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English adjective: sound | |||
| 1. | sound financially secure and safe | ||
| Samples | Sound investments. A sound economy. | ||
| Similar | dependable, good, healthy, safe, secure, solid, stable | ||
| See also | fit, healthy, unbroken, undamaged, uninjured, wholesome | ||
| Antonyms | unsound | ||
| 2. | sound exercising or showing good judgment | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | healthy, intelligent, level-headed, levelheaded | ||
| Similar | reasonable, sensible | ||
| Antonyms | unreasonable | ||
| 3. | sound in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay | ||
| Samples | A sound timber. The wall is sound. A sound foundation. | ||
| Similar | solid, strong, substantial | ||
| Antonyms | unsound | ||
| 4. | sound in excellent physical condition | ||
| Samples | Good teeth. I still have one good leg. A sound mind in a sound body. | ||
| Synonyms | good | ||
| Similar | healthy | ||
| Antonyms | unhealthy | ||
| 5. | sound logically valid | ||
| Samples | A sound argument. | ||
| Synonyms | reasoned, well-grounded | ||
| Similar | valid | ||
| Antonyms | invalid | ||
| 6. | sound having legal efficacy or force | ||
| Samples | A sound title to the property. | ||
| Synonyms | effectual, legal | ||
| Similar | valid | ||
| Antonyms | invalid | ||
| 7. | sound free from moral defect | ||
| Samples | A man of sound character. | ||
| Similar | righteous | ||
| Antonyms | unrighteous | ||
| 8. | sound (of sleep) deep and complete | ||
| Samples | A heavy sleep. Fell into a profound sleep. A sound sleeper. Deep wakeless sleep. | ||
| Synonyms | heavy, profound, wakeless | ||
| Similar | deep | ||
| Antonyms | shallow | ||
| 9. | sound thorough | ||
| Samples | A sound thrashing. | ||
| Similar | complete | ||
| Antonyms | incomplete, uncomplete | ||
English noun: sound | |||
| 1. | sound (attribute) the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause | ||
| Samples | The sound of rain on the roof. The beautiful sound of music. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | sound property | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | noisiness, racketiness, ring, unison, voice | ||
| Antonyms | silence, quiet | ||
| 2. | sound (cognition) the subjective sensation of hearing something | ||
| Samples | He strained to hear the faint sounds. | ||
| Synonyms | auditory sensation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | dissonance, dub, euphony, music, music, noise, pure tone, racket, tone | ||
| 3. | sound (phenomenon) mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium | ||
| Samples | Falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | mechanical phenomenon | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | ultrasound | ||
| 4. | sound (event) the sudden occurrence of an audible event | ||
| Samples | The sound awakened them. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | beat, beep, bell, birr, bleep, bombilation, bombination, bong, buzz, chink, chirp, chirrup, chorus, click, click-clack, clink, clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clopping, clump, clumping, clunk, clunking, cry, ding, drip, dripping, drum, drum roll, drumbeat, footfall, footstep, gargle, gurgle, jangle, jingle, knock, knocking, murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, mutter, muttering, noise, paradiddle, pat, patter, peal, pealing, ping, plunk, pop, popping, purr, quack, quaver, rap, rataplan, ring, ringing, roll, roll, rolling, rub-a-dub, sigh, skirl, song, step, strum, susurration, susurrus, swish, tap, tapping, throbbing, thrum, thud, thump, thumping, thunk, tick, ticking, ting, tinkle, tintinnabulation, toll, toot, tootle, trample, trampling, twang, twitter, vibrato, voice, vroom, whack, whir, whirr, whirring, whistle, whistling, whiz, zing, zizz | ||
| 5. | sound (communication) the audible part of a transmitted signal | ||
| Samples | They always raise the audio for commercials. | ||
| Synonyms | audio | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | auditory communication | ||
| Part meronym | telecasting, television, TV, video | ||
| 6. | sound (communication) (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language | ||
| Synonyms | phone, speech sound | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | language unit, linguistic unit | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | consonant, glide, orinasal, orinasal phone, phoneme, semivowel, sonant, voiced sound, vowel, vowel sound | ||
| Part meronym | utterance, vocalization | ||
| Domain category | phonetics | ||
| 7. | sound (object) a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water | ||
| Synonyms | strait | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | channel | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | narrow | ||
| Instance hyponym | Bering Strait, Bosporus, Canakkale Bogazi, Cook Strait, Dardanelles, East River, Golden Gate, Hellespont, Kattegatt, Korea Strait, Korean Strait, Menai Strait, North Channel, Pas de Calais, Skagerak, Skagerrak, Solent, Strait of Calais, Strait of Dover, Strait of Georgia, Strait of Gibraltar, Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Magellan, Strait of Messina, Strait of Ormuz, Torres Strait | ||
| 8. | sound (object) a large ocean inlet or deep bay | ||
| Samples | The main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | body of water, water | ||
| Instance hyponym | Long Island Sound, Puget Sound, Queen Charlotte Sound | ||
English verb: sound | |||
| 1. | sound (perception) appear in a certain way | ||
| Samples | This sounds interesting. | ||
| Examples | John will sound angry | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s Adjective/Noun. Somebody ----s Adjective | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | appear, look, seem | ||
| 2. | sound (perception) make a certain noise or sound | ||
| Samples | She went `Mmmmm'. The gun went `bang'. | ||
| Examples | The woods sound with many kinds of birds | ||
| Synonyms | go | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s. Something ----s Adjective/Noun. Somebody ----s Adjective | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cause to be perceived | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | babble, bang, beat, beat, beep, birr, blare, bleep, blow, blow, bombilate, bombinate, boom, boom, boom out, bubble, burble, buzz, chatter, chime, chink, chug, clang, clangor, clangor, clangour, clank, claxon, click, click, clink, clop, clump, clunk, crack, crack, crash, din, drone, drum, echo, glug, grumble, guggle, guggle, gurgle, gurgle, honk, hum, knock, knock, lap, make noise, noise, patter, peal, ping, ping, pink, pink, pitter-patter, plunk, pop, purr, rap, rattle, resonate, resound, resound, reverberate, ring, ring, ripple, roll, rumble, rustle, sing, skirl, slosh, slush, snap, snarl, splash, splat, splosh, squelch, swish, swoosh, swosh, tap, thrum, thrum, thud, thump, tick, tick, ticktack, ticktock, ting, tink, tinkle, toot, trump, twang, tweet, twirp, vibrate, whir, whirr, whish, whistle, whistle, whiz, whizz | ||
| 3. | sound (perception) give off a certain sound or sounds | ||
| Samples | This record sounds scratchy. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s Adjective/Noun. Somebody ----s Adjective | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cackel, dissonate, pierce, play, speak | ||
| 4. | sound (perception) announce by means of a sound | ||
| Samples | Sound the alarm. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | announce, denote | ||
| 5. | sound (communication) utter with vibrating vocal chords | ||
| Synonyms | vocalise, vocalize, voice | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | chirk, quaver, waver | ||
| Antonyms | devoice | ||
| 6. | sound (perception) cause to sound | ||
| Samples | Sound the bell. Sound a certain note. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | blow, clink, gong, knell, play, pop, prepare, ring, strum, thrum, ting, twang | ||
| Cause | go, sound | ||
| 7. | sound (change) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line | ||
| Synonyms | fathom | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | measure, quantify | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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