sound
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Is sound a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.Examples: "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[…]"
2. (British, Ireland, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.Examples: "How are you? —I'm sound."; "That's a sound track you're playing."; "See that man over there? He's sound. You should get to know him."BritishIrelandslang
3. (of sleep) Quiet and deep.Examples: "Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, and often deeply."; "Her sleep was sound."
intj (English)
1. (British, Ireland, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding.Examples: "I found my jacket. — Sound."BritishIrelandslang
noun (English)
1. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.Examples: "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."countableuncountable
2. (phonetics) A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To produce a sound.Examples: "When the horn sounds, take cover."intransitive
2. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.Examples: "He sounded good when we last spoke."; "That story sounds like a pack of lies!"; "How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues!"copulative
3. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.Examples: "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."intransitive
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.intransitiveobsolete
5. (intransitive, law, often with in) 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.Examples: "In my opinion this claim sounds in damages rather than in an injunction."; "[…]there can be no doubt that claims brought pursuant to § 1983 sound in tort."intransitiveoften
6. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.Examples: "Sound the alarm!"; "He sounds the instrument."; "If a train enters the forward section before its description has been transmitted, a "not described" lamp is illuminated on the transmitter, an alarm buzzer is sounded, and the lamp remains alight until a description has been transmitted."transitive
noun (English)
1. (geography) 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.Examples: "Puget Sound; Owen Sound; Long Island Sound"; "The Sound of Denmarke, where ships pay toll."
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) Of a whale, to dive downwards.Examples: "The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive."intransitive
2. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.Examples: "to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra"
Definition source: Wiktionary