Sound

adjective sounder · soundest · soune · sownd · sowne

1. Healthy. He was safe and sound.
2. Complete, solid, or secure. Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.
3. Having the property of soundness. 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
4. Ireland, UK, slang Good; acceptable; decent. How are you? —I'm sound.
5. Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, and often deeply.
6. Heavy; laid on with force. a sound beating
7. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective. a sound title to land

adverb more sound · most sound · soune · sownd · sowne

1. Soundly. So ſound he ſlept, that nought mought him awake.

interjection soune · sownd · sowne

1. Ireland, UK, slang Yes; used to show agreement or understanding. I found my jacket. — Sound.

noun sounds · soune · sownd · sowne

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. In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.
3. countable, uncountable A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc. He looks like he's got it, maybe. Listen to those kids!/There's no maybe about it. That's it, that's the sound.
4. countable, uncountable Noise without meaning; empty noise. For let us conſider this Prepoſition as to its meaning, (for it is the ſence, and not ſound, that is and muſt be the Principle or common Notion) […]
5. countable, uncountable Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard. Stay within the sound of my voice.
6. countable, uncountable A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound.

Similar: noise, sound

verb sounds · sounding · sounded · soune · sownd

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.
3. intransitive To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound. For from you ſounded out the worde of the Lord, not in Macedonia & in Achaia onely: but your faith alſo which is towarde God, ſpred abroade in all quarters, that we nede not to ſpeake any thing.
4. intransitive, obsolete To resound.
5. intransitive, often 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!
7. transitive To pronounce. The "e" in "house" isn't sounded.

Similar: echo, reecho, resonate

noun sounds · soune · sownd · sowne

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

Similar: noise, sound

verb sounds · sounding · sounded · soune · sownd

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion. to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra

noun sounds · soune · sownd · sowne

1. A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde. Most mild cases respond very nicely to such relatively simple office procedures as dilatations with sounds of increasing calibre, followed by the instillation of an ounce of 5 per cent argyrol in the bladder.

Similar: noise, sound

proper noun The Sound

1. The strait that separates Zealand (an island of Denmark) from Scania (part of Sweden); also sometimes called by the Danish name, Øresund.
2. Synonym of Plymouth Sound, Devon, England.