sound
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Healthy.
He was safe and sound.
In horse management a sound horse is one with no health problems that might affect its suitability for its intended work.
- 2.
Complete, solid, or secure.
Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.
- 3.
(mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
- 4.
(British, Ireland, slang)Good; acceptable; decent.
How are you? —I'm sound.
That's a sound track you're playing.
See that man over there? He's sound. You should get to know him.
- 5.
(of sleep) Quiet and deep.
Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, and often deeply.
Her sleep was sound.
a sound night’s sleep
- 6.
Heavy; laid on with force.
a sound beating
- 7.
Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
a sound title to land
Trạng từ
adverb- 1.
Soundly.
interjection
interjectionsounesowndsowne
- 1.
(British, Ireland, slang)Yes; used to show agreement or understanding.
I found my jacket. — Sound.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)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.
(countable, uncountable)A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)(music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)Noise without meaning; empty noise.
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.
Stay within the sound of my voice.
- 6.
(countable, uncountable)(phonetics) A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound.
- 7.
(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; Long Island Sound
- 8.
The air bladder of a fish.
Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
- 9.
(medicine) A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To produce a sound.
When the horn sounds, take cover.
- 2.
(copulative)To convey an impression by one's sound.
He sounded good when we last spoke.
That story sounds like a pack of lies!
- 3.
(intransitive)To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
- 4.
(intransitive, obsolete)To resound.
- 5.
(intransitive, often)(intransitive, law, often with in) 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.
In my opinion this claim sounds in damages rather than in an injunction.
- 6.
(transitive)To cause to produce a sound.
Sound the alarm!
He sounds the instrument.
- 7.
(transitive)(transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
The "e" in "house" isn't sounded.
- 8.
(intransitive)Of a whale, to dive downwards.
The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.
- 9.
To ascertain, or to try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.
- 10.
To fathom or test; to 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.
- 11.
(medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra
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From Middle English sound, sund, isund, ȝesund, from Old English sund (sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous), from *sund, from Proto-Germanic *sundaz (healthy), merged with synonymous Old English ġesund, from *gasund.