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Defenition of the word sound

    • Defenition of the word sound

      • Auditory sensation produced by the oscillations, stress, pressure, particle displacement, and particle velocity in a medium with internal forces; pressure variation that the human ear can detect. (Source: KOREN)
      • To produce a sound.
      • the audible part of a transmitted signal; "they always raise the audio for commercials"
      • a relatively narrow body of water linking two larger bodies; "the ship went aground in the channel"
      • measure depths with a sounding line, as of a body of water
      • in excellent physical condition; "good teeth"; "I still have one good leg"; "a sound mind in a sound body"
      • 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"
      • (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep"
      • having legal efficacy or force; "a sound title to the property"
      • (linguistics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
      • reflects weight of sound argument or evidence; "a sound argument"
      • thorough; "a sound thrashing"
      • free from moral defect; "a man of sound character"
      • financially secure and safe; "sound investments"; "a sound economy"
      • in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay; "a sound timber"; "the wall is sound"; "a sound foundation"
      • the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause; "the sound of rain on the roof" or "the beautiful sound of music"
      • the sudden occurrence of an audible event; "the sound awakened them"
      • a large ocean inlet or deep bay; "the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast"
      • mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium; "falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them"
      • appear in a certain way; "This sounds interesting"
      • give off a certain sound or sounds: "This record sounds scratchy"
      • cause to sound; "sound the bell"
      • announce by means of a sound; "sound the alarm"
      • the subjective sensation of hearing something; "he strained to hear the faint sounds"
      • make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'"
      • deeply or completely; "slept soundly through the storm"; "is sound asleep"
      • (of film) having spoken dialogue; "early talking pictures were known as `talkies'"
      • utter with vibrating vocal chords
      • the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause; "the sound of rain on the roof"; "the beautiful sound of music"
      • (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
      • a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
      • measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line
      • give off a certain sound or sounds; "This record sounds scratchy"
      • make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm''"; "The gun went `bang''"
      • cause to sound; "sound the bell"; "sound a certain note"
      • 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 advi
      • the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause
      • the subjective sensation of hearing something
      • the audible part of a transmitted signal
      • the sudden occurrence of an audible event
      • a large ocean inlet or deep bay
      • mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium
      • appear in a certain way
      • give off a certain sound or sounds
      • make a certain noise or sound
      • cause to sound
      • announce by means of a sound
      • thorough
      • (of sleep) deep and complete
      • in excellent physical condition
      • exercising or showing good judgment
      • free from moral defect
      • financially secure and safe
      • in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay
      • having legal efficacy or force
      • logically valid

    Synonyms for the word sound

      • activate
      • announce
      • appear
      • audio
      • auditory sensation
      • call
      • channel
      • clatter
      • crash
      • declare
      • echo
      • express
      • fathom
      • firm
      • fit
      • fjord
      • go
      • good
      • hard
      • healthy
      • heavy
      • hum
      • inlet
      • intelligent
      • jingle
      • legal
      • levelheaded
      • look
      • measure
      • noise
      • normal
      • perfect
      • phone
      • positive
      • profound
      • reasoned
      • reliable
      • resonance
      • reverberation
      • rigorous
      • ring out
      • seem
      • sensible
      • severe
      • signal
      • soundly
      • speech sound
      • strait
      • sturdy
      • swish
      • talking
      • test
      • thorough
      • thoroughgoing
      • thud
      • unassailable
      • unblemished
      • vocalize
      • voice
      • wakeless
      • watertight
      • well-grounded
      • whole

    Similar words in the sound

      • complete
      • deep
      • dependable
      • fit
      • good
      • healthy
      • reasonable
      • righteous
      • safe
      • secure
      • sensible
      • solid
      • sound
      • sound off
      • sound's
      • sounded
      • sounder
      • soundest
      • sounding
      • soundings
      • soundless
      • soundlessly
      • soundly
      • soundness
      • soundness's
      • soundproof
      • soundproofed
      • soundproofing
      • soundproofs
      • sounds
      • soundtracks
      • stable
      • strike up
      • strong
      • substantial
      • unbroken
      • undamaged
      • uninjured
      • valid
      • wholesome

    Meronymys for the word sound

      • telecasting
      • television
      • TV
      • utterance
      • video
      • vocalization

