Meaning of sound in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

adjective

• Healthy.

  Example: He was safe and sound.

• Complete, solid, or secure.

  Example: Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.

• Having the property of soundness.

• Good; acceptable; decent.

  Example: "How are you?" - "I'm sound."

• (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.

  Example: Her sleep was sound.

• Heavy; laid on with force.

  Example: a sound beating

• Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.

  Example: a sound title to land

adverb

• Soundly.

interjection

• Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.

noun

• A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.

  Example: He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him.  Nobody made a sound.

• A vibration capable of causing such sensations.

• A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc

• Noise without meaning; empty noise.

• Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.

  Example: Stay within the sound of my voice.

verb

• To produce a sound.

  Example: When the horn sounds, take cover.

• To convey an impression by one's sound.

  Example: He sounded good when we last spoke.

• To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.

• To resound.

• (often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law.

• To cause to produce a sound.

  Example: He sounds the instrument.

• (of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.

  Example: The "e" in "house" isn't sounded.

noun

• 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.

  Example: Puget Sound; Owen Sound

• The air bladder of a fish.

  Example: Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

• A cuttlefish.

noun

• An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.

noun

• A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

verb

• Dive downwards, used of a whale.

  Example: The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.

• To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.

  Example: When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.

• Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.

  Example: Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.

• To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.

  Example: to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra