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sounds

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sounds

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Because it is a word with a single syllable, sounds is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.

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Definitions ofsounds

1noun
  • A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.

    Example: "He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him.  Nobody made a sound."

  • A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
  • A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc
  • Noise without meaning; empty noise.
  • Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.

    Example: "Stay within the sound of my voice."

1verb
  • To produce a sound.

    Example: "When the horn sounds, take cover."

  • To convey an impression by one's sound.

    Example: "He sounded good when we last spoke."

  • To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
  • To resound.
  • (often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law.
  • To cause to produce a sound.

    Example: "He sounds the instrument."

  • (of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.

    Example: "The "e" in "house" isn't sounded."

1noun
  • 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.

    Example: "Puget Sound; Owen Sound"

  • The air bladder of a fish.

    Example: "Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food."

  • A cuttlefish.
1noun
  • A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.
1noun
  • An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
1verb
  • Dive downwards, used of a whale.

    Example: "The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive."

  • To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.

    Example: "When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal."

  • Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.

    Example: "Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope."

  • To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.

    Example: "to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra"

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