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SOUND
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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© Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information)
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SOUND. 1. In technical terms, vibrations that travel through the air at some 1,087 feet (331 metres) per second at sea level and are heard through their stimulation of organs in the ear.
2. A particular effect of such vibrations;
the sound of bells;
a speech sound.
3. In
PHONETICS, the audible result of an utterance:
the b-sound in ‘big’. Although the nouns
sound and
noise can often be used interchangeably (
What was that sound/noise?),
sound usually relates to regular and harmonious vibrations,
noise to irregular and discordant vibrations. See
SPEECH,
TONE,
VOICE.
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Sound.
Magazine article from: Science Weekly; 4/26/2002; 700+ words
; ...highness or lowness of a sound is also called pitch. Animal Sounds Some animals can hear...Problem Animals can make sounds that are too high or...The crocodile's sound range is almost the...s. * The shrew's sounds are completely in the...
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SOUNDS OF NATURE CREATE BEAUTIFUL MELODIES AT N.C. MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/27/2007; 700+ words
; ...metal reeds to "feel" sound. Visitors can sit back, relax and listen to sounds from around the world in the Power of Sound and Music Theater. Investigate...humans, are affected by sound and movement. There...nose and throat, animal sounds and more. "Wild Music...
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Designing Sounds for Science Fiction.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Extrapolation; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Designing Sounds for Science Fiction. William Whittington. Sound Design and Science Fiction...2007. 280pp. $22.95 pbk. * Sound Design and Science Fiction is...the development of the field of sound design in the contemporary cinema...
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SOUNDS LIKE SUCCESS: CAWOOD
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/24/2008; 700+ words
; ...Hears a Who! As assistant sound designer for the movie Enchanted...worked with a team to create sounds not heard in the real world...winner and the director of sound design at Skywalker Sound, on the creation of new sounds for the various creatures...
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 "Sun Journal (New Bern, NC)")
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Sounds determine when spring arrives.
Newspaper article from: Sun Journal (New Bern, NC); 3/24/2006; 700+ words
; ...lawn, particular sounds are undeniable evidence...rod. One certain sound of spring is the...lineage. Probably no sound is dearer to the...the world. Other sounds of spring are just...tends to carry the sounds that accompany it...just listen. The sound of an oar bumping...
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Sounds of a happy existence
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 5/17/2001; ; 601 words
; ...Pranava-Pranayama and the sound of "om" (or "aum"). This sound encompasses all sounds. It is the highest vibration...while thinking all three sounds (aaa, ooo, and mmm...three sections with the sound of "aaa" in the abdomen...
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 "Weekend Saturday (NPR)")
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Sounds Around the Home
Transcript from: Weekend Saturday (NPR); 4/25/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...sounds from your room, sounds from your household. Do you want to hear the signature sound from my house? SIMON: Yeah...it could be a signature sound, the sound of your place. It could be the sounds of the street. It could...
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 "Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)")
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Sounds like a good job.
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); 9/10/2009; 700+ words
; What does a career as a live sound engineer involve? As a sound engineer, you would control the sound in live events such as theatre performances and music concerts. You would operate microphones, amplifiers and control desks to balance the...
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Sounds of Captive Rockfishes
Magazine article from: Copeia; 9/3/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...recorder or Edirol UA-S sound card and Ishmael software...respectively). Three distinct sounds were recorded in tanks...recordings should yield sounds similar to the sounds that can be expected from the fish in the wild. Sound production in fishes...
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Sounds of the season: learning to pay attention to the sounds around us. (acoustic ecology)
Magazine article from: Science News; 12/21/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...immersed in a sea of sounds, their ears buffeted...They also seek sound-in the enjoyment...much attention to sound," he remarks...the quality of the sounds that come out of...with environmental sounds. "There are a lot of people working in sound that involves the...
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sound
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...performer or of the sound produced by a particular...musical instrument: the sound of the Beatles. ∎ ( sounds ) inf. music, esp. popular music: sounds of the sixties...v. [ intr. ] emit sound: a loud buzzer sounded...
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Sound
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...the reflection of sounds. —anacamptic...approximate similarity in sound. bombilation Rare...crepitation a crackling sound. diacoustics Rare. the science of sounds refracted through...quality or pitch of sound or voice. phonology...the study of speech sounds, from either or...
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Sound Transmission in the Ocean
Book article from: Water:Science and Issues
Sound Transmission in the Ocean The speed of sound depends on the medium through which sound waves propagate. The speed of sound differs in air and water, with sound waves traveling faster in water. For example, in air at a temperature of 18...
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heart sounds
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...which means that the sounds produced there, by the...louder and precede the sounds produced from the equivalent...valves). The first heart sound is produced by closure...The second heart sound is produced by closure...experience, the two sounds can be distinguished...
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sounds of the body
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...for the two principal cardiac sounds. The study of pathological...understanding of the physics of sound and by an unduly slavish allegiance to the idea that particular sounds were the characteristic signatures...appreciated that an abnormal sound signifies not necessarily a...
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