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Noun sound has 8 senses

sound - the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause; "the sound of rain on the roof"; "the beautiful sound of music"
--₁ is a kind of sound property
Antonyms: silence, quiet
--₁ has particulars: noisiness, racketiness; ring; unison; voice
Derived forms: verb sound₆, verb sound₄, verb sound₃, verb sound₂
sound, auditory sensation - the subjective sensation of hearing something; "he strained to hear the faint sounds"
--₂ is a kind of sensation, sense experience, sense impression, sense datum
--₂ has particulars:
music, euphony; music; tone, pure tone; noise, dissonance, racket

Derived forms: verb sound₆, verb sound₄, verb sound₃
sound - mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium; "falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them"
--₃ is a kind of mechanical phenomenon
--₃ has particulars: ultrasound
Derived forms: verb sound₆, verb sound₄, verb sound₃, verb sound₂

sound - the sudden occurrence of an audible event; "the sound awakened them"
--₄ is a kind of happening, occurrence, natural event
--₄ has particulars:

beat; beep, bleep; bell, toll; buzz, bombilation, bombination; chink, click, clink; chirp; chirrup, twitter; chorus; click-clack; cry; 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; whack; whir, whirr, whirring, birr; whistle, whistling; whiz; zing; zizz

Derived forms: verb sound₆, verb sound₄, verb sound₃, verb sound₂

audio, sound - the audible part of a transmitted signal; "they always raise the audio for commercials"
--₅ is a kind of auditory communication
--₅ is a part of television, telecasting, TV, video
Derived forms: verb sound₄, verb sound₂
phone, speech sound, sound - (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
--₆ is a kind of language unit, linguistic unit
--₆ is a part of utterance, vocalization
--₆ has particulars:
phoneme; vowel, vowel sound; semivowel, glide; consonant; orinasal phone, orinasal; sonant, voiced sound

Derived forms: verb sound₅, verb sound₄

strait, sound - a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
--₇ is a kind of channel
--₇ has particulars:

sound - a large ocean inlet or deep bay; "the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast"
--₈ is a kind of body of water, water
--₈ has particulars: Long Island Sound; Puget Sound; Queen Charlotte Sound
Derived form: verb sound₇

Verb sound has 7 senses

sound - appear in a certain way; "This sounds interesting"
--₁ is one way to look, appear, seem
Sample sentence:
John will sound angry
sound, go - make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'"
--₂ is one way to cause to be perceived

Derived forms: noun sound₅, noun sound₄, noun sound₃, noun sound₁
Sample sentence:
The woods sound with many kinds of birds
sound - give off a certain sound or sounds; "This record sounds scratchy"

Derived forms: noun sound₃, noun sound₄, noun sound₂, noun sound₁
Sample sentences:
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
sound - announce by means of a sound; "sound the alarm"
--₄ is one way to announce, denote

Derived forms: noun sound₆, noun sound₅, noun sound₄, noun sound₃, noun sound₂, noun sound₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
voice, sound, vocalize, vocalise - utter with vibrating vocal chords
--₅ is one way to pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say

Derived forms: noun sound₆, noun sonant₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
sound - cause to sound; "sound the bell"; "sound a certain note"

Derived forms: noun sound₄, noun sound₃, noun sound₂, noun sound₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
fathom, sound - measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line
--₇ is one way to quantify, measure

Derived forms: noun sound₈, noun sounder₁, noun sounding₁, noun sounding₂
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something