(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.
Unsound
Definition:
(a.) Not sound; not whole; not solid; defective; infirm; diseased.
Example Sentences:
(1) One official wrote: "An article like this would be a heaven-sent opportunity to those who wish to get maximum publicity out of this incident to argue that the coroner was biased and for this reason the inquest was unsound."
(2) They compare dose estimates calculated by planning programs to actual doses measured in phantoms, so they cannot distinguish programming errors from measurement errors or physical unsoundness of the beam model.
(3) More lambs died and more lamb deaths were due to starvation in a group with unsound udders than in a sound udder group.
(4) This position depends on two crucial arguments that we believe are unsound: first, that gestures "are synchronized with linguistic units in speech" and, second, that gestures "have semantic and pragmatic functions that parallel those of speech."
(5) He favoured ambitious, but often unsound, development projects, and schemes to relocate millions of landless peasants and open up virgin forests paved the way for the country's current environmental crisis.
(6) It was made methodologically unsound by its employment for the naming of Nissl stained soma classes before the identity of individual somas with the physiological entities can be demonstrated.
(7) The front and hind feet from a total of 64 boars, 86 sows and 107 barrows were radiographed after necropsy to study the nature of inequalities in digits and their relation to nutrition and structural unsoundness in swine.
(8) Of the seven horses with category 2 lesions, four were training or racing, two were unsound, and one was still convalescing at the time of follow-up.
(9) JP Morgan has agreed to pay about $920m in penalties to US and UK regulators over the "unsafe and unsound practices" that led to its $6.2bn London Whale losses last year.
(10) Structured interviews conducted with 162 community-residing older adults assessed social control (direct attempts by other to influence participants' health practices and the existence of significant role obligations to others), health risk taking (medication misuse, alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, and the overall level of unsound health practices), psychological functioning (depression, loneliness, and self-esteem), and interpersonal satisfaction (satisfaction with friends and family members).
(11) A total of 1,234 ewe lambs, representing nine breed groups, were first exposed to breeding at 7 mo of age and subsequently retained with no artificial culling, except for debilitating unsoundness, through 7 yr of production.
(12) Judge Roger Thomas QC described Hutton, arguably mentally unsound, as "wicked".
(13) A New Declaration of Independence were arguing that "monopoly capitalism is morally ugly as well as economically unsound," that in America "the large majority should be able – in accordance with the tenets of the 'American dream' … to count on living in an atmosphere of equality, in a world which puts relatively few barriers between man and man."
(14) This study revealed that certain (otherwise common and nutritionally unsound) food choices were not a major part of the subjects' habits, and could be given low priority in educational messages.
(15) The basic premise of the "psychological" explanation, that Elizabeth was physically capable of bearing children is unsound for a number of reasons.
(16) If we can make it environmentally friendly, if we can make it affordable and if we can make it safe, then in time your children and my grandchildren will all have the chance to go to space.” To critics who argue that firing rockets to take sightseers up into the darkness is environmentally unsound and unnecessary, Branson says that the passengers on his first space flights will account for an amount of carbon “not dissimilar to an upper-class seat flying from London to New York and back”, and that over the next few years they believe they can make the flights “as near as dammit carbon neutral”.
(17) is theoretically unsound, as the CPK appearance function may be significantly different from zero and yet CPK vs time may still be monoexponential.
(18) The conventional separation of modes of spread as haematogenous and lymphatic seems artificial and physiologically unsound, as tumour cells tend to recycle from one system to another.
(19) Although screening elderly people for thyroid disease is economically unsound, the physician should maintain a high index of suspicion of its presence.
(20) Surgical correction of the flexible acquired flatfoot has long been subject to procedures based on an unsound understanding of the true pathomechanics of the deformity.