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Sounds | saw'nd |
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Rhymes | abound, aground, around, and 55 more rhymes in awnd at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Financially secure and safe. |
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Examples | "sound investments"; "a sound economy" |
Similar | dependable, good, safe, secure; healthy; stable |
See also | unbroken; undamaged; fit, healthy; healthy; uninjured; wholesome |
Contrary | unsound |
Meaning | Exercising or showing good judgment. |
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Examples | "a sound approach to the problem"; "sound advice"; "no sound explanation for his decision" |
Synonyms | healthy, intelligent, levelheaded |
Similar to | reasonable, sensible |
Meaning | In good condition. Free from defect or damage or decay. |
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Examples | "a sound timber"; "the wall is sound"; "a sound foundation" |
Similar | solid, strong, substantial |
Contrary | unsound |
Meaning | In excellent physical condition. |
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Examples | "a sound mind in a sound body" |
Synonyms | good |
Similar to | healthy |
Meaning | Reflects weight of sound argument or evidence. |
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Examples | "a sound argument" |
Synonyms | reasoned, well-grounded |
Similar to | valid |
Meaning | Having legal efficacy or force. |
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Examples | "a sound title to the property" |
Synonyms | legal |
Similar to | valid |
Meaning | Free from moral defect. |
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Examples | "a man of sound character" |
Similar to | righteous |
Meaning | (of sleep) deep and complete. |
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Examples | "a sound sleeper" |
Synonyms | heavy, profound, wakeless |
Similar to | deep |
Adverbs | soundly |
Meaning | Thorough. |
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Examples | "a sound thrashing" |
Similar to | complete |
Adverbs | soundly |
Meaning | The particular auditory effect produced by a given cause. |
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Examples | "the sound of rain on the roof"; "the beautiful sound of music" |
Narrower | noisiness, racketiness; ring; unison; voice |
Broader | sound property |
Contrary | silence, quiet |
Verbs | sound; sound; sound; sound |
Meaning | The subjective sensation of hearing something. |
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Examples | "he strained to hear the faint sounds" |
Synonyms | auditory sensation |
Narrower | music, euphony; music; tone, pure tone; noise, dissonance, racket |
Broader | sensation, sense experience, sense impression, sense datum |
Verbs | sound; sound; sound |
Meaning | Mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium. |
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Examples | "falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them" |
Narrower | ultrasound |
Broader | mechanical phenomenon |
Verbs | sound; sound; sound; sound |
Meaning | The sudden occurrence of an audible event. |
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Examples | "the sound awakened them" |
Narrower | beat; beep, bleep; bell, toll; buzz, bombilation, bombination; chink, click, clink; chirp; chirrup, twitter; chorus; click-clack; cry; 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, roll, 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; whack; whir, whirr, whirring, birr; whistle, whistling; whiz; zing; zizz |
Broader | happening, occurrence, natural event |
Verbs | sound; sound; sound; sound |
Meaning | The audible part of a transmitted signal. |
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Synonyms | audio |
Part of | television, telecasting, TV, video |
Broader | auditory communication |
Verbs | sound; sound |
Meaning | (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language. |
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Synonyms | phone, speech sound |
Category | phonetics |
Part of | utterance, vocalization |
Narrower | phoneme; vowel, vowel sound; semivowel, glide; consonant; orinasal phone, orinasal; sonant, voiced sound |
Broader | language unit, linguistic unit |
Verbs | sound; sound |
Meaning | A narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water. |
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Synonyms | strait |
Narrower | Dardanelles, Hellespont; East River; Bering Strait; Bosporus; Cook Strait; Golden Gate; Kattegatt; Korean Strait, Korea Strait; Menai Strait; narrow; North Channel; Skagerrak, Skagerak; Solent, the 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 |
Broader | channel |
Meaning | A large ocean inlet or deep bay. |
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Examples | "the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast" |
Narrower | Long Island Sound; Puget Sound; Queen Charlotte Sound |
Broader | body of water, water |
Verbs | sound |
Meaning | Deeply or completely. |
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Examples | "slept soundly through the storm"; "is sound asleep" |
Synonyms | soundly |
Meaning | Appear in a certain way. |
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Pattern | Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective |
Model | John will sound angry |
Examples | "This sounds interesting" |
Broader | look, appear, seem |
Meaning | Make a certain noise or sound. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective |
Model | The woods sound with many kinds of birds |
Synonyms | go |
Caused by | sound; ring, knell |
Narrower | snarl; whistle, sing; blow; ting; make noise, resound, noise; splat; twang; clang, clangor; clank; clangor, clangour; boom, boom out; drum, beat, thrum; rattle; tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat; resonate, vibrate; tweet, twirp; skirl; gurgle; glug; blow; whish; guggle; ping; pink, ping, knock; trump; squelch; chug; ring, peal; buzz, bombinate, bombilate; chime; rustle; snap, crack; crack; honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot; whistle; resound, echo, ring, reverberate; thud, thump; clop, clump, clunk, plunk; patter, pitter-patter; tap, rap, knock, pink; click, tick; chatter, click; pop; tinkle, tink, clink, chink; splash, splosh, slosh, slush; hum, thrum; bleep; rumble, grumble; boom, din; bang; ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle; lap, swish, swosh, swoosh; drone; whizz, whiz, whirr, whir, birr, purr; roll |
Broader | cause to be perceived |
Nouns | sound; sound; sound; sound |
Meaning | Give off a certain sound or sounds. |
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Pattern | Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective |
Examples | "This record sounds scratchy" |
Narrower | cackel; play; dissonate; pierce; speak |
Nouns | sound; sound; sound; sound |
Meaning | Announce by means of a sound. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "sound the alarm" |
Broader | announce, denote |
Nouns | sound; sound; sound; sound; sound; sound |
Meaning | Utter with vibrating vocal chords. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | voice, vocalize, vocalise |
Narrower | chirk; quaver, waver |
Broader | pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say |
Contrary | devoice |
Nouns | sound; sonant |
Meaning | Cause to sound. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "sound the bell"; "sound a certain note" |
Cause to | sound, go |
Narrower | play; blow; twang; prepare; gong; ting; strum, thrum; ring, knell; pop; clink |
See also | sound off |
Nouns | sound; sound; sound; sound |
Meaning | Measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | fathom |
Broader | quantify, measure |
Nouns | sound; sounding; sounder; sounding |