(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.
Squally
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather.
(a.) Interrupted by unproductive spots; -- said of a flied of turnips or grain.
(a.) Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty; -- said of cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) We made use of a laboratory paradigm which was devised to closely represent a common man-machine system process, i.e, maintaining of a road vehicle on a predetermined track when squally wind is blowing from the flank.
(2) By the time the final whistle was due on City's 2-0 win, the rain had abated, leaving squally clouds hovering above fans chanting: "We're Manchester City and we fight to the end."
(3) These are likely to be most frequent across south and west Scotland, north-west England and North Wales and will be accompanied by squally winds along with hail and thunder.
(4) This was such a scrappy, squally game it was obvious the first goal or moment of skill might settle it and so it proved, even though the breakthrough took 80 minutes to arrive.
(5) MacColl said: “Northern and western areas will probably see some thunder and hail and also snow across the hills.” He warned the weather was likely to be squally with strong winds and advised people to keep up to date with the latest forecasts.
(6) The direct sulfonation technique is not intended to identify specific DNA sequences; DNA-DNA hybridization with sulfonated probes has previously been described (P. Lebacq, D. Squalli, M. Duchenne, P. Poulety, and M. Johannes (1988) J. Biochem.