(a.) Involving surds; not capable of being expressed in rational numbers; radical; irrational; as, a surd expression or quantity; a surd number.
(a.) Uttered, as an element of speech, without tone, or proper vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated; nonvocal; atonic; whispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, //169, 179, 180.
(n.) A quantity which can not be expressed by rational numbers; thus, Ã2 is a surd.
(n.) A surd element of speech. See Surd, a., 4.
Example Sentences:
Unheard
Definition:
(a.) Not heard; not perceived by the ear; as, words unheard by those present.
(a.) Not granted an audience or a hearing; not allowed to speak; not having made a defense, or stated one's side of a question; disregarded; unheeded; as, to condem/ a man unheard.
(a.) Not known to fame; not illustrious or celebrated; obscure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two British throwers up there, it's unheard of, I'm pleased with where the sport's going."
(2) We’ve sent out all the boards and there’s still loads of people flooding in, we don’t know what to do.’ It happened in Leeds North West, too – they started the day, they had so many activists that they went: ‘Right, let’s scrap our whole strategy, we’re going to just print off the electoral register instead’ – and rather than focusing on likely Labour voters, which is what you would normally do, they knocked on all the doors on the electoral register – that’s unheard of.” The seat saw a 14% swing to Labour, overturning a Lib Dem majority of almost 3,000 and replacing it with a 4,000 Labour lead.
(3) Neurosyphilis after penicillin therapy was almost unheard of in the United States until it began to appear in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients.
(4) Dombey treads proudly towards his doom with the author's unheard warnings ringing in his ears.
(5) To ‘pass’ as black is comparatively unheard of,” Fairchild said in an email.
(6) Between them they signed a number of previously unheard-of players, some of which have proved successful – Fabricio Coloccini and Jonás Guttiérez – while others, such as Xisco, failed to impress.
(7) It is all but unheard of for a chief crown prosecutor to appear in court – particularly one as eminent as Saunders, who oversees nearly 200,000 cases a year and a budget of almost £100m.
(8) But you have also to remember that it was a group of no more than 30 people, yet it did something unheard -of - it took up a concept and followed it through in a very German-determined way.'
(9) For the young men on the trains, it was the first glimpse of a country which promised wealth and stability unheard of in the countries they had left behind.
(10) There are thousands of children every year who grow up in homes where nappies - and bedclothes - go unchanged... ...and where their cries of pain go unheard.
(11) With only five classrooms, girls are being taught side-by-side with their male counterparts – which is unheard of among such conservative communities.
(12) To limit the American physician to only one drug in this large group of drugs is unheard of.
(13) Most did not possess the eloquence of Dr King when he described riots as “the language of the unheard”.
(14) The investigation and adjudication process operates in most parts unseen and unheard,” he said.
(15) We provide a forum to enable that engagement and to amplify the voices of the unheard.
(16) In silent dying rooms, hidden away in unmentionable and unseen places, thousands gasp out their last, their wishes ignored, unheard, their suffering unrecorded as death notices pretend they "passed away peacefully".
(17) Scientific and technological development in morphological disciplines has created an creates unheard of possibilities for scientific research and practical examination of morphological changes and in its consequences has contributed also in a substantial way to a change in fundamental views on the subcellular and supramolecular structural level of the organization of living matter.
(18) The ticket and extras Anecdotal evidence suggests that prom tickets typically cost between £20 and £35 per person, though £50 or even more is not unheard of.
(19) As a result, McQueen had a practical knowledge that was unusual 20 years ago, and would be unheard of now.
(20) Such an upset would be unheard of in Spain or Germany.