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Sound
n.
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Any elongated instrument or probe, usually metallic, by which cavities of the body are sounded or explored, especially the bladder for stone, or the urethra for a stricture.
Sound
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The peceived object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance affecting the ear; a sensation or perception of the mind received through the ear, and produced by the impulse or vibration of the air or other medium with which the ear is in contact; the effect of an impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse or vibration of the air caused by a collision of bodies, or by other means; noise; report; as, the sound of a drum; the sound of the human voice; a horrid sound; a charming sound; a sharp, high, or shrill sound.
Sound
n.
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The occasion of sound; the impulse or vibration which would occasion sound to a percipient if present with unimpaired; hence, the theory of vibrations in elastic media such cause sound; as, a treatise on sound.
Sound
n.
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Noise without signification; empty noise; noise and nothing else.
Sound
v. i.
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To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect.
Sound
v. i.
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To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
Sound
v. i.
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To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as, this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an invention.
Sound
v. t.
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To causse to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn.
Sound
v. t.
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To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument.
Sound
v. t.
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To order, direct, indicate, or proclain by a sound, or sounds; to give a signal for by a certain sound; as, to sound a retreat; to sound a parley.
Sound
v. t.
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To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to be reported; to publish or proclaim; as, to sound the praises of fame of a great man or a great exploit.
Sound
v. t.
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To examine the condition of (anything) by causing the same to emit sounds and noting their character; as, to sound a piece of timber; to sound a vase; to sound the lungs of a patient.
Sound
v. t.
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To signify; to import; to denote.
Soundable
a.
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Capable of being sounded.
Soundage
n.
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Dues for soundings.
Sound-board
n.
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A sounding-board.
Sounder
n.
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One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
Sounder
n.
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A herd of wild hogs.
Sounding
a.
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Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words.
Sounding
n.
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The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs).
Sounding
n.
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measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained.
Sounding
n.
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Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural.
Sounding
n.
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The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
Sounding-board
n.
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A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments.
Sounding-board
n.
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A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice.
Sounding-board
n.
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See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise.
Soundless
a.
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Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable.
Soundless
a.
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Having no sound; noiseless; silent.
Soundly
adv.
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In a sound manner.
Soundness
n.
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The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith.