Definition of sound

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Sound (v. i.) To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.

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Pop :: Pop (v. i.) To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound; as, the muskets popped away on all sides..
Homography :: Homography (n.) That method of spelling in which every sound is represented by a single character, which indicates that sound and no other..
Phthongometer :: Phthongometer (n.) An instrument for measuring vocal sounds.
Repair :: Repair (n.) Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city..
Gride :: Gride (e. i.) To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword..
Multisonous :: Multisonous (a.) Having many sounds, or sounding much..
Sound :: Sound (n.) Noise without signification; empty noise; noise and nothing else.
Quack :: Quack (n.) The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise..
Souffle :: Souffle (n.) A murmuring or blowing sound; as, the uterine souffle heard over the pregnant uterus..
Tune :: Tune (v. t.) To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin..
Band :: Band (v. t.) A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals..
Space :: Space (n.) A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile..
Larrup :: Larrup (v. t.) To beat or flog soundly.
Echoscope :: Echoscope (n.) An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax.
Clang :: Clang (n.) A loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together..
N :: N () the fourteenth letter of English alphabet, is a vocal consonent, and, in allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This is a simple but related sound, and is called the gutturo-nasal consonent. See Guide to Pronunciation,
Gobble :: Gobble (v. t.) To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
Tintinnabulary :: Tintinnabulary (a.) Having or making the sound of a bell; tinkling.
Drone :: Drone (n.) To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound..
Clatter :: Clatter (v. i.) To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds..
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