SOUNDS

The particular auditory effect produced by a given cause

Example: "The sound of rain on the roof"

• sound property

• noisiness  9
• racketiness
• ring  5
• unison  6
• • voice  10
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• silence  9

The subjective sensation of hearing something

Example: "He strained to hear the faint sounds"

• auditory sensation

• aesthesis  12
• esthesis  11
• sensation  9
• sense datum
• sense experience
• sense impression

• euphony  15
• music  9
• music  9
• pure tone
• • tone  4
  • dissonance  13
  • noise  5
  • racket  12
  • dub  6
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Mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium

Example: "Falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them"

• mechanical phenomenon

• ultrasound  11

The sudden occurrence of an audible event

Example: "The sound awakened them"

• happening  17
• natural event
• occurrence  16
• occurrent  13

• beat  6
• beep  8
• bleep  9
• bell  6
• • toll  4
  • bombilation  17
  • bombination  17
  • buzz  24
  • click  13
  • clink  11
  • chirp  12
  • chirrup  14
  • twitter  10
  • chorus  11
  • click-clack
  • clip-clop
  • clippety-clop
  • clop  8
  • clopping  15
  • clumping  15
  • clunking  15
  • cry  8
  • ding  6
  • drip  7
  • dripping  14
  • drum  7
  • footfall  14
  • footstep  13
  • step  6
  • gargle  8
  • gurgle  8
  • jangle  14
  • jingle  14
  • knock  15
  • knocking  19
  • murmur  10
  • murmuration  15
  • murmuring  14
  • mussitation  13
  • mutter  8
  • muttering  12
  • noise  5
  • drum roll
  • paradiddle  15
  • roll  4
  • pat  5
  • rap  5
  • tap  5
  • patter  8
  • peal  6
  • pealing  10
  • roll  4
  • rolling  8
  • ping  7
  • plunk  11
  • pop  7
  • popping  14
  • purr  6
  • quack  20
  • quaver  18
  • ring  5
  • ringing  9
  • tintinnabulation
  • drumbeat  13
  • rataplan  10
  • rub-a-dub
  • sigh  8
  • skirl  9
  • song  5
  • strum  7
  • susurration  11
  • susurrus  8
  • swish  11
  • tapping  12
  • throbbing  17
  • clump  11
  • clunk  11
  • thud  8
  • thump  12
  • thumping  16
  • thrum  10
  • thunk  12
  • tick  10
  • ticking  14
  • ting  5
  • toot  4
  • tootle  6
  • trample  11
  • trampling  14
  • twang  9
  • vibrato  12
  • voice  10
  • vroom  10
  • whack  17
  • birr  6
  • whir  10
  • whirr  11
  • whirring  15
  • whistle  13
  • whistling  16
  • zing  14
  • zizz  31
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The audible part of a transmitted signal

Example: "They always raise the audio for commercials"

• audio  6

(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

• phone  10
• speech sound

• language unit
• linguistic unit

• phoneme  14
• vowel  11
• vowel sound
• glide  7
• • semivowel  17
  • consonant  11
  • orinasal  8
  • orinasal phone
  • sonant  6
  • voiced sound
  • aspirate  10
  • ingressive  14
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A narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water

• strait  6

• channel  12

• narrow  9

A large ocean inlet or deep bay

Example: "The main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast"