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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Echo :: Echo (v. i.) To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations..
Articulately :: Articulately (adv.) With distinct utterance of the separate sounds.
Clatter :: Clatter (n.) A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds..
Onomatopoeia :: Onomatopoeia (n.) The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire..
Buccinal :: Buccinal (a.) Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.
Ripple :: Ripple (n.) A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by little waves; as, a ripple of laughter..
Pentachord :: Pentachord (n.) An order or system of five sounds.
Macron :: Macron (n.) A short, straight, horizontal mark [-], placed over vowels to denote that they are to be pronounced with a long sound; as, a, in dame; /, in s/am, etc..
Monstrous :: Monstrous (a.) Extraordinary in a way to excite wonder, dislike, apprehension, etc.; -- said of size, appearance, color, sound, etc.; as, a monstrous height; a monstrous ox; a monstrous story..
Flute :: Flute (v. i.) To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound..
Beating :: Beating (n.) Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n..
Voice :: Voice (n.) Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice..
Shrill :: Shrill (n.) A shrill sound.
Hoop :: Hoop (v. i.) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout..
Lowing :: Lowing (n.) The calling sound made by cows and other bovine animals.
Unison :: Unison (n.) Sounded alike in pitch; unisonant; unisonous; as, unison passages, in which two or more parts unite in coincident sound..
Down :: Down (adv.) Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound..
Orthodoxy :: Orthodoxy (n.) Soundness of faith; a belief in the doctrines taught in the Scriptures, or in some established standard of faith; -- opposed to heterodoxy or to heresy..
Bombast :: Bombast (n.) Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
Acuteness :: Acuteness (n.) Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds.
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