(v. i.) To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune.
(v. i.) To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip.
(v. i.) To quarrel in words; to altercate; to wrangle.
(v. t.) To cause to sound harshly or inharmoniously; to produce discordant sounds with.
(n.) Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble.
(n.) Discordant sound; wrangling.
Example Sentences:
(1) My dear stoic father, honest as the days are long, was looking, for once in his life, thoroughly jangled, and I kept wanting to impart upon him mentally the wise words of Grandpa Abe Simpson : "They say the greatest tragedy is when a father outlives his son.
(2) However, I haven't forgotten gasping for a cigarette and being unable to have one – that vicious clawing from my chest to my throat, the jangling of nerves and shortening of temper.
(3) Our destiny is in our own hands and hopefully we won’t jangle the nerves any longer than we need to.
(4) Collars upturned, gold chains jangling, Kyrgios got his serve back and perhaps sensed a comeback to match last year’s record-breaking effort when he recovered from two sets down as a 19-year-old wildcard.
(5) They began to put more pressure on the Poles, whose nerves jangled.
(6) Grazing cows jangled their bells, farmers continued to plough the slopes, while keeping closely aware of shudders and tremors.
(7) The way that one’s listening habits are monitored and then turned into recommendations jangled his East German nerves.
(8) In other words, Ukip's success is manifested not just in byelection results and column inches devoted to the party itself, but in the sense that, with both jangled nerves and a palpable relief, the Conservatives are reverting to type.
(9) Lucy says she was marched through the hospital reception "jangling like Marley's ghost", and the officers did all the talking.
(10) Spurs jangling and lances poised, the coalition partners are off, tilting at each other for the delectation of their party conferences.
(11) At the beginning of this process, editors remove the audio recordings taken during filming and break down each scene into four sonic elements: dialogue, effects, music and Foley, which is the term for everyday sounds such as squeaky shoes or cutlery jangling in a drawer.
(12) With the scoreline at 3-2, for example, and the nerves jangling, he brought on two attack-minded players – Tomas Rosicky and Lukas Podolski – in the 83rd minute.
(13) This was yet another occasion when Arsenal's nerves jangled and there was the collective offering-up of prayers from the home seats when Wilfried Bony flexed those mighty neck muscles to thump an early header down and into the near corner of the net.
(14) Brought in at the instigation of the new chief executive, David Abraham, with the promise to refashion Channel 4 , the Big Brother-shaped hole in her schedule has set nerves jangling.
(15) I would hear the jangling of keys and think that this was the time the prison officers were going to come and open the cell door and set us free.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Australia claimed their ticket to Brazil but fans' nerves were kept jangling in a manner befitting of the Socceroos' often tortured World Cup history.
(17) 1970s: Dancing in Your Head Facebook Twitter Pinterest In the 1970s, the restless contrarian decided to unleash a whole new jangle of startling sounds – electric ones this time.
(18) The Tory leadership duly poured cold water on his suggestion, but the underlying thinking was hardly revelatory: Ukip's rise is jangling Tory nerves, and with good reason.
(19) September 9, 2015 If that message weren’t quite clear enough, the jangle-pop indie band had already posted an official collective statement on Facebook before releasing Stipe’s unfiltered opinion: While we do not authorize or condone the use of our music at this political event, and do ask that these candidates cease and desist from doing so, let us remember that there are things of greater importance at stake here.
(20) Given the way Derby County threw away promotion from a seemingly unassailable position last season, nerves may be jangling after their fourth league game without a win, a limp 3-0 home defeat to Birmingham City .
Sound
Definition:
(n.) The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
(n.) A cuttlefish.
(superl.) Whole; unbroken; unharmed; free from flaw, defect, or decay; perfect of the kind; as, sound timber; sound fruit; a sound tooth; a sound ship.
(superl.) Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; -- said of body or mind; as, a sound body; a sound constitution; a sound understanding.
(superl.) Firm; strong; safe.
(superl.) Free from error; correct; right; honest; true; faithful; orthodox; -- said of persons; as, a sound lawyer; a sound thinker.
(superl.) Founded in truth or right; supported by justice; not to be overthrown on refuted; not fallacious; as, sound argument or reasoning; a sound objection; sound doctrine; sound principles.
