sound

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv. 感叹词 intj.
/ˈsaʊ̯nd/|[ˈsaʊ̯nd]    /ˈsaʊ̯nd/|[ˈsaʊ̯nd]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.
    — Most mild cases respond very nicely to such relatively simple office procedures as dilatations with sounds of increasing calibre, followed by the instillation of an ounce of 5 per cent argyrol in the bladder.
  2. A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.
    — Puget Sound; Owen Sound; Long Island Sound
  3. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium. countable,uncountable
    — He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him.  Nobody made a sound.
  4. The air bladder of a fish.
    — Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
  5. A vibration capable of causing such sensations. countable,uncountable
    — In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.
  6. A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc. countable,uncountable
    — He looks like he's got it, maybe. Listen to those kids!/There's no maybe about it. That's it, that's the sound.
  7. Noise without meaning; empty noise. countable,uncountable
    — For let us conſider this Prepoſition as to its meaning, (for it is the ſence, and not ſound, that is and muſt be the Principle or common Notion) […]
  8. Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard. countable,uncountable
    — Stay within the sound of my voice.
  9. A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. Of a whale, to dive downwards. intransitive
    — The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.
  2. To produce a sound. intransitive
    — When the horn sounds, take cover.
  3. To ascertain, or to try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
    — When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.
  4. To convey an impression by one's sound. copulative
    — He sounded good when we last spoke.
  5. To fathom or test; to ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
    — Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.
  6. To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound. intransitive
    — For from you ſounded out the worde of the Lord, not in Macedonia & in Achaia onely: but your faith alſo which is towarde God, ſpred abroade in all quarters, that we nede not to ſpeake any thing.
  7. To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
    — to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra
  8. To resound. intransitive,obsolete
  9. To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy. intransitive,often
    — In my opinion this claim sounds in damages rather than in an injunction.
  10. To cause to produce a sound. transitive
    — Sound the alarm!
  11. To pronounce. transitive
    — The "e" in "house" isn't sounded.
形容词 adj.
  1. Healthy.
    — He was safe and sound.
  2. Complete, solid, or secure.
    — Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.
  3. Having the property of soundness.
    — With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
  4. Good; acceptable; decent. Ireland,UK,slang
    — How are you? —I'm sound.
  5. Quiet and deep.
    — Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, and often deeply.
  6. Heavy; laid on with force.
    — a sound beating
  7. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
    — a sound title to land
副词 adv.
  1. Soundly.
    — So ſound he ſlept, that nought mought him awake.
感叹词 intj.
  1. Yes; used to show agreement or understanding. Ireland,UK,slang
    — I found my jacket. — Sound.

词形变化

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词汇关系

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词源

词源 1
From Middle English sound, sund, isund, ȝesund, from Old English sund (“sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous”), from Proto-West Germanic *sund, from Proto-Germanic *sundaz (“healthy”), merged with synonymous Old English ġesund, from Proto-West Germanic *gasund.
Cognate with Scots sound, soun (“healthy, sound”), Saterland Frisian suund, gesuund (“healthy”), West Frisian sûn (“healthy”), Dutch gezond (“healthy, sound”), Low German sund, gesund (“healthy”), German gesund (“healthy, sound”), Danish sund (“healthy”), Swedish sund (“sound, healthy”). Possibly related also to Dutch gezwind (“fast, quick”), German geschwind (“fast, quick”), Old English swīþ (“strong, mighty, powerful, active, severe, violent”). See swith.
词源 2
* Noun: from Middle English sownde, alteration of soun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sun, soun, Old French son, from accusative of Latin sonus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- (“to sound, resound”).
* Verb: from Middle English sownden, sounen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suner, sounder, Old French soner (modern sonner), from Latin sonō.
* The hypercorrect -d appears in the fifteenth century. (Compare dialectal drownd, gownd for the same development.)
Displaced native Middle English swei, from Old English swēġ, from Proto-Germanic *swōgiz.
词源 3
From Middle English sound, sund (“body of water; swimming; air bladder of a fish”), from Old English sund (“the power, capacity, or act of swimming; swimming; sea; ocean; water; sound; strait; channel”), Old Norse sund (“channel, inlet, strait”), from Proto-Germanic *sundą (“swimming; sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem- (“swimming; sea”).
Cognate with Dutch zond (“sound; strait”), Danish sund (“sound; strait; channel”), Swedish sund (“sound; strait; channel”), Icelandic sund (“sound; strait; channel”), German Sund. Related to swim.
词源 4
From Middle English sounden, from Old French sonder, from sonde (“sounding line”) of Germanic origin, compare Old English sundgyrd (“a sounding rod”), sundline (“a sounding line”), Old English sund (“water, sea”). More at Etymology 3 above.
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