sound

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English [edit]

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Etymology 1 [edit]

From Middle English sound, sund, isund, ȝesund, from Old English sund, ġesund (“sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous”), from Proto-Germanic *gasundaz, *sundaz (“healthy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sunt-, *swent- (“vigorous, active, healthy”). Cognate with Scots sound, soun (“healthy, sound”), Saterland Frisian suund, gesuund (“healthy”), West Frisian sûn (“healthy”), Dutch gezond (“healthy, sound”), Low German sund, gesund (“healthy”), German gesund (“healthy, sound”), Danish sund (“healthy”), Swedish sund (“sound, healthy”), Irish fétaid (“to be able”). Related also to German geschwind (“fast, quick”), Old English swīþ (“strong, mighty, powerful, active, severe, violent”). See swith.

Adjective [edit]

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.
    "How are you?" - "I'm sound."
    That's a sound track you're playing.
  5. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
    Her sleep was sound.
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terms derived from sound (adjective)
Translations [edit]
healthy
complete, solid, or secure
UK, slang: good or a good thing
sound asleep — see sound asleep
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Adverb [edit]

sound (comparative more sound, superlative most sound)

  1. Soundly.
    • Spenser
      So sound he slept that naught might him awake.

Interjection [edit]

sound

  1. (UK, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
    "I found my jacket." - "Sound."

Etymology 2 [edit]

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Noun [edit]

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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Translations [edit]
sensation perceived by the ear
vibration capable of causing this
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Verb [edit]

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, take cover.
  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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Derived terms
Translations [edit]
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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Etymology 3 [edit]

From Middle English sound, sund, from Old English sund (“the power, capacity, or act of swimming; swimming; sea; ocean; water; sound; strait; channel”), from Proto-Germanic *sundą (“swimming; sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem- (“swimming; sea”). Cognate with Dutch sond (“sound; strait”), Danish sund (“sound; strait; channel”), Swedish sund (“sound; strait; channel”), Icelandic sund (“sound; strait; channel”). Related to swim.

Noun [edit]

sound (plural sounds)

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  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.
    Puget Sound; Owen Sound
    • Camden
      The Sound of Denmark, where ships pay toll.
Translations [edit]
long narrow inlet

Etymology 4 [edit]

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

Verb [edit]

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; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
    Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.
Translations [edit]
to dive downwards, of a whale
to probe
to test

Noun [edit]

sound (plural sounds)

  1. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.
Translations [edit]
a probe

Etymology 5 [edit]

Old English sund, a swimming, akin to modern swim.

Noun [edit]

sound (plural sounds)

  1. The air bladder of a fish.
    Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

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From English

Noun [edit]

sound m (invariable)

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