sound

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Etymology 1 1.3.1 Adjective 1.3.1.1 Derived terms 1.3.1.2 Translations 1.4 Etymology 2 1.4.1 Noun 1.4.1.1 Synonyms 1.4.1.2 Troponyms 1.4.1.3 Translations 1.4.1.4 See also 1.4.2 Verb 1.4.2.1 Synonyms 1.4.2.2 Derived terms 1.4.2.3 Translations 1.5 Etymology 3 1.5.1 Noun 1.5.1.1 Translations 1.6 Etymology 4 1.6.1 Verb 1.6.1.1 Translations 1.6.2 Noun 1.6.2.1 Translations 1.7 Etymology 5 1.7.1 Adjective 1.7.1.1 Related terms 1.7.1.2 Translations 2 Italian 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun

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[edit] Alternative spellings

• soune (obsolete), sowne (obsolete)

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• IPA: /saʊnd/, SAMPA: /saUnd/
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• Rhymes: -aʊnd

[edit] Etymology 1

Old English gesund (“‘safe", "whole", "healthy’”)

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sound (comparative sounder, superlative soundest)

1. Healthy.

   He was safe and sound.

2. Complete, solid, or secure.

   Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.

3. (British, slang) Good or a good thing.

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

   That's a sound track you're playing.

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[edit] Etymology 2

• Noun: from Anglo-Norman sun, soun, Old French son, from accusative of Latin sonus.
• Verb: from Anglo-Norman suner, Old French soner (modern sonner), from Latin sonare
• The euphonic -d appears in the fifteenth century.

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sound (plural sounds)

1. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium. (He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him.)

   Nobody made a sound.

2. A vibration capable of causing this.

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• See also Wikisaurus:sound

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• noise
• quiet
• silence

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• audible

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to sound (third-person singular simple present sounds, present participle sounding, simple past and past participle sounded)

1. (intransitive) To produce a sound.

   When the horn sounds, be careful.

2. (intransitive, copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.

   He sounded good when we last spoke.

3. (intransitive, law) To arise or to be recognizable as arising within a particular area of law.
   • 1999, Supreme Court of the United States, City of Monterey v. Del Monte Dunes at Montery, Ltd. et al.^[1]:

     [T]here can be no doubt that claims brought pursuant to § 1983 sound in tort.

4. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.

   He sounds the instrument.

5. (phonetics) To pronounce a vowel or a consonant.

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

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• (to make noise):echo, reecho, resonate
• See also Wikisaurus:sound

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Old English sund

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sound (plural sounds)

1. (geography): Long narrow inlet. (Puget Sound, Owen Sound, etc.)

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Middle English sounden, from Old French sonder, from sonde (“‘sounding line’”) of Germanic origin, cf. O.E. sundgyrd (“‘a sounding rod’”), sundline (“‘a sounding line’”), O.E. sund (“‘water", "sea’”). More at Etymology 3 above

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to sound (third-person singular simple present sounds, present participle sounding, simple past and past participle sounded)

1. (intransitive): dive downwards, used of a whale.

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

2. (transitive): probe
3. test

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sound (plural sounds)

1. A probe (e.g. a surgeon's tool)

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[edit] Etymology 5

most likely from a slighty altered usage of Etymology 1

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sound (comparative sounder, superlative soundest)

1. sound asleep; quietly resting, sleeping peacefully; undisturbed

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• safe and sound
• soundly

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English

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sound m. inv.

1. sound