Definition of sound

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Sound (n.) The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food..

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Murmuring :: Murmuring (a. & n.) Uttering murmurs; making low sounds; complaining.
Medium :: Medium (n.) A substance through which an effect is transmitted from one thing to another; as, air is the common medium of sound. Hence: The condition upon which any event or action occurs; necessary means of motion or action; that through or by which anything is accomplished, conveyed, or carried on; specifically, in animal magnetism, spiritualism, etc., a person through whom the action of another being is said to be manifested and transmitted..
Snarl :: Snarl (v. i.) To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds..
Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ..
Write :: Write (v. i.) To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs..
Shrill :: Shrill (v. i.) Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces a sound..
Creak :: Creak (n.) The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
Sounding-board :: Sounding-board (n.) A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments..
Plummet :: Plummet (n.) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water..
Jug :: "Jug (v. i.) To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale..
Clap :: Clap (n.) A burst of sound; a sudden explosion.
Drone :: Drone (v. i.) A humming or deep murmuring sound.
Sounding :: Sounding (a.) Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words..
Rhonchus :: Rhonchus (n.) An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed. By some writers the term rhonchus is used as equivalent to rale in its widest sense. See Rale.
O :: O (n.) The letter O, or its sound..
Semivowel :: Semivowel (n.) A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y..
Ring :: Ring (v. t.) To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell..
Clink :: Clink (n.) A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies..
Fast :: Fast (v.) Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
Memnon :: Memnon (n.) A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise..
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