Definition of sound

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Sound (v. i.) To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect.

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Fathomless :: Fathomless (a.) Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded.
Sound :: Sound (n.) The occasion of sound; the impulse or vibration which would occasion sound to a percipient if present with unimpaired; hence, the theory of vibrations in elastic media such cause sound; as, a treatise on sound..
Clank :: Clank (v. t.) To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains..
Asthma :: Asthma (n.) A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration..
Humming :: Humming (a.) Emitting a murmuring sound; droning; murmuring; buzzing.
Suicide :: Suicide (adv.) The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind..
Lagoon :: Lagoon (n.) A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice..
Clang :: Clang (v. i.) To give out a clang; to resound.
Healthful :: Healthful (a.) Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition..
Ideography :: Ideography (n.) The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc..
Fricative :: Fricative (n.) A fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-206, etc..
Reflected :: Reflected (a.) Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light, heat, sound, etc..
Hautboy :: Hautboy (n.) A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe..
Blow :: Blow (v. i.) To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet..
Viridity :: Viridity (n.) Freshness; soundness.
Palatize :: Palatize (v. t.) To modify, as the tones of the voice, by means of the palate; as, to palatize a letter or sound..
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..
Whiz :: Whiz (n.) A hissing and humming sound.
Language :: Language (n.) The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants.
Tautophony :: Tautophony (n.) Repetition of the same sound.
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