Term: sound
sound (noun) /saʊnd/: something that you hear.
translations: skaņa, troksnis
examples: I love the sound of the ocean in the morning. Please turn down the sound on the television; it is too loud.”
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sound (verb) /saʊnd/: to seem or give a specific impression when you hear or read something; also, to make a noise or to ring an alarm.
translations: izklausīties, likties (pēc dzirdētā/ lasītā); atskanēt
examples: That sounds like a great idea! Let’s do it. The siren will sound if there is an emergency in the building.
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sound (adjective): (of an argument or reasoning) logically valid and based on true premises. If an argument is “sound,” it means the reasoning is flawless and the facts it relies on are accurate.
synonyms: logical, valid, robust, cogent, reliable, well-founded.
pronunciation: /saʊnd/
translation: pamatots, loģisks, uzticams
example: While her conclusion was surprising, her sound arguments made it impossible for the board to disagree with her.
Example of a Sound Argument:
- Premise 1: All humans are mortal. (True)
- Premise 2: Socrates is a human. (True)
- Conclusion: Therefore, Socrates is mortal. (Logically follows)
- Result: This argument is Sound.
Other Uses of “Sound”
Outside of logic, “sound” implies stability and health:
- Sound advice: Good, practical advice you can trust.
- Safe and sound: To be completely safe and uninjured.
- A sound sleeper: Someone who sleeps deeply and isn’t easily woken.
- Financially sound: A company or person with a healthy bank balance and no dangerous debts.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
sound (adjective)1.
a) free from injury or disease
b) free from flaw, defect, or decay
2.
- solid firm , also - stable
3.
a) free from error, fallacy, or misapprehension - sound reasoning
b) exhibiting or based on thorough knowledge and experience - sound scholarship
c) legally valid - a sound title
d) logically valid and having true premises
e) agreeing with accepted views - orthodox
4.
a) - thorough
b) deep and undisturbed - a sound sleep
c) - hard severe a sound whipping
5.
showing good judgment or sense - sound advice healthy, valid
to the full extent - thoroughly sound asleep
1.
a) a particular auditory impression - tone
b) the sensation perceived by the sense of hearing
c) mechanical radiant energy that is transmitted by longitudinal pressure waves in a material medium (as air) and is the objective cause of hearing
2.
a) a speech sound - a peculiar r-sound
b) value in terms of speech - sounds -cher of teacher and -ture of creature have the same sound
3.
archaic - rumor fame
4.
a) meaningless noise
b) obsolete - meaning
c) the impression conveyed - import
5.
hearing distance - earshot within sound of your voice
6.
recorded auditory material
7.
a particular musical style characteristic of an individual, a group, or an area - the Nashville sound
transitive verb
1.
a) to cause to sound - sound a trumpet
b) - pronounce
2.
to put into words - voice
3.
a) to make known - proclaim
b) to order, signal, or indicate by a sound - sound the alarm
4.
to examine by causing to emit - sounds sound the lungs
5.
intransitive verb
chiefly British to convey the impression of sound like - that sounds a logical use of resources Economist
1.
a) to make a sound
b) - resound
c) to give a summons by sound - the bugle sounds to battle
2.
to make or convey an impression especially when heard - it sounds good to me you sound just like your mother
1.
a) a long broad inlet of the ocean generally parallel to the coast
b) a long passage of water connecting two larger bodies (as a sea with the ocean) or separating a mainland and an island
2.
the air bladder of a fish
transitive verb
1.
to measure the depth of - fathom
2.
to try to find out the views or intentions of - probe often used with out
3.
intransitive verb
to explore or examine (a body cavity) with a sound
1.
a) to ascertain the depth of water especially with a line - sounding
b) to look into or investigate the possibility - sent commissioners … to sound for peace Thomas Jefferson
2.
to dive down suddenly - used of a fish or whale
an elongated instrument for exploring or body cavities - sounding
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
sound (noun)range of hearing
SYNONYMS:
hail, hearing, soundRELATED WORDS:
volume; distance, sight1.
