| sound | |
| 1. adj. Healthy. | |
| He was safe and sound. | |
| In horse management a sound horse is one with no health problems that might affect its suitability for its intended work. | |
| 2. adj. Complete, solid, or secure. | |
| Fred assured me the floorboards were sound. | |
| 3. adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness. | |
| 4. adj. (UK, slang) Good; acceptable; decent. | |
| "How are you?" - "I'm sound.". | |
| That's a sound track you're playing. | |
| See that man over there? He's sound. You should get to know him. | |
| 5. adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply. | |
| Her sleep was sound. | |
| 6. adj. Heavy; laid on with force. | |
| a sound beating | |
| 7. adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective. | |
| a sound title to land | |
| 8. adv. Soundly. | |
| 9. interj. (UK, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm. | |
| - I found my jacket.- Sound. | |
| 10. n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium. | |
| He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him. Nobody made a sound. | |
| 11. n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations. | |
| 12. n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc | |
| 13. n. Noise without meaning; empty noise. | |
| 14. n. earshot, Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard. | |
| Stay within the sound of my voice. | |
| 15. v. (intransitive) To produce a sound. | |
| When the horn sounds, take cover. | |
| 16. v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound. | |
| He sounded good when we last spoke. | |
| That story sounds like a pack of lies! | |
| 17. v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound. | |
| 18. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound. | |
| 19. v. (intransitive, legal, often, with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law. | |
| 20. v. To cause to produce a sound. | |
| Sound the alarm! | |
| He sounds the instrument. | |
| 21. v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce. | |
| The "e" in "house" isn't sounded. | |
| 22. n. (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. | |
| Puget Sound; Owen Sound | |
| 23. n. The air bladder of a fish. | |
| Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food. | |
| 24. n. A cuttlefish. | |
| 25. v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale. | |
| The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive. | |
| 26. v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe. | |
| When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal. | |
| 27. v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device. | |
| Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope. | |
| 28. v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion. | |
| to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra | |
| 29. n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde. | |
| 30. n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra. | |
