| Main Entry: | sound |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something heard or audible |
Synonyms: |
accent, din, harmony, intonation, loudness, melody, modulation, music, noise, note, pitch, racket, report, resonance, reverberation, ringing, softness, sonance, sonancy, sonority, sonorousness, static, tenor, tonality, tone, vibration, voice |
Antonyms: |
silence |
| Main Entry: | volume |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loudness of a sound |
Synonyms: |
amplification, degree, intensity, power, sonority, strength |
| Main Entry: | resonance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reverberation |
Synonyms: |
fullness, plangency, sonority, vibration |
| Main Entry: | resonance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
amphoric, armisonant, clinquant, crepitating, deep, deep, grandisonant, gruff, hissing, hollow, libratory, like a bee in a bottle, megalophonous, oscillating, oscillatory, pendulous, plangent, pulsatory, reboantic, resonant, resounding, rolling, sepulchral, sibilant, sibilous, stridulous, tinnient, tintinnabulary, undulating, unundulating, vibratile, vibratory, wheezy
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| Main Entry: | sound |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
Related
Adjectives: |
deaf, faint, loud, acoustic, altitonant, amphorous, anechoic, assonant, audible, audio, auditory, aural, auricular, borborygmic, buccinal, cacuminal, closed, distinct, dumb, foudroyant, glad, inaudible, isacoustic, monophonic, mum, mute, noisy, non, quadraphonic, quiet, rataplan, raucous, reel, rooped, roupy, singultous, soft, sonant, sonic, soniferous, sonorific, sonorous, sounding, soundproof, stereophonic, stertorous, still, stone, supersonic, throaty, tone
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| Concept: | Sound. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; sound; sound in general |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
-verbs
produce sound; sound, make a noise; give out sound, emit sound; resound.
-adjectives
sounding; soniferous; sonorous, sonorific; resonant, audible, distinct; stertorous; phonetic; phonic, phonocamptic.
-phrases
"a thousand trills and quivering sounds" [Addison]; forensis strepitus.
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Antonyms: |
silence |
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| Concept: | Resonance. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; sound; specific sounds |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
resonance; ring; ringing; reflexion, reflection, reverberation; tinnitis., low note, base note, bass note, flat note, grave note, deep note; bass; basso, basso profondo; baritone, barytone; contralto.
-verbs
resound, reverberate, reecho, resonate; ring, jingle, gingle, chink, clink; tink, tinkle; chime; gurgle plash, goggle, echo, ring in the ear.
-adjectives
resounding; resonant, reverberant, tinnient, tintinnabulary; deep-toned, deep-sounding, deep-mouthed; hollow, sepulchral; gruff (harsh).
-phrases
"sweet bells jangled, out of time and harsh" [Hamlet]; echoing down the mountain and through the dell.
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Antonyms: |
nonresonance |
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