What's the difference between audible and heard?

Audible


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard; as, an audible voice or whisper.
  • (n.) That which may be heard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The attacks were detected by audible wheeze, augmentation of diaphragm, external intercostal and sternomastoid activity, associated with distinctive changes in thoracoabdominal motion.
  • (2) The results showed that mangabeys exhibit an audibility function nearly indistinguishable from that for blue monkeys (Brown and Waser 1984).
  • (3) The entire range of frequencies audible to the bat is systematically represented along the dorsal-ventral dimension of the columnar area.
  • (4) But organisers said that the vuvuzela, one of the most visible and certainly most audible motifs of the tournament's opening weekend, could yet be banned from inside stadiums.
  • (5) The minimum audible movement angle (MAMA) thus defined was observed to increase as the source velocity increased.
  • (6) In the 14 general surgical patients, intestinal viability and collateral mesenteric blood flows were determined, which demonstrated that the presence of audible arterial blood flow correlated with ultimate bowel viability.
  • (7) Danger signs of stridor and abnormal sleepiness were poorly recognised (sensitivity 0-50%) by the health care workers, as was audible wheeze.
  • (8) Six patients had no audible murmur; four had grade 1 to 2 innocent murmurs.
  • (9) Clinically audible murmurs were present in only two patients.
  • (10) Eighty-two patients with audible clicking were evaluated and treated with splints made by using arthrographic assistance.
  • (11) On cardiac examination, a pansystolic bruit and a diastolic rumble were audible at the tricuspid focus.
  • (12) Email from Jack Underwood: It seems like Luck audibles on every single down.
  • (13) For normal-hearing subjects, an orderly function relating the percentage of audible stimulus to recognition performance was found, with perfect discrimination performance occurring when the bulk of the stimulus spectrum was presented at suprathreshold levels.
  • (14) All three patients suffered from pain in the abdomen and back, a palpable pulsatile abdominal mass and an audible continuous harsh bruit.
  • (15) Experimental bruxism, audible, nonfunctional grinding or clenching of the teeth, was provoked in aggressive animals by drugs affecting central dopaminergic systems.
  • (16) Audible wheezing was induced in 100% of the asthmatics and in none of the nonasthmatics.
  • (17) The main structure will be delimited by 600 minarets, each shaped like an upraised middle finger, and housing a powerful amplifier: when synchronised, their combined sonic might will be capable of relaying the muezzin's call to prayer at such deafening volume, it will be clearly audible in the Afghan mountains, where thousands of terrorists are poised to celebrate by running around with scarves over their faces, firing AK-47s into the sky and yelling whatever the foreign word for "victory" is.
  • (18) In the reaction time task, saccades and arm movements were commonly triggered by the rapid, visible and audible opening of a small food-containing box which was located at a constant position in front of the animal at eye level.
  • (19) But we’re happy to see the president.” As Xi and the royals went past, activists from the Free Tibet campaign shouted slogans and waved flags, audible above the cheers of the crowd.
  • (20) Study 2 assessed the impact of a student confederate who lowered his or her observer-audible headphone volume at the polite request of a second student confederate.

Heard


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Hear
  • () imp. & p. p. of Hear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I have heard from other workers that the list has also been provided to the law enforcement authorities,” Gain says.
  • (2) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
  • (3) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
  • (4) She successfully appealed against the council’s decision to refuse planning permission, but neighbours have launched a legal challenge to be heard at the high court in June.
  • (5) Somewhat more children of both Head Start and the nursery school showed semantic mastery based on both heard and spoken identification for positions based on body-object relations (in, on, and under) than for those based on object-object relations (in fromt of, between, and in back of).
  • (6) Activists in the country are pushing to get their voices heard ahead of Sunday's race.
  • (7) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
  • (8) That’s when you heard the ‘boom’.” Teto Wilson also claimed to have witnessed the shooting, posting on Facebook on Sunday morning that he and some friends had been at the Elk lodge, outside which the shooting took place.
  • (9) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
  • (10) This is the most crucial issue of our time and the people must be heard, not criminalised."
  • (11) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
  • (12) Auditory sensory perception was operationalized as number of tones heard on audiometric examination.
  • (13) The guy upstairs, I heard he was maybe affiliated with Islamic Jihad, but he wasn't there.
  • (14) But if May rushes headlong into a panicked triggering of article 50 without a clear idea of what she wants out of negotiations, she will have left us at the mercy of 27 countries who have heard little but table-thumping and empty threats from ministers.
  • (15) In Iten, I heard stories of athletes being told weeks in advance when to attend the testing centre in Eldoret.
  • (16) When I heard it, I thought of Sherpa as a first name, like the Edmund in Edmund Hillary, rather than as a description, like the Desperate in Desperate Dan.
  • (17) The commission heard AWH charged luxury accommodation in Queensland, limousine rides and Liberal party donations to Sydney Water.
  • (18) Same-sex marriage: supreme court's swing votes hang in the balance – live Read more The court heard legal arguments for two and a half hours, in a landmark challenge to state bans on same-sex marriage that is expected to yield a decision in June.
  • (19) That’s why when I heard from a family of 11 from my Walthamstow constituency whose holiday to LA had had to be abandoned, my first thought was for their kids.
  • (20) Before the AKP came to power, nobody had heard of Turkey and our politicians.