sound
- noun
- /saʊnd/
- I haven't heard that sound in so long.
- hear a sound
- make a sound
- loud sounds
Then the image must be reshaped into a sound, a word.
- Then the image must be reshaped into a sound, a word.
- It's just such an amazing sound that is so cool.
- There's also a bird sound, the boreal owl.
- If we hear that sound, that's a bad sign.
- There's that E diminished sound along with E major.
- Also the way that you can make sounds arrive and depart.
- The hills are alive with the sound of crazy.
- The correct answer to the sound was ripples.
- OK, I don't hear these sounds for sure toxic.
Examples
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That is the sound of pure evil.
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Deep listening is a way of employing sound as a source of meditation.
Academic text (2013) -
It's just such an amazing sound that is so cool.
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Listening means taking all sounds in with equal value.
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Oh, that I can hear the sound of people talking.
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My favorite sound in the world.
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The hills are alive with the Sound of Music.
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Their rubber-soled shoes made hardly a sound on the concrete as they returned to the road.
Academic text (2011) -
The air is alive with the sound of a half-dozen languages and accents.
Academic text (2017) -
I was home sleeping, and I was awakened by the sound of a police radio.
Synonyms
A loud, unpleasant sound that disturbs you
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To keep saying the same complaint again and again until people get annoyed
To enjoy hearing yourself speak while not listening to others
Compounds
- Literature
A short part of a recorded statement on radio or television, often by a politician
- Specialized
A pattern of vibrations that moves through air, water, or solids and carries sound
- Specialized
The point near the speed of sound when a plane feels a sudden push and strong vibration
A large bay of the Pacific Ocean in northwest Washington State with many connected waterways and islands
A stretch of water between Long Island and Connecticut on the US Atlantic coast
A way of thinking or arguing that uses good reasons and evidence to show something is true
- Specialized
An opening in the top of an instrument with strings, like a guitar, that makes its sound louder
- Specialized
An audio system that plays sound very clearly with little distortion
- Specialized
The loudness of the high and low parts of a sound, for example a violin or flute
- Specialized
A set of letters that show speech sounds like the International Phonetic Alphabet
- Specialized
A device that makes pictures showing where sounds come from and how loud they are
- Specialized
A device that makes voices or music sound fuller by copying the original sound
- Specialized
A method of finding where a sound comes from by measuring how long it takes to reach microphones
How Loud
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sound (noun, 'a noise') comes from an old English word sund meaning 'noise' or 'something you hear', so a sound is simply something you can hear.