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sound > 24 senses
ADJECTIVE	1	sound	Financially secure and safe
	2	sound, healthy, intelligent, levelheaded, level-headed	Exercising or showing good judgment
	3	sound	In good condition
	4	sound, good	In excellent physical condition
	5	sound, reasoned, well-grounded	Logically valid
	6	sound, legal, effectual	Having legal efficacy or force
	7	sound	Free from moral defect
	8	sound, heavy, profound, wakeless	(of sleep) deep and complete
	9	sound	Thorough
NOUN	1	sound	The particular auditory effect produced by a given cause
	2	sound, auditory sensation	The subjective sensation of hearing something
	3	sound	Mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium
	4	sound	The sudden occurrence of an audible event
	5	sound, audio	The audible part of a transmitted signal
	6	sound, phone, speech sound	(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
	7	sound, strait	A narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
	8	sound	A large ocean inlet or deep bay
VERB	1	sound	Appear in a certain way
	2	sound, go	Make a certain noise or sound
	3	sound	Give off a certain sound or sounds
	4	sound	Announce by means of a sound
	5	sound, voice, vocalize, vocalise	Utter with vibrating vocal chords
	6	sound	Cause to sound
	7	sound, fathom	Measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line

sound > pronunciation
Sounds	saw'nd
Rhymes	abound, aground, around, and 53 more rhymes in awnd...

sound > adjective 1
Meaning	Financially secure and safe.
Examples	"sound investments"; "a sound economy"
Contrary	unsound
Similar	dependable, good, safe, secure; healthy; solid; stable
See also	unbroken; undamaged; fit, healthy; healthy; uninjured; wholesome
Nouns	soundness

sound > adjective 2
Meaning	Exercising or showing good judgment.
Examples	"a sound approach to the problem"; "sound advice"; "no sound explanation for his decision"
Synonyms	healthy, intelligent, levelheaded, level-headed
Similar to	reasonable, sensible

sound > adjective 3
Meaning	In good condition. Free from defect or damage or decay.
Examples	"a sound timber"; "the wall is sound"; "a sound foundation"
Contrary	unsound
Similar	solid, strong, substantial
Nouns	soundness

sound > adjective 4
Meaning	In excellent physical condition.
Examples	"a sound mind in a sound body"
Synonyms	good
Similar to	healthy
Nouns	soundness

sound > adjective 5
Meaning	Logically valid.
Examples	"a sound argument"
Synonyms	reasoned, well-grounded
Similar to	valid
Nouns	soundness

sound > adjective 6
Meaning	Having legal efficacy or force.
Examples	"a sound title to the property"
Synonyms	legal, effectual
Similar to	valid

sound > adjective 7
Meaning	Free from moral defect.
Examples	"a man of sound character"
Similar to	righteous
Nouns	soundness

sound > adjective 8
Meaning	(of sleep) deep and complete.
Examples	"a sound sleeper"
Synonyms	heavy, profound, wakeless
Similar to	deep
Adverbs	soundly

sound > adjective 9
Meaning	Thorough.
Examples	"a sound thrashing"
Similar to	complete
Adverbs	soundly

sound > noun 1, attribute
Meaning	The particular auditory effect produced by a given cause.
Examples	"the sound of rain on the roof"; "the beautiful sound of music"
Contrary	silence, quiet
Broader	sound property
Narrower	noisiness, racketiness; ring; unison; voice
Verbs	sound; sound; sound; sound

sound > noun 2, cognition
Meaning	The subjective sensation of hearing something.
Examples	"he strained to hear the faint sounds"
Synonyms	auditory sensation
Broader	sensation, esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense impression, sense datum
Narrower	music, euphony; music; tone, pure tone; noise, dissonance, racket
Verbs	sound; sound; sound

sound > noun 3, phenomenon
Meaning	Mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium.
Examples	"falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them"
Broader	mechanical phenomenon
Narrower	ultrasound
Verbs	sound; sound; sound; sound