to continue or be repeated in a series of reflected sound waves
SYNONYMS:
echo, reecho, resonate, resound, soundRELATED WORDS:
ring, rollNEAR ANTONYMS:
damp, dampen, deaden, dull, quiet2.
to give the impression of being
SYNONYMS:
act, appear, come across (as), come off (as), feel, look, make, soundRELATED WORDS:
dissemble, pretend; recall, resemble, suggest; hint, imply, insinuate3.
to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion)
SYNONYMS:
air, expound, give, look, raise, sound, state, vent, ventilate, voiceRELATED WORDS:
advertise, announce, declare, enounce, enunciate, proclaim, say; broadcast, circulate, disseminate, publish; describe, write, write up; sound off, speak out, speak up; chime in; communicate, convey, put across, put over; offer, submitNEAR ANTONYMS:
censor, restrain, restrict4.
to make known openly or publicly
SYNONYMS:
advertise, annunciate, blare, blaze, blazon, broadcast, declare, enunciate, flash, give out, herald, placard, post, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, release, sound, trumpetRELATED WORDS:
bark, call (off out), cry; bill, billboard, bulletin, gazette []; knell, ring, toll; blurb, feature, pitch, plug, promote, puff; disseminate, spread; disclose, divulge, introduce, kithe [], manifest, report, reveal, show; advise, apprise, hand down, inform, notify; communicate, impart, intimateNEAR ANTONYMS:
conceal, hush (up), silence, suppress, withhold; recall, recant, retract, revokea narrow body of water between two land masses
SYNONYMS:
narrows, neck, sound, straitRELATED WORDS:
arm, bay, gulf, inlet; roads, roadstead; reach, stretch1.
to measure the depth of (as a body of water) typically with a weighted line
SYNONYMS:
fathom, plumbRELATED WORDS:
gauge ( gage), scale, span; remeasure, replumb2.
to cast oneself head first into deep water
SYNONYMS:
pitch, plunge, soundRELATED WORDS:
dip, immerse, submerge; belly flop, plump, plunk ( plonk)NEAR ANTONYMS:
surface1.
according to the rules of logic
SYNONYMS:
analytic ( analytical), coherent, consequent, good, rational, reasonable, sensible, sound, valid, well-founded, well-groundedRELATED WORDS:
a posteriori, a priori, syllogistic; cognitive, empirical ( empiric); defendable, defensible, justifiable, maintainable, supportable, sustainable, tenableNEAR ANTONYMS:
casuistic ( casuistical), eristic ( eristical), fallacious, misleading, sophistic ( sophistical), specious; unarticulated; unscientific; absurd, cockeyed, crazy, daffy, fatuous, half-baked, half-witted, harebrained, insane, loony ( looney), mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, simpleminded, stupid, weak-minded, witless; senseless, thoughtless; uncompelling, unconvincing2.
enjoying health and vigor
SYNONYMS:
able-bodied, bouncing, fit, hale, hearty, robust, sound, well, well-conditioned, whole, wholesomeRELATED WORDS:
hard, hardy, iron, lusty, rugged, stalwart, strong, sturdy, tough; ambulatory, nondisabled, uncrippled; active, agile, chipper, lively, sprightful, sprightly, spry, vigorous, vital; blooming, clean-cut, flourishing, flush, prospering, thriving; all right, good, rightNEAR ANTONYMS:
decrepit, enfeebled, feeble, infirm, run-down, sickened, sickly, weak, weakened, weakly, worn-out; challenged, crippled, debilitated, differently abled, disabled, halt, incapacitated, lame; delicate, fragile, frail; emaciated, gaunt, haggard, malnourished, undernourished; afflicted, troubled; bad, poorly3.
marked by the ability to withstand stress without structural damage or distortion
SYNONYMS:
bombproof, fast, firm, sound, stalwart, strong, sturdyRELATED WORDS:
dependable, durable, reliable; infrangible, irrefragable, unbreakable; beefy, solid; cohesive, toughNEAR ANTONYMS:
infirm, insecure, weak; shaky, tottering, tottery, unbalanced, wobbly ( wabbly); unsubstantial