    Hyponyms for the word sound

      • babble
      • bang
      • beat
      • beep
      • bell
      • Bering Strait
      • birr
      • blare
      • bleep
      • blow
      • bombilate
      • bombilation
      • bombinate
      • bombination
      • bong
      • boom
      • boom out
      • Bosporus
      • bubble
      • burble
      • buzz
      • cackel
      • chatter
      • chime
      • chink
      • chirk
      • chirp
      • chirrup
      • chorus
      • chug
      • clang
      • clangor
      • clangour
      • clank
      • claxon
      • click
      • click-clack
      • clink
      • clip-clop
      • clippety-clop
      • clop
      • clopping
      • clump
      • clumping
      • clunk
      • clunking
      • consonant
      • Cook Strait
      • crack
      • crash
      • cry
      • Dardanelles
      • din
      • ding
      • dissonance
      • dissonate
      • drip
      • dripping
      • drone
      • drum
      • drum roll
      • drumbeat
      • dub
      • East River
      • echo
      • euphony
      • footfall
      • footstep
      • gargle
      • glide
      • glug
      • Golden Gate
      • gong
      • grumble
      • guggle
      • gurgle
      • Hellespont
      • honk
      • hum
      • jangle
      • jingle
      • Kattegatt
      • knell
      • knock
      • knocking
      • Korea Strait
      • Korean Strait
      • lap
      • Long Island Sound
      • make noise
      • Menai Strait
      • murmur
      • murmuration
      • murmuring
      • music
      • mussitation
      • mutter
      • muttering
      • narrow
      • noise
      • noisiness
      • North Channel
      • orinasal
      • orinasal phone
      • paradiddle
      • Pas de Calais
      • pat
      • patter
      • peal
      • pealing
      • phoneme
      • pierce
      • ping
      • pink
      • pitter-patter
      • play
      • plunk
      • pop
      • popping
      • prepare
      • Puget Sound
      • pure tone
      • purr
      • quack
      • quaver
      • Queen Charlotte Sound
      • racket
      • racketiness
      • rap
      • rataplan
      • rattle
      • resonate
      • resound
      • reverberate
      • ring
      • ringing
      • ripple
      • roll
      • rolling
      • rub-a-dub
      • rumble
      • rustle
      • semivowel
      • sigh
      • sing
      • Skagerak
      • Skagerrak
      • skirl
      • slosh
      • slush
      • snap
      • snarl
      • Solent
      • sonant
      • song
      • speak
      • splash
      • splat
      • splosh
      • squelch
      • step
      • Strait of Calais
      • Strait of Dover
      • Strait of Georgia
      • Strait of Gibraltar
      • Strait of Hormuz
      • Strait of Magellan
      • Strait of Messina
      • Strait of Ormuz
      • strum
      • susurration
      • susurrus
      • swish
      • swoosh
      • swosh
      • tap
      • tapping
      • the Solent
      • throbbing
      • thrum
      • thud
      • thump
      • thumping
      • thunk
      • tick
      • ticking
      • ticktack
      • ticktock
      • ting
      • tink
      • tinkle
      • tintinnabulation
      • toll
      • tone
      • toot
      • tootle
      • Torres Strait
      • trample
      • trampling
      • trump
      • twang
      • tweet
      • twirp
      • twitter
      • ultrasound
      • unison
      • vibrate
      • vibrato
      • voice
      • voiced sound
      • vowel
      • vowel sound
      • vroom
      • waver
      • whack
      • whir
      • whirr
      • whirring
      • whish
      • whistle
      • whistling
      • whiz
      • whizz
      • zing
      • zizz

    Hypernyms for the word sound

      • aesthesis
      • announce
      • appear
      • articulate
      • auditory communication
      • body of water
      • cause to be perceived
      • channel
      • denote
      • enounce
      • enunciate
      • esthesis
      • happening
      • language unit
      • linguistic unit
      • look
      • measure
      • mechanical phenomenon
      • natural event
      • occurrence
      • occurrent
      • pronounce
      • quantify
      • say
      • seem
      • sensation
      • sense datum
      • sense experience
      • sense impression
      • sound out
      • sound property
      • water

    Antonyms for the word sound

      • devoice
      • quiet
      • silence
      • silent
      • unsound

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