(superl.) heavy; laid on with force; as, a sound beating.
(superl.) Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective; as, a sound title to land.
(adv.) Soundly.
(n.) A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as, the Sound between the Baltic and the german Ocean; Long Island Sound.
(v. t.) To measure the depth of; to fathom; especially, to ascertain the depth of by means of a line and plummet.
(v. t.) Fig.: To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
(v. t.) To explore, as the bladder or urethra, with a sound; to examine with a sound; also, to examine by auscultation or percussion; as, to sound a patient.
(v. i.) To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
(n.) Any elongated instrument or probe, usually metallic, by which cavities of the body are sounded or explored, especially the bladder for stone, or the urethra for a stricture.
(n.) The peceived object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance affecting the ear; a sensation or perception of the mind received through the ear, and produced by the impulse or vibration of the air or other medium with which the ear is in contact; the effect of an impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse or vibration of the air caused by a collision of bodies, or by other means; noise; report; as, the sound of a drum; the sound of the human voice; a horrid sound; a charming sound; a sharp, high, or shrill sound.
(n.) The occasion of sound; the impulse or vibration which would occasion sound to a percipient if present with unimpaired; hence, the theory of vibrations in elastic media such cause sound; as, a treatise on sound.
(n.) Noise without signification; empty noise; noise and nothing else.
(v. i.) To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect.
(v. i.) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
(v. i.) To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as, this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an invention.
(v. t.) To causse to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn.
(v. t.) To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument.
(v. t.) To order, direct, indicate, or proclain by a sound, or sounds; to give a signal for by a certain sound; as, to sound a retreat; to sound a parley.
(v. t.) To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to be reported; to publish or proclaim; as, to sound the praises of fame of a great man or a great exploit.
(v. t.) To examine the condition of (anything) by causing the same to emit sounds and noting their character; as, to sound a piece of timber; to sound a vase; to sound the lungs of a patient.
(v. t.) To signify; to import; to denote.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(2) Here, we review the nature of the heart sound signal and the various signal-processing techniques that have been applied to PCG analysis.
(3) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(4) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(5) Respiratory alteration in the intensity of heart sounds is one of the commonest auscultatory pitfalls.
(6) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
(7) It is felt that otologic surgery should be done before the pinna reconstruction as it is very important to try and introduce sound into these children at an early age.
(8) To evaluate the relationship between the motion pattern and degree of organic change of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the features of the mitral component of the first heart sound (M1) or the opening snap (OS), 37 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) were studied by auscultation, phonocardiography and echocardiography.
(9) The talent base in the UK – not just producers and actors but camera and sound – is unparalleled, so I think creativity will continue unabated.” Lee does recognise “massive” cultural differences between the US and UK.
(10) Among the epileptic patients investigated by the stereotactic E. E. G. (Talairach) whose electrodes were introduced at or around the auditory cortex (Area 41, 42), the topography of the auditory responses by the electrical bipolar stimulation and that of the auditory evoked potential by the bilateral click sound stimulation were studied in relation to the ac--pc line (Talairach).
(11) Seconds later the camera turns away as what sounds like at least 15 gunshots are fired amid bystanders’ screams.
(12) Not making a sound for 24 hours pretty nearly killed me.
(13) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
(14) Reduced mineral absorption is fairly well documented and has sound theoretical support from basic chemistry.
(15) Endogenous sound-induced (binaural) inhibition which is suggested to be GABA-mediated is also significantly reduced in IC neurons of the GEPR.
(16) Five horses raced successfully and lowered the lifetime race records, 1 horse was sound and trained successfully, but died of colic, and 1 horse was not lame in early training.
(17) This paper reports two experiments concerned with verbal representation in the test stage of recognition memory for naturalistic sounds.
(18) Although sound pressure levels are high, they are probably reduced before reaching the cochlea of the fetus because of the surrounding amniotic fluid and the fluid in the middle ear.
(19) The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of listening experience on the perception of intraphonemic differences in the absence of specific training with the synthetic speech sounds being tested.
(20) Digital respirosonography provides an easy way to assess lung sound amplitudes, frequencies and timing over several breaths.