(superl.) Having, making, or being a strong or great sound; noisy; striking the ear with great force; as, a loud cry; loud thunder.
(superl.) Clamorous; boisterous.
(superl.) Emphatic; impressive; urgent; as, a loud call for united effort.
(superl.) Ostentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a loud style of dress; loud colors.
(adv.) With loudness; loudly.
Example Sentences:
(1) External phonocardiography performed at the time of cardiac catheterization revealed that this loud midsystolic click disappeared whenever a catheter was positioned across the mitral valve.
(2) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
(3) This was followed by loud applause for Gündogan and De Bruyne, when each was later taken off.
(4) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
(5) Clinical measurements of the loudness discomfort level (LDL) are generally performed while the subject listens to a particular stimulus presented from an audiometer through headphones (AUD-HP).
(6) From a set of tones that varied only in intensity, it was possible to calculate the growth of loudness with intensity for the budgerigar.
(7) The footballer said the noise of the engine was too loud to hear if Cameron snored but his night "wasn't the best".
(8) To produce intramodal arousal, normal subjects also had EEG recordings made during the random sounding of a loud bell.
(9) The vocalight lights up a variable number of light-emitting diodes depending upon the loudness of sounds received at a hydrophone within the suction cup.
(10) At one point, shortly after Suárez had given them a 3-0 lead, a loud cry had gone up from the Liverpool end of "We're going to win the league".
(11) Oestrous and dioestrous rats were observed during the initial 2 min of open-field exposure, and after a loud bell had sounded.
(12) We are not doing it as loudly, we're not embracing it quite as much, but the fact of the matter is we do need a much more stimulative fiscal policy."
(13) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
(14) Voice control, a punishment technique based on loud commands, has been used widely in pediatric dentistry.
(15) Witnesses reported hearing a loud bang coming from the area, which is also close to the Belfast city centre's prime retail centre and the city's courts, hours after a security alert was declared after 9pm.
(16) In this experiment, observers were asked to match the loudness of partially masked test-tone bursts in one ear by adjusting the level of unmasked bursts presented to the other ear.
(17) But the evidence from the nation at large is loud and clear.
(18) A loudness meter that combines the spectral shapes of different sounds to produce an overall perceived magnitude offers greater promise.
(19) More important, however, context simultaneously affected the degree of loudness integration as measured in terms of matching stimulus levels.
(20) He's been speaking loudly, then realising the other customers had begun to listen in to what he was saying, he lowers it again, before continuing: – There were military planes flying low over the forest.
Loudmouth
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This, or so the knowing forecast went, would be the end of a half-diverting saga of an appealing loudmouth.
(2) Donald Trump is a loudmouth who has never spent a day in public office.
(3) Their paths to showbiz acclaim have been intricately linked, from their on-screen depiction of the loudmouthed rapping brother-sister duo Smithy and Rudi in Gavin and Stacey to their subsequent two-year relationship off-screen.
(4) It is this poverty-drenched environment in which Hussain met James Cromitie, a loudmouth Walmart worker who claimed to deal drugs and stolen goods.
(5) The rapper was replying to those who have criticised his dress sense – hip-hop loudmouths who have tried to "label" him as gay, including a recent homophobic diss by 50 Cent.
(6) Comedian and musician Tim Minchin will star in his first sitcom as a loudmouth cocktail pianist in 88 Keys for the BBC.
(7) The EU’s failure to craft a coherent response to the crisis of mass movement from Africa and the Middle East is tailor-made for Ukip loudmouths.
(8) They regard Malema as a clown, a loudmouth and a bully.
(9) I am the greatest" - Ali shouting at reporters who had dismissed him as a loudmouth and a fake before the Liston fight in 1964.
(10) In order to escape jail, Monsegur, a notorious loudmouth elite hacker who was considered a ringleader of the groups, had been covertly cooperating with the FBI to help build cases against, and track down, his former partners.
(11) Nor is my daughter, and I hope she never will be, because luckily we are all loudmouths.
(12) He was one of those loudmouthed New Yorkers with a big cigar.
(13) How do we fight the loudmouth politics of authoritarian populism?
(14) A skilled politician even then, this tall, long-haired 16-year-old – with a penchant for jeans and tweed sports jackets – managed, while attending to his official duties, to humour an argumentative cadre of awkward first-year student loudmouths whose pimpled number included me.
(15) He subsequently said he regretted his comments, saying: “People think I'm just a loudmouth, angry guy … there's more to me than that rant.” Speaking about his own experience, he said: “You've got a lot of racial backlash, and a lot of racist comments that were uncalled for – I can never see a time where racism is called for.
(16) The sensationally funny and daring cameo for Marshall McLuhan, who magically appears in a cinema queue to tell some loudmouth academic that he is wrong and Alvy is right, is an inspired and sophisticated flourish.
(17) Over at the SNY TV Network, which is partially owned by the crosstown Mets, there was a diatribe from from Chris Carlin, who co-hosts a show called Loudmouths .
(18) Once, at a showbiz party, I remember someone said, "And this is such-and-such from the Sun," and I swung round, almost with a clenched fist, expecting to meet a physical embodiment of the tabloid, a loudmouth yob with a penchant for puns.