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sound
English
Alternative forms
- soune, sownd, sowne (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /sa?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
Etymology 1
From Middle English sound, sund, isund, ?esund, from Old English sund, ?esund (“sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous”), from Proto-Germanic *gasundaz, *sundaz (“healthy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sunt-, *swent- (“vigorous, active, healthy”).
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”). Related also to Dutch gezwind (“fast, quick”), German geschwind (“fast, quick”), Old English sw?þ (“strong, mighty, powerful, active, severe, violent”). See swith.
Adjective
sound (comparative sounder, superlative soundest)
- Healthy.
- Complete, solid, or secure.
- (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
- Hypernym: valid
- (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
- (of sleep) Quiet and deep.
- Heavy; laid on with force.
- Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
Derived terms
Translations
Adverb
sound (comparative more sound, superlative most sound)
- Soundly.
Interjection
sound
- (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
Etymology 2
- Noun: from Middle English sownde, alteration of sowne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sun, soun, Old French son, from accusative of Latin sonus.
- Verb: from Middle English sownden, sounen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suner, sounder, Old French soner (modern sonner), from Latin son?.
- The hypercorrect -d appears in the fifteenth century.
Displaced native Middle English swei, from Old English sw??.
Noun
sound (countable and uncountable, plural sounds)
- A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
- A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. […]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
- (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc
- Noise without meaning; empty noise.
- Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:sound
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (saundo)
Translations
See also
- audible
Verb
sound (third-person singular simple present sounds, present participle sounding, simple past and past participle sounded)
- (intransitive) To produce a sound.
- (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
- (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
- (intransitive, law, often with in) 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.
- (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
- (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
Synonyms
- (to make noise): echo, reecho, resonate
- See also Thesaurus:sound
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English sound, sund, from Old English sund (“the power, capacity, or act of swimming; swimming; sea; ocean; water; sound; strait; channel”), from Proto-Germanic *sund? (“swimming; sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem- (“swimming; sea”). Cognate with Dutch sond (“sound; strait”), Danish sund (“sound; strait; channel”), Swedish sund (“sound; strait; channel”), Icelandic sund (“sound; strait; channel”). Related to swim.
Noun
sound (plural sounds)
- (geography) 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.
- The Sound of Denmarke, where ships pay toll.
- The air bladder of a fish.
- A cuttlefish.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 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.
Verb
sound (third-person singular simple present sounds, present participle sounding, simple past and past participle sounded)
- (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
- To ascertain, or 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.
- 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour
- I was in jest, / And by that offer meant to sound your breast.
- I've sounded my Numidians man by man.
- Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
- (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
Translations
Noun
sound (plural sounds)
- A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.
Translations
References
- sound at OneLook Dictionary Search
- sound in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- nodus, udons, undos
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English sound.
Noun
sound m (invariable)
- (music) sound (distinctive style and sonority)
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report
English
Etymology
From Middle English reporten, from Anglo-Norman reporter, Middle French reporter, and their source, Latin report?re (“to carry back, return, remit, refer”), from re- + port?re.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /???p??t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???p??t/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /???po?t/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /???po(?)?t/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /???po?t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Verb
report (third-person singular simple present reports, present participle reporting, simple past and past participle reported)
- (transitive, intransitive) To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something). [from 15th c.]
- (transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.). [from 15thc.]
- (obsolete, reflexive) To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal. [15th-18thc.]
- (formal, transitive) To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of. [from 15thc.]
- (transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone). [from 19thc.]
- (intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself. [from 19thc.]
- (transitive, intransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter. [from 19thc.]
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- In January, the country’s weather agency sent aircraft to release chemicals into clouds over the Yellow Sea, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.
- In January, the country’s weather agency sent aircraft to release chemicals into clouds over the Yellow Sea, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (intransitive) To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).
- Now that I've been promoted, I report to Benjamin, whom I loathe.
- (politics, dated) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
- To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
- (obsolete) To refer.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
- Baldwin, his son, […] succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almerick, and will spare the repeating his description.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, rare) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
Derived terms
- aforereported
- reporter
- underreport
- unreported
Translations
Noun
report (plural reports)
- A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject).
- Reputation.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 36:
- I love thee in such sort / As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 36:
- (firearms) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 34
- While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
- […] a pistol-shot, flash and report, came from the hedge-side.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 34
- An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.
- Synonym: subordinate
Derived terms
- (piece of information): on report, report card
- (employee): direct report, indirect report
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (rep?to), ???? (rip?to)
Translations
Further reading
- Report on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Report in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Perrot, Porter, perrot, porret, porter, pretor, proter, troper
French
Etymology
deverbal of reporter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.p??/
Noun
report m (plural reports)
- postponement
- deferment
Synonyms
- ajournement
Further reading
- “report” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- porter
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