sound

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[edit] Etymology 1

Old English gesund (“safe", "whole", "healthy”); cognate with German gesund

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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. (mathematics, logic) (argument, logical system) having the soundness property.
    • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
      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 […]
  4. (UK, slang) Good or a good thing.
    "How are you?" - "I'm sound."
    That's a sound track you're playing.
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terms derived from sound (adjective)
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healthy
complete, solid, or secure
UK, slang: good or a good thing
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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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[edit] Noun

sound (plural sounds)

  1. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
    Nobody made a sound.
    He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him.
  2. A vibration capable of causing this.
  3. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc
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sensation perceived by the ear
vibration capable of causing this
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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 produce a sound
to state or utter, especially with deliberation; to repeat
to cause to produce a sound
law: to arise
to pronounce
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[edit] Etymology 3

Old English sund

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sound (plural sounds)

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

[edit] Etymology 4

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

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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
    When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.
  3. test
    Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope
[edit] Translations
to dive downwards, of a whale
to probe
to test

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sound (plural sounds)

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

[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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sound asleep — see sound asleep

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From English

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sound m. inv.

  1. (music) sound (distinctive style and sonority)
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