.
  6. (phonetics) A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound.

Synonyms

  • See also sound

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Verb

sound (third-person singular simple present sounds, present participle sounding, simple past and past participle sounded)

  1. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
    • When the horn sounds, take cover.
  2. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
    • He sounded good when we last spoke.
    • That story sounds like a pack of lies!
  3. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
  4. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
  5. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy.
    • In my opinion this claim sounds in damages rather than in an injunction.
  6. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
    • Sound the alarm!
    • He sounds the instrument.
  7. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
    • The "e" in "house" isn't sounded.

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Noun

sound (plural sounds)

  1. (geography) 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.
    • Puget Sound; Owen Sound; Long Island Sound
  2. The air bladder of a fish.
    • Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

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Verb

sound (third-person singular simple present sounds, present participle sounding, simple past and past participle sounded)

  1. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
    • The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
    • to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra

Translations

  • Bulgarian: гмуркам се (gmurkam se)
  • Danish: dykke (da) (ned)
  • Finnish: sukeltaa (fi)
  • Ido: sondar (io)
  • Japanese: 潜る (ja) (moguru)

Noun

sound (plural sounds)

  1. A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.

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sound - Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈsawnd/

Noun

sound m (invariable)

  1. (music) sound (distinctive style and sonority)

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sound - Swedish

Noun

sound n

  1. (music) a sound (distinctive style)
    • Gruppen har ett unikt sound
      • The band has a unique sound

Declension

Declension of sound 
Meaning and Definition of sound
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