What's the difference between inaudible and subtonic?
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."
Subtonic
Definition:
(a.) Applied to, or distinguishing, a speech element consisting of tone, or proper vocal sound, not pure as in the vowels, but dimmed and otherwise modified by some kind of obstruction in the oral or the nasal passage, and in some cases with a mixture of breath sound; -- a term introduced by Dr. James Rush in 1833. See Guide to Pronunciation, //155, 199-202.
(n.) A subtonic sound or element; a vocal consonant, as b, d, g, n, etc.; a subvocal.
(n.) The seventh tone of the scale, or that immediately below the tonic; -- called also subsemitone.