Definition of sound

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Sound (n.) 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..

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Resound :: Resound (v. t.) To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of..
Pulse :: Pulse (n.) Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement..
Tinkle :: Tinkle (v. t.) To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds..
Raspy :: Raspy (a.) Like a rasp, or the sound made by a rasp; grating..
Semivocal :: Semivocal (a.) Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.
Syllable :: Syllable (n.) An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only
Hawk :: Hawk (v. i.) To clear the throat with an audible sound by forcing an expiratory current of air through the narrow passage between the depressed soft palate and the root of the tongue, thus aiding in the removal of foreign substances..
Vocalization :: Vocalization (n.) The formation and utterance of vocal sounds.
Bombilation :: Bombilation (n.) A humming sound; a booming.
Tune :: Tune (v. i.) To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.
Repair :: Repair (n.) Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair..
Chink :: Chink (v. i.) To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies..
U :: U () the twenty-first letter of the English alphabet, is a cursive form of the letter V, with which it was formerly used interchangeably, both letters being then used both as vowels and consonants. U and V are now, however, differentiated, U being used only as a vowel or semivowel, and V only as a consonant. The true primary vowel sound of U, in Anglo-Saxon, was the sound which it still retains in most of the languages of Europe, that of long oo, as in tool, and short oo, as in wood, answering t
Ting :: Ting (v. i.) To sound or ring, as a bell; to tinkle..
Hottentot :: Hottentot (n.) The language of the Hottentots, which is remarkable for its clicking sounds..
Viridity :: Viridity (n.) Freshness; soundness.
Sound :: Sound (v. i.) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
Palatal :: Palatal (a.) Uttered by the aid of the palate; -- said of certain sounds, as the sound of k in kirk..
Sound :: Sound (v. t.) 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..
Soun :: Soun (n. & v.) Sound.
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