Толковый словарь английского языка - sound
Sound
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I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gesund; akin to Old High German gisunt healthy Date: 13th century 1. free from injury or disease ; exhibiting normal health, free from flaw, defect, or decay , solid , firm , 3. free from error, fallacy, or misapprehension , exhibiting or based on thorough knowledge and experience , legally valid , logically valid and having true premises, agreeing with accepted views ; orthodox , 4. thorough , deep and undisturbed , hard , severe , showing good judgment or sense , see: healthy ~ly adverb ~ness noun II. adverb Date: 14th century to the full extent ; thoroughly , III. noun Etymology: Middle English soun, from Anglo-French son, sun, from Latin sonus, from sonare to ~; akin to Old English swinn melody, Sanskrit svanati it ~s Date: 13th century 1. a particular auditory impression ; tone , the sensation perceived by the sense of hearing, mechanical radiant energy that is transmitted by longitudinal pressure waves in a material medium (as air) and is the objective cause of hearing, 2. a speech ~ , value in terms of speech ~s , rumor , fame , 4. meaningless noise, meaning , the impression conveyed ; import , hearing distance ; earshot , recorded auditory material, a particular musical style characteristic of an individual, a group, or an area , IV. verb Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. to cause to ~ , pronounce 3a, to put into words ; voice , 3. to make known ; proclaim , to order, signal, or indicate by a ~ , to examine by causing to emit ~s , to convey the impression of ; ~ like , intransitive verb 1. to make a ~, re~ , to give a summons by ~ , to make or convey an impression especially when heard , ~able adjective V. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sund swimming, sea & Old Norse sund swimming, strait; akin to Old English swimman to swim Date: 14th century 1. a long broad inlet of the ocean generally parallel to the coast, a long passage of water connecting two larger bodies (as a sea with the ocean) or separating a mainland and an island, the air bladder of a fish, VI. verb Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French sonder, from Old French *sonde ~ing line, probably from Old English or Middle English sund(as in Old English sundlīne ~ing line) from sund sea Date: 15th century transitive verb to measure the depth of ; fathom , to try to find out the views or intentions of ; probe , to explore or examine (a body cavity) with a ~, intransitive verb 1. to ascertain the depth of water especially with a ~ing line, to look into or investigate the possibility , to dive down suddenly, VII. noun Etymology: French sonde, from Middle French, literally, ~ing line Date: 1739 an elongated instrument for exploring or ~ing body cavities
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1. n. & v. --n. 1 a sensation caused in the ear by the vibration of the surrounding air or other medium. 2 a vibrations causing this sensation. b similar vibrations whether audible or not. 3 what is or may be heard. 4 an idea or impression conveyed by words (don't like the sound of that). 5 mere words (sound and fury). 6 (in full musical sound) sound produced by continuous and regular vibrations (opp. NOISE n. 3). 7 any of a series of articulate utterances (vowel and consonant sounds). 8 music, speech, etc., accompanying a film or other visual presentation. 9 (often attrib.) broadcasting by radio as distinct from television. --v. 1 intr. & tr. emit or cause to emit sound. 2 tr. utter or pronounce (sound a note of alarm). 3 intr. convey an impression when heard (you sound worried). 4 tr. give an audible signal for (an alarm etc.). 5 tr. test (the lungs etc.) by noting the sound produced. 6 tr. cause to resound; make known (sound their praises). Phrases and idioms sound barrier the high resistance of air to objects moving at speeds near that of sound. sound effect a sound other than speech or music made artificially for use in a play, film, etc. sound engineer an engineer dealing with acoustics etc. sound-hole an aperture in the belly of some stringed instruments. sound off talk loudly or express one's opinions forcefully. sound-post a small prop between the belly and back of some stringed instruments. sound shift see SHIFT n. 6. sound spectrograph an instrument for analysing sound into its frequency components. sound wave a wave of compression and rarefaction, by which sound is propagated in an elastic medium, e.g. air. Derivatives soundless adj. soundlessly adv. soundlessness n. Etymology: ME f. AF soun, OF son (n.), AF suner, OF soner (v.) f. L sonus 2. adj. & adv. --adj. 1 healthy; not diseased or injured. 2 (of an opinion or policy etc.) correct, orthodox, well-founded, judicious. 3 financially secure (a sound investment). 4 undisturbed (a sound sleeper). 5 severe, hard (a sound blow). --adv. soundly (sound asleep)....Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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