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General dictionaries General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. sound: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. sound, sound, sound, sound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. sound, sound, sound, sound: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  4. sound: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. SOUND, Sound, sound: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. sound: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  7. Sound: Wiktionary [home, info]
  8. sound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  9. sound: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  10. sound: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  11. sound, the sound: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. sound (adj.), sound (n.1), sound (n.2), sound (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  13. Sound, sound: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. sound: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  15. sound, sound: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  16. Sound(album), Sound (Disambiguation), Sound (Shetland), Sound (album), Sound (geography), Sound (medical instrument), Sound (nautical), Sound (speech), Sound (water), Sound, The Sound (album), The Sound (geography), The Sound: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  17. sound: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  18. Sound: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  19. sound: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  20. sound: Rhymezone [home, info]
  21. sound: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  22. sound: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  23. Sound: Encarta® Online Encyclopedia, North American Edition [home, info]
  24. Sound, The Sound: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  25. sound: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  26. sound: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  27. sound: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  28. sound: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  29. The Sound, sound: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound: Multimedia Glossary [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. sound: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
  2. sound: Travel Industry Dictionary [home, info]
  3. SOUND: Accounting Glossary [home, info]
  4. sound: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
  5. Sound: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  6. The Sound, sound: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  7. Sound: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sound: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
  2. sound: CNET Internet Glossary [home, info]
  3. Sound (speech), The Sound, sound: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sound: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. sound: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. The Sound, sound: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Sound, sound: Idioms [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics [home, info]
  2. sound: PlanetMath Encyclopedia [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sound: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom [home, info]
  2. Sound: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook [home, info]
  3. The Sound: A Seattle Lexicon [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sound: Terra.org's Sailing Terms [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. sound: Glossary of Meteorology [home, info]
  2. SOUND: Farrier & Hoofcare [home, info]
  3. Sound: Explosives [home, info]
  4. SOUND: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]
  5. SOUND: NOISE CONTROL TERMS [home, info]
  6. Sound: Glossary of Woodworking Terms [home, info]
  7. sound: Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary [home, info]
  8. sound: Rane Professional Audio Reference [home, info]
  9. sound: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
  10. Sound: Sweetwater Music [home, info]

Quick definitions (sound)

noun:  the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause ("The sound of rain on the roof")
noun:  the subjective sensation of hearing something ("He strained to hear the faint sounds")
noun:  the sudden occurrence of an audible event ("The sound awakened them")
noun:  a large ocean inlet or deep bay ("The main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast")
noun:  mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium ("Falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them")
noun:  the audible part of a transmitted signal
noun:  a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
noun:  (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
verb:  appear in a certain way ("This sounds interesting")
verb:  give off a certain sound or sounds ("This record sounds scratchy")
verb:  make a certain noise or sound
verb:  cause to sound ("Sound the bell")
verb:  announce by means of a sound ("Sound the alarm")
verb:  measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line
verb:  utter with vibrating vocal chords
adjective:  free from moral defect ("A man of sound character")
adjective:  financially secure and safe ("Sound investments")
adjective:  in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay ("A sound timber")
adjective:  thorough ("A sound thrashing")
adjective:  having legal efficacy or force ("A sound title to the property")
adjective:  reflects weight of sound argument or evidence ("A sound argument")
adjective:  in excellent physical condition ("A sound mind in a sound body")
adjective:  (of sleep) deep and complete ("A sound sleeper")
adjective:  exercising or showing good judgment ("A sound approach to the problem")
adverb:  deeply or completely ("Slept soundly through the storm")

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