What's the difference between inaudibility and silence?
Inaudibility
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being inaudible; inaudibleness.
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."
Silence
Definition:
(n.) The state of being silent; entire absence of sound or noise; absolute stillness.
(n.) Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness.
(n.) Secrecy; as, these things were transacted in silence.
(n.) The cessation of rage, agitation, or tumilt; calmness; quiest; as, the elements were reduced to silence.
(n.) Absence of mention; oblivion.
(interj.) Be silent; -- used elliptically for let there be silence, or keep silence.
(v. t.) To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.
(v. t.) To put to rest; to quiet.
(v. t.) To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel.
(v. t.) To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
(2) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(3) So much of England possesses this grace and silence.
(4) Generally, more distant neurones (500-1300 microns) were excited for variable periods of time (3-15 min), while neurones in the vicinity of the injection site (0-500 microns) showed, after a brief period of excitation time, a long-lasting (up to 30 min) decrease in excitability or silencing of discharge, probably due to a depolarizing block and disturbances in the ionic composition of the extracellular space.
(5) Cameron has already announced there will be one minute’s silence on Friday at noon, a week after the start of the killing.
(6) In addition, he describes a type of transference interpretation that is better not made, and emphasizes the transference value of silence on the part of the analyst at certain crucial moments in the analysis.
(7) According to his blog, he's been acting on the advice of a friend and pursuing a course of "silence, exile and cunning", but I'm not sure a couple of years of not giving interviews to Heat qualifies.
(8) Transient ischemic electrical silence with Q waves in the absence of MI is a rare phenomenon and affects the anterior leads much more commonly than the inferior leads.
(9) But Clegg also says he is not going to be cowed into taking Cameron's vow of silence about Farage's assertion that he finds Britain unrecognisable and is uncomfortable at the lack of English spoken on commuter trains out of Charing Cross.
(10) The site's manifesto proclaims that "the goal … is to break down the wall of omertà and silence that protects the mafia … We call on all citizens: 'if you know something, say something'".
(11) That led to the second breakthrough, as the once formidable laws of omerta - silence punishable by death - cracked.
(12) 1:109-124, 1983) suggested that the insertion might have been selected to silence a disadvantageous bglR+ allele.
(13) He criticised attempts to create “safe spaces” by silencing controversial speakers such as Germaine Greer, who was recently targeted by students at the University of Cardiff for her position on transgender women.
(14) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
(15) They were tested both in silence and against a background of continuous spoken Arabic presented at 75 dB(A).
(16) Our data indicate that these elements exert their effect irrespective of orientation and position, suggesting that they are silencers.
(17) The silence about Ji's fate was broken by his former boss, Nanjing party secretary Yang Weize.
(18) • The News of the World was ordered to hand over details of the secret agreement which it struck with Gordon Taylor in the earlier case as well agreements it has made withMulcaire which are alleged to have bought his silence.
(19) But the case is widely seen as a means of silencing the man who has become Putin's loudest critic.
(20) In the silence, I heard a car reversing in the courtyard and then the Þrst slow notes of the call to prayer.