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sound, n.
(sounds)
freq. cnt. 81
more info the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause
<noun.attribute>   freq. cnt.: 36 freq. cnt.: 36

sound

sample sentences

"the sound of rain on the roof"
"the beautiful sound of music"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
sound sound sound sound
antonym
silence
semantic pointers
hypernym
sound property
hyponym
noisiness, racketiness ring unison voice
more info the subjective sensation of hearing something
<noun.cognition>   freq. cnt.: 16 freq. cnt.: 16

auditory sensation sound

sample sentences

"he strained to hear the faint sounds"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
sound sound sound
semantic pointers
hypernym
sensation, sense datum, esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense impression
hyponym
music, euphony music tone, pure tone noise, dissonance, racket dub
more info the sudden occurrence of an audible event
<noun.event>   freq. cnt.: 11 freq. cnt.: 11

sound

sample sentences

"the sound awakened them"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
sound sound sound sound
semantic pointers
hypernym
occurrence, happening, occurrent, natural event
hyponym
bong beat beep, bleep bell, toll buzz, bombilation, bombination click, chink, clink chirp chirrup, twitter chorus click-clack clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clopping, clunking, clumping cry ding drip, dripping drum footstep, footfall, step gargle gurgle jingle, jangle knock, knocking murmur, muttering, murmuring, mutter, murmuration, mussitation noise paradiddle, roll, drum roll tap, pat, rap patter peal, pealing, roll, rolling ping plunk popping, pop purr quack quaver ringing, ring, tintinnabulation rub-a-dub, rataplan, drumbeat sigh skirl song strum susurration, susurrus swish tapping throbbing thumping, thud, thump, clump, clunk thrum thunk tick, ticking tinkle, ting toot tootle trampling, trample twang vibrato voice vroom whack whirring, whir, whirr, birr whistling, whistle whiz zing zizz
more info mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium
<noun.phenomenon>   freq. cnt.: 11 freq. cnt.: 11

sound

sample sentences

"falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
sound sound sound sound
semantic pointers
hypernym
mechanical phenomenon
hyponym
ultrasound
more info the audible part of a transmitted signal
<noun.communication>   freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 6

audio sound

sample sentences

"they always raise the audio for commercials"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
sound sound
semantic pointers
part holonym
television, telecasting, TV, video
hypernym
auditory communication
more info (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
<noun.communication>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

phone sound speech sound
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
sound sound
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
phonetic phonic phonetic phonic phonate
semantic pointers
domain of synset (topic)
phonetics
hypernym
linguistic unit, language unit
part holonym
utterance, vocalization
hyponym
phoneme vowel, vowel sound semivowel, glide consonant orinasal phone, orinasal sonant, voiced sound
more info a large ocean inlet or deep bay
<noun.object>

sound

sample sentences

"the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
sound
semantic pointers
hypernym
water, body of water
instance hyponym
Long Island Sound Puget Sound Queen Charlotte Sound
more info a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
<noun.object>   freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 3

sound strait
semantic pointers
instance hyponym
Dardanelles, Canakkale Bogazi, Hellespont East River Bering Strait Bosporus Cook Strait Golden Gate Kattegatt Korean Strait, Korea Strait Menai Strait North Channel Skagerrak, Skagerak Solent Strait of Georgia Strait of Gibraltar Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Ormuz Strait of Magellan Strait of Messina Strait of Dover, Strait of Calais, Pas de Calais Strait of Malacca Torres Strait
hypernym
channel
hyponym
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