Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
comparative form of sound: more sound
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: comparative, form-of
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noun
Something or someone who makes a sound.
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noun
An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
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noun
A stethoscope.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, plural, plural-only
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
Synonym of sting (“brief musical sequence in television etc.”).
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noun
A device for making soundings at sea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A person who takes soundings.
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Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A fishfinder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fishing, hobbies, lifestyle
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noun
A group of wild boar.
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noun
A young boar.
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noun
a device for making soundings
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: device
History
From Middle English *soundere, from Old English ġesundra, from Proto-Germanic *sundizô, equivalent to sound + -er (comparative suffix).
From Middle English soundar, sownere, equivalent to sound + -er.
From French sonder.
Inherited from Middle English soundre, from Anglo-Norman soundre, Old Northern French sondre, from a Germanic language, probably Old English sunor (“herd of swine”), from Proto-West Germanic *suniʀu, plural of *sun (“swine, boar”), from Proto-Germanic *sunaz (“boar”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewH- (“to bring forth, bear, give birth”). Cognate with Dutch zeunie (“trough, drinking bowl”).
Across languages
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