sound > noun 4, event
Meaning	The sudden occurrence of an audible event.
Examples	"the sound awakened them"
Broader	happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
Narrower	bong; beat; beep, bleep; bell, toll; buzz, bombilation, bombination; chink, click, clink; chirp; chirrup, twitter; chorus; click-clack; clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clopping, clunking, clumping; cry; ding; drip, dripping; drum; footfall, footstep, step; gargle; gurgle; jingle, jangle; knock, knocking; mutter, muttering, murmur, murmuring, murmuration, mussitation; noise; paradiddle, roll, drum roll; pat, rap, tap; patter; peal, pealing, roll, rolling; ping; plunk; pop, popping; purr; quack; quaver; ring, ringing, tintinnabulation; rub-a-dub, rataplan, drumbeat; sigh; skirl; song; strum; susurration, susurrus; swish; tapping; throbbing; thump, thumping, clump, clunk, thud; thrum; thunk; tick, ticking; ting, tinkle; toot; tootle; trample, trampling; twang; vibrato; voice; vroom; whack; whir, whirr, whirring, birr; whistle, whistling; whiz; zing; zizz
Verbs	sound; sound; sound; sound

sound > noun 5, communication
Meaning	The audible part of a transmitted signal.
Synonyms	audio
Part of	television, telecasting, TV, video
Broader	auditory communication
Verbs	sound; sound

sound > noun 6, communication
Meaning	(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language.
Synonyms	phone, speech sound
Part of	utterance, vocalization
Category	phonetics
Broader	language unit, linguistic unit
Narrower	phoneme; vowel, vowel sound; semivowel, glide; consonant; orinasal phone, orinasal; sonant, voiced sound
Verbs	sound; sound

sound > noun 7, object
Meaning	A narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water.
Synonyms	strait
Broader	channel
Narrower	narrow
Instances	Dardanelles, Canakkale Bogazi, Hellespont; East River; Bering Strait; Bosporus; Cook Strait; Golden Gate; Kattegatt; Korean Strait, Korea Strait; Menai Strait; North Channel; Skagerrak, Skagerak; Solent; Strait of Georgia; Strait of Gibraltar; Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Ormuz; Strait of Magellan; Strait of Messina; Strait of Dover, Strait of Calais, Pas de Calais; Torres Strait

sound > noun 8, object
Meaning	A large ocean inlet or deep bay.
Examples	"the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast"
Broader	body of water, water
Instances	Long Island Sound; Puget Sound; Queen Charlotte Sound
Verbs	sound

sound > verb 1, perception
Meaning	Appear in a certain way.
Pattern	Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective
Model	John will sound angry
Examples	"This sounds interesting"
Broader	look, appear, seem

sound > verb 2, perception
Meaning	Make a certain noise or sound.
Pattern	Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective
Model	The woods sound with many kinds of birds
Synonyms	go
Caused by	sound; ring, knell
Broader	cause to be perceived
Narrower	snarl; whistle, sing; blow; ting; make noise, resound, noise; splat; twang; clang, clangor; clank; clangor, clangour; boom, boom out; drum, beat, thrum; rattle; tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat; resonate, vibrate; tweet, twirp; skirl; gurgle; glug; blow; whish; guggle; ping; pink, ping, knock; trump; squelch; chug; ring, peal; buzz, bombinate, bombilate; chime; rustle; snap, crack; crack; honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot; whistle; resound, echo, ring, reverberate; thud, thump; clop, clump, clunk, plunk; patter, pitter-patter; tap, rap, knock, pink; click, tick; chatter, click; pop; tinkle, tink, clink, chink; splash, splosh, slosh, slush; hum, thrum; bleep; rumble, grumble; boom, din; bang; ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle; lap, swish, swosh, swoosh; drone; whizz, whiz, whirr, whir, birr, purr; roll
Nouns	sound; sound; sound; sound

sound > verb 3, perception
Meaning	Give off a certain sound or sounds.
Pattern	Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective
Examples	"This record sounds scratchy"
Narrower	cackel; play; dissonate; pierce; speak
Nouns	sound; sound; sound; sound

sound > verb 4, perception
Meaning	Announce by means of a sound.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something
Examples	"sound the alarm"
Broader	announce, denote
Nouns	sound; sound; sound; sound; sound; sound

sound > verb 5, communication
Meaning	Utter with vibrating vocal chords.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something
Synonyms	voice, vocalize, vocalise
Contrary	devoice
Broader	pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
Narrower	chirk; quaver, waver
Nouns	sound; sonant

sound > verb 6, perception
Meaning	Cause to sound.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
Examples	"sound the bell"; "sound a certain note"
Cause to	sound, go
See also	sound off
Narrower	play; blow; twang; prepare; gong; ting; strum, thrum; ring, knell; pop; clink
Nouns	sound; sound; sound; sound

sound > verb 7, change
Meaning	Measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something
Synonyms	fathom
Broader	quantify, measure
Nouns	sounding; sound; sounding; sounder

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