What's the difference between audible and inaudible?

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.

Inaudible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not audible; incapable of being heard; silent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An inaudible voice variable, known to be influenced by stress-arousal in adults, was recently discovered to differ significantly among four situationally defined types of infant vocalizations.
  • (2) "My writing is maybe so badly [inaudible] that you can't read it and I'm sorry.
  • (3) But the recordings were all but inaudible – and the judge, Mohamed Nagy, was forced to admit that he could not make out what was being said.
  • (4) First, when SOAEs were suppressed, the tinnitus was inaudible.
  • (5) Subsequently, the Independent police complaints commission said on Tuesday that Rowland, of all the officers involved in an affair that had turned "an inaudible altercation into a national scandal", had not wanted to pursue the matter further and had been content with the apology he received from Mitchell.
  • (6) Nearly 1,400 people have complained to the BBC about inaudible dialogue in drama Jamaica Inn, which lost 2 million viewers, a third of its audience, over its three-part run.
  • (7) Results revealed that ADHD children were delayed in private speech development in that they engaged in more externalized, self-fuiding and less inaudible, internalized speech than normal youngsters.
  • (8) In case 1, with inaudible prosthetic clicks, thrombosis of the cage and immobility of the ball were suggested by echocardiographic studies and confirmed at surgery.
  • (9) After they are pronounced married, Frank pulls Ready close, says something inaudible and his eyes well up.
  • (10) If supplied with a microphone, he would often speak more quietly to maintain the same level of general inaudibility.
  • (11) A woman at the back of the nave shouted something inaudible but clearly theological and angry.
  • (12) If this could be attained, the hours in a hospital on rounds or at lectures would be better spent and ultimately, the speaker, too, would derive more satisfaction from his work if he were rewarded with stimulating questions from an appreciative audience instead of the perfunctory applause of somnolent, noncomprehending colleagues, driven almost to distraction by unending cacolalia complicated by lightning speed and rank inaudibility.
  • (13) Amplitudes of inaudible "subjective" signals are inferred from tone-on-tone masking measurements.
  • (14) Her words were almost inaudible and I only pieced together the meaning once she had pulled away from me.
  • (15) This pulse-generated runoff (PGR) system generates blood flow in patent calf arteries by means of a pulsatile cuff even if the existing Doppler signal is inaudible.
  • (16) But the worst thing would be if somebody said I was inaudible.
  • (17) The cheering was inaudible in the rows of tarpaper shacks you see as you land at Mumbai airport and in myriad villages denied basic technology, such as light and safe water.
  • (18) The Tory leader's list of successes, inaudibly subtitled "don't let Labour ruin it" – the repatriation of Abu Qatada, a small i mprovement in unemployment , populist changes to benefits , a hint of a hint of a recovery – will send his backbenchers off for summer in better spirits than they have been in for a while.
  • (19) Those officers who may be responsible for turning a largely inaudible altercation lasting less than a minute into a national scandal plainly have a case to answer for gross misconduct.
  • (20) An employee at the public security bureau could be overheard telling a colleague: "This person is asking what happened in [inaudible] Square."