Usually means: Vibrations transmitted through an elastic medium.
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We found 65 dictionaries that define the word sound:

General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. sound: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Sound, sound, sound, sound, sound, sound: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sound, sound, sound, sound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sound, the Sound: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sound: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sound, sound: Wordnik
  7. sound: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Sound, sound: Wiktionary
  9. sound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sound: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sound: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sound, the sound: Dictionary.com
  13. sound (adj.), sound (n.1), sound (n.2), sound (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sound: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sound (British TV series), Sound (Dreadzone album), Sound (James song), Sound (Roscoe Mitchell album), Sound (disambiguation), Sound (geography), Sound (medical instrument), Sound (nautical), Sound (sex toy), Sound (song), Sound (water), Sound, The Sound (John M. Perkins' Blues), The Sound (Mary Mary album), The Sound (New Zealand), The Sound (TV series), The Sound (band), The Sound (disambiguation), The Sound (film), The Sound (radio), The Sound (radio station), The Sound (song), The Sound: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sound: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sound: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sound: Rhymezone
  19. sound: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sound: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sound: Free Dictionary
  22. sound: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sound: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. The Sound, sound: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound: Multimedia Glossary

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. sound: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. SOUND: Accounting Glossary
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. The Sound, sound: Legal dictionary
  7. Sound: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sound: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Sound (speech), The Sound, sound: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. The Sound, sound: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Sound, sound: Idioms

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

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. sound, sound, sound: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sound: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Sound: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. The Sound: A Seattle Lexicon
  5. The Sound: Urban Dictionary

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  3. Explosives (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. SOUND: NOISE CONTROL TERMS
  6. Glossary of Woodworking Terms (No longer online)
  7. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  9. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  10. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See sounded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Healthy.
adjective:  Complete, solid, or secure.
adjective:  (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
adjective:  (British, Ireland, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
adjective:  (of sleep) Quiet and deep.
adjective:  Heavy; laid on with force.
adjective:  Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
adverb:  Soundly.
noun:  A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
noun:  A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
noun:  (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
noun:  Noise without meaning; empty noise.
noun:  Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.
noun:  (phonetics) A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound.
verb:  (intransitive) To produce a sound.
verb:  (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
verb:  (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
verb:  (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
verb:  (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
noun:  (geography) 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.
noun:  The air bladder of a fish.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a whale, to dive downwards.
verb:  To ascertain, or to try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
verb:  To fathom or test; to ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
verb:  (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
noun:  (medicine) A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.
noun:  The strait that separates Zealand (an island of Denmark) from Scania (part of Sweden); also sometimes called by the Danish name, Øresund.
noun:  Synonym of Plymouth Sound, Devon, England.

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