sound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /saʊnd/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /sæʊn/
ipa: /suːnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: sounds
form: sounding
form: sounded
form: sounded
form: soune
form: sownd
form: sowne
Etymology: * 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.
Senses: examples: text: When the horn sounds, take cover.
glosses: To produce a sound.
examples: text: He sounded good when we last spoke.
text: That story sounds like a pack of lies!
text: How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues!
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To convey an impression by one's sound.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: […] Rouland Hall, →OCLC, I. Thessalonians I:8, folio 95, recto:
glosses: To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
glosses: To resound.
examples: text: In my opinion this claim sounds in damages rather than in an injunction.
text: […]there can be no doubt that claims brought pursuant to § 1983 sound in tort.
ref: 1999, Supreme Court of the United States, City of Monterey v. Del Monte Dunes at Montery, Ltd. et al.:
topics: law
glosses: 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.
raw_tags: with in
examples: text: Sound the alarm!
text: He sounds the instrument.
text: 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.
ref: 1955 March, “Train Describers at Euston”, in Railway Magazine, page 170:
glosses: To cause to produce a sound.
examples: text: The "e" in "house" isn't sounded.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To pronounce.
raw_tags: of a vowel or consonant
Synonyms: sense: to make noise
word: echo
sense: to make noise
word: reecho
sense: to make noise
word: resonate
Derived terms: Bakersfield sound
Bristol sound
by the sound of it
Canterbury sound
empty vessels make the most sound
found sound
heart sound
high lonesome sound
I can't hear you over the sound of
infrasound
instantaneous sound pressure
Jersey sound
like the sound of one's own voice
Liverpool sound
Mersey sound
Minneapolis sound
missound
Nashville sound
New Jersey sound
outsound
re-sound
San Francisco sound
second sound
sh sound
soundage
sound-alike
sound alphabet
sound and fury
sound and light
sound-and-light show
sound art
sound artist
sound barrier
sound bath
sound bite
soundbite
sound blimp
sound booth
sound bow
sound bowl
sound box
sound camera
sound card
sound change
sound clip
sound cut
sound design
sound designer
sounded
sound effect
sound energy
sound engineer
sound engineering
sounder
soundex
sound film
soundfont
soundgarden
sound head
sound hole
sounding board
sounding stone
sound isolation
sound law
soundless
sound like
sound man
soundman
sound mirror
sound money
sound off
sound-on-film
sound on the goose
sound out
sound plural
sound poetry
sound pollution
sound post
sound pressure
sound projection
soundproof
sound-proof
sound recording
sound reproduction
soundscape
soundset
sound shadow
sound shift
sound spectrum
sound stage
soundstage
sound structure
sound-symbolic
sound symbolism
sound system
sound table
sound technician
sound the alarm
sound the drum
sound therapy
sound track
soundtrack
sound truck
sound wall
sound wave
speech sound
speed of sound
surround-sound
surround sound
third heart sound
third sound
ultrasound
unsound
voiced sound
wall of sound
word sound