sound
1. the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause (Freq. 36)
- the sound of rain on the roof
- the beautiful sound of music
• Ant:
silence
• Hypernyms:
sound property
• Hyponyms:
noisiness, racketiness, ring, unison, voice
2. the subjective sensation of hearing something (Freq. 16)
- he strained to hear the faint sounds
• Syn:
auditory sensation
• Hypernyms:
sensation, esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense impression, sense datum
• Hyponyms:
music, euphony, tone, pure tone, noise,
dissonance, racket, dub
3. mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium (Freq. 11)
- falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them
• Hypernyms:
mechanical phenomenon
• Hyponyms:
ultrasound
4. the sudden occurrence of an audible event (Freq. 11)
- the sound awakened them
• Hypernyms:
happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
• Hyponyms:
bong, beat, beep, bleep, bell,
toll, buzz, bombilation, bombination, chink, click,
clink, chirp, chirrup, twitter, chorus, click-clack,
clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clopping, clunking, clumping,
cry, ding, drip, dripping, drum, footfall,
footstep, step, gargle, gurgle, jingle, jangle,
knock, knocking, mutter, muttering, murmur, murmuring,
murmuration, mussitation, noise, paradiddle, roll, drum roll,
pat, rap, tap, patter, peal, pealing,
rolling, ping, plunk, pop, popping, purr,
quack, quaver, ring, ringing, tintinnabulation, rub-a-dub,
rataplan, drumbeat, sigh, skirl, song, strum,
susurration, susurrus, swish, tapping, throbbing, thump,
thumping, clump, clunk, thud, thrum, thunk,
tick, ticking, ting, tinkle, toot, tootle,
trample, trampling, twang, vibrato, voice, vroom,
whack, whir, whirr, whirring, birr, whistle,
whistling, whiz, zing, zizz
5. the audible part of a transmitted signal (Freq. 6)
- they always raise the audio for commercials
• Syn:
audio
• Hypernyms:
auditory communication
• Part Holonyms:
television, telecasting, TV, video
6. (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
phone, speech sound
• Derivationally related forms:
phonic (for: phone), phonetic (for: phone), phonate (for: phone)
• Topics:
phonetics
• Hypernyms:
language unit, linguistic unit
• Hyponyms:
phoneme, vowel, vowel sound, semivowel, glide,
consonant, orinasal phone, orinasal, sonant, voiced sound
• Part Holonyms:
utterance, vocalization
7. a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
• Syn:
strait
• Hypernyms:
channel
• Hyponyms:
narrow
• Instance Hyponyms:
Dardanelles, Canakkale Bogazi, Hellespont, East River, Bering Strait,
Bosporus, Cook Strait, Golden Gate, Kattegatt, Korean Strait, Korea Strait,
Menai Strait, North Channel, Skagerrak, Skagerak, Solent, Strait of Georgia,
Strait of Gibraltar, Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Ormuz, Strait of Magellan, Strait of Messina, Strait of Dover,
Strait of Calais, Pas de Calais, Torres Strait
8. a large ocean inlet or deep bay
- the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast
• Hypernyms:
body of water, water
• Instance Hyponyms:
Long Island Sound, Puget Sound, Queen Charlotte Sound
1. appear in a certain way (Freq. 38)
- This sounds interesting
• Hypernyms:
look, appear, seem
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s Adjective/Noun
- Somebody ----s Adjective
- John will sound angry
2. make a certain noise or sound (Freq. 14)
- She went 'Mmmmm'
- The gun went 'bang'
• Syn:
go
• Hypernyms:
cause to be perceived
• Hyponyms:
snarl, whistle, sing, blow, ting,
make noise, resound, noise, splat, twang, clang,
clangor, clank, clangour, boom, boom out, drum,
beat, thrum, rattle, tick, ticktock, ticktack,
resonate, vibrate, crash, tweet, twirp, skirl,
gurgle, glug, whish, guggle, ping, pink,
knock, trump, squelch, chug, ring, peal,
buzz, bombinate, bombilate, chime, rustle, snap,
crack, honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot,
echo, reverberate, thud, thump, clop, clump,
clunk, plunk, patter, pitter-patter, tap, rap,
click, chatter, pop, tinkle, tink, clink,
chink, splash, splosh, slosh, slush, hum,
bleep, rumble, grumble, din, bang, ripple,
babble, burble, bubble, lap, swish, swosh,
swoosh, drone, whizz, whiz, whirr, whir,
birr, purr, roll
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Something ----s Adjective/Noun
- Somebody ----s Adjective
- The woods sound with many kinds of birds
3. give off a certain sound or sounds (Freq. 9)
- This record sounds scratchy
• Hyponyms:
cackel, play, dissonate, pierce, speak
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s Adjective/Noun
- Somebody ----s Adjective
4. announce by means of a sound (Freq. 1)
- sound the alarm
• Hypernyms:
announce, denote
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
5. utter with vibrating vocal chords (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
voice, vocalize, vocalise
• Ant:
devoice (for: voice)
• Derivationally related forms:
vocalisation (for: vocalise), vocaliser (for: vocalise), vocalization (for: vocalize), vocalizer (for: vocalize), sonant, voice (for: voice)
• Hypernyms:
pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
• Hyponyms:
chirk, quaver, waver
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
6. cause to sound
- sound the bell
- sound a certain note
• See Also:
sound off
• Hyponyms:
play, blow, twang, prepare, gong,
gong, strum, thrum, ring, knell,
pop, clink
• Cause:
go
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
7. measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line
• Syn:
fathom
• Derivationally related forms:
sounder, sounding, fathom (for: fathom)
• Hypernyms:
quantify, measure
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
1. financially secure and safe (Freq. 8)
- sound investments
- a sound economy
• Ant:
unsound
• Similar to:
dependable, good, safe, secure, healthy,
solid, stable
• See Also:
fit, healthy, unbroken, undamaged, uninjured, wholesome
• Derivationally related forms:
soundness
2. exercising or showing good judgment (Freq. 3)
- 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 sound explanation for his decision
• Syn:
healthy, intelligent, levelheaded, level-headed
• Similar to:
reasonable, sensible
3. in good condition;
free from defect or damage or decay (Freq. 1)
- a sound timber
- the wall is sound
- a sound foundation
• Ant:
unsound
• Similar to:
solid, strong, substantial
• Derivationally related forms:
soundness
4. in excellent physical condition (Freq. 1)
- good teeth
- I still have one good leg
- a sound mind in a sound body
• Syn:
good
• Similar to:
healthy
• Derivationally related forms:
soundness
5. (of sleep) deep and complete
- a heavy sleep
- fell into a profound sleep
- a sound sleeper
- deep wakeless sleep
• Syn:
heavy, profound, wakeless
• Similar to:
deep
• Derivationally related forms:
profoundness (for: profound)
6. having legal efficacy or force
- a sound title to the property
• Syn:
legal, effectual
• Similar to:
valid
• Derivationally related forms:
legality (for: legal)
7. logically valid
- a sound argument
• Syn:
reasoned, well-grounded
• Similar to:
valid
• Derivationally related forms:
soundness
8. free from moral defect
- a man of sound character
• Similar to:
righteous
• Derivationally related forms:
soundness
9. thorough
- a sound thrashing
• Similar to:
complete
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