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Sound

//saʊnd// adj, adv, intj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective

1
Healthy.
"He was safe and sound."
2
Complete, solid, or secure.
"Fred assured me the floorboards were sound."
3
Having the property of soundness.
"With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]"
4
Good; acceptable; decent. British, Ireland, slang
"How are you? —I'm sound."
5
Quiet and deep.
"Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, and often deeply."

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6
Heavy; laid on with force.
"a sound beating"
7
Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
"a sound title to land"

Adjective

1
complete; thorough wordnet
2
(of sleep) deep and complete wordnet
3
in excellent physical condition wordnet
4
exercising or showing good judgment wordnet
5
free from moral defect wordnet

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financially secure and safe wordnet
7
in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay wordnet
8
vigorous or severe wordnet
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having legal efficacy or force wordnet
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logically valid wordnet

Adverb

1
Soundly.
"So ſound he ſlept, that nought mought him awake."

Intj

1
Yes; used to show agreement or understanding. British, Ireland, slang
"I found my jacket. — Sound."

Proper Noun

1
The strait that separates Zealand (an island of Denmark) from Scania (part of Sweden); also sometimes called by the Danish name, Øresund.
2
Synonym of Plymouth Sound, Devon, England.

Noun

1
A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium. countable, uncountable
"He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him. Nobody made a sound."
2
A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.
"Puget Sound; Owen Sound; Long Island Sound"
3
A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.
"Most mild cases respond very nicely to such relatively simple office procedures as dilatations with sounds of increasing calibre, followed by the instillation of an ounce of 5 per cent argyrol in the bladder."
4
the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause wordnet
5
A vibration capable of causing such sensations. countable, uncountable
"In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in."

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6
The air bladder of a fish.
"Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food."
7
the subjective sensation of hearing something wordnet
8
A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc. countable, uncountable
"He looks like he's got it, maybe. Listen to those kids!/There's no maybe about it. That's it, that's the sound."
9
the audible part of a transmitted signal wordnet
10
Noise without meaning; empty noise. countable, uncountable
"For let us conſider this Prepoſition as to its meaning, (for it is the ſence, and not ſound, that is and muſt be the Principle or common Notion) […]"
11
(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language wordnet
12
Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard. countable, uncountable
"Stay within the sound of my voice."
13
the sudden occurrence of an audible event wordnet
14
A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound. countable, uncountable
15
a large ocean inlet or deep bay wordnet
16
a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water wordnet
17
mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium wordnet

Verb

1
To produce a sound. intransitive
"When the horn sounds, take cover."
2
Of a whale, to dive downwards. intransitive
"The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive."
3
measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line wordnet
4
To convey an impression by one's sound. copulative
"He sounded good when we last spoke."
5
To ascertain, or to try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
"When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal."

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utter with vibrating vocal chords wordnet
7
To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound. intransitive
"For from you ſounded out the worde of the Lord, not in Macedonia & in Achaia onely: but your faith alſo which is towarde God, ſpred abroade in all quarters, that we nede not to ſpeake any thing."
8
To fathom or test; to ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
"Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope."
9
appear in a certain way wordnet
10
To resound. intransitive, obsolete
11
To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
"to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra"
12
give off a certain sound or sounds wordnet
13
To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy. intransitive, often
"In my opinion this claim sounds in damages rather than in an injunction."
14
make a certain noise or sound wordnet
15
To cause to produce a sound. transitive
"Sound the alarm!"
16
cause to sound wordnet
17
To pronounce. transitive
"The "e" in "house" isn't sounded."
18
announce by means of a sound wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English sound, sund, isund, ȝesund, from Old English sund (“sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous”), from Proto-West Germanic *sund, from Proto-Germanic *sundaz (“healthy”), merged with synonymous Old English ġesund, from Proto-West Germanic *gasund. Cognate with Scots sound, soun (“healthy, sound”), Saterland Frisian suund, gesuund (“healthy”), West Frisian sûn (“healthy”), Dutch gezond (“healthy, sound”), Low German sund, gesund (“healthy”), German gesund (“healthy, sound”), Danish sund (“healthy”), Swedish sund (“sound, healthy”). Possibly related also to Dutch gezwind (“fast, quick”), German geschwind (“fast, quick”), Old English swīþ (“strong, mighty, powerful, active, severe, violent”). See swith.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Etymology 4

* Noun: from Middle English sownde, alteration of soun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sun, soun, Old French son, from accusative of Latin sonus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- (“to sound, resound”). * Verb: from Middle English sownden, sounen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suner, sounder, Old French soner (modern sonner), from Latin sonō. * The hypercorrect -d appears in the fifteenth century. (Compare dialectal drownd, gownd for the same development.) Displaced native Middle English swei, from Old English swēġ, from Proto-Germanic *swōgiz.

Etymology 5

Etymology 6

From Middle English sound, sund (“body of water; swimming; air bladder of a fish”), from Old English sund (“the power, capacity, or act of swimming; swimming; sea; ocean; water; sound; strait; channel”), Old Norse sund (“channel, inlet, strait”), from Proto-Germanic *sundą (“swimming; sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem- (“swimming; sea”). Cognate with Dutch zond (“sound; strait”), Danish sund (“sound; strait; channel”), Swedish sund (“sound; strait; channel”), Icelandic sund (“sound; strait; channel”), German Sund. Related to swim.

Etymology 7

From Middle English sounden, from Old French sonder, from sonde (“sounding line”) of Germanic origin, compare Old English sundgyrd (“a sounding rod”), sundline (“a sounding line”), Old English sund (“water, sea”). More at Etymology 3 above.

Etymology 8

Etymology 9

From the common noun sound (“strait, inlet”).

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