What's the difference between audible and sniff?

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.

Sniff


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.
  • (v. t.) To draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.
  • (v. t.) To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.
  • (n.) The act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is taken by sniffing; as, a sniff of air.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because of the wide range of human nasal anatomic configurations, some people sniff odorants against comparatively high resistances.
  • (2) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
  • (3) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
  • (4) When Defoe did get a sniff six minutes before half-time, capitalising on a Sylvain Distin slip, he was denied by Artur Boruc’s leg.
  • (5) His running here was unstinting and he doubled his tally with a clinical finish after a first touch too smart for Pogatetz, preening perhaps after giving Boro a sniff of reprieve.
  • (6) When there is upheaval within China’s own borders – riots, protests, vicious political power struggles – hardly a sniff of it will be found in the pages of the country’s heavily-controlled press.
  • (7) We characterized the relationship between mouth pressure (Pmo) and esophageal pressure (Pes) during sniffs performed with open, semi-occluded, and occluded nose.
  • (8) In such destructive form Ighalo needs only the slightest sniff at goal and typically his trusty sidekick, Troy Deeney, was the provider, heading down a crossfield pass from Almen Abdi.
  • (9) "Partition" test was used, in which two males of one line were placed in a common cage divided into two sections by a transparent partition with holes; this partition divided the animals but allowed them to see and sniff each other.
  • (10) The range of Pdi during maximal sniffs (82-204 cm H2O) had better defined lower limits than Pdi during PImax.
  • (11) But she railed against commercial success, and at the first sniff of a big hit – Paper Planes , which sampled the Clash's Straight To Hell, and made the US and UK top 20 – she recoiled.
  • (12) While they spurned several opportunities here, allowing tension to creep in before Tadic scored the second 17 minutes from time, their three centre-halves did not allow the Watford strikeforce of Odion Ighalo and Troy Deeney a sniff.
  • (13) To assess the relationship between sniff resistance and olfaction, ten subjects without nasal pathology or complaint were asked to estimate the perceived magnitude of the odorant, ethyl butyrate, at each of four concentrations and against each of four different resistances.
  • (14) Odors could produce spiking responses that were either nonhabituating (response to every sniff) or rapidly habituating (response to first sniff only).
  • (15) MRR was determined from 10 sniffs for Pes, Pnp, and Pmo before fatigue, and at intervals up to 10 min after fatigue.
  • (16) But in the early days of Corbyn’s charge, the readers rightly got a sniff that on occasions we weren’t taking him seriously enough.
  • (17) The toluene users were more likely to sniff only in a group setting, probably because of the long duration of intoxication.
  • (18) More than one third of the patients aspirated a solution into the middle ear with one or more sniffs by aspirating air from their middle ears, demonstrating eustachian tube patency rather than obstruction.
  • (19) Don’t sniff at any movie that makes $350m (£215m) in worldwide receipts on largely middling reviews.
  • (20) Subjects learned to inspire at two flow rates, one twice as great as the other, by adjusting (on a cathode ray tube) the transduced trace of a sniff-produced pressure change to match either of two target contours.