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sounder
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sa?nd?(?)/
- Rhymes: -a?nd?(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English *soundere, from Old English ?esundra, from Proto-Germanic *sundizĂ´, equivalent to sound +? -er (comparative suffix).
Adjective
sounder
- comparative form of sound: more sound
Etymology 2
From Middle English soundar, sownere, equivalent to sound +? -er.
Noun
sounder (plural sounders)
- Something, or someone who makes a sound.
- An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
- (medicine, dated, plural only) A stethoscope.
Derived terms
- depth sounder
- echo sounder
- telegraph sounder
Translations
Etymology 3
From French sonder
Noun
sounder (plural sounders)
- (nautical) A device for making soundings at sea.
- (nautical) A person who takes soundings.
- (fishing) A fishfinder.
Etymology 4
Old English sunor
Noun
sounder (plural sounders)
- A group of wild boar.
- A young boar.
Anagrams
- Oresund, enduros, resound, undoers, unsored
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siren
English
Alternative forms
- sirene (dated or archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English siren, from Old French sereine and Latin S?r?n, S?r?na, from Ancient Greek ?????? (Seir?n). The mammalian sense was first attested in French in Dominique Bouhours, Les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugène, in 1671. The aquatic salamander sense was originally introduced by Linnaeus in 1766, for a genus of his reptiles.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sa????n/
- (US) IPA(key): /?sa???n/
- Rhymes: -a??r?n, -a?r?n
Noun
siren (plural sirens or sirenes)
- (Greek mythology) One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks.
- One who sings sweetly and charms.
- A dangerously seductive woman.
- (biology) A member of an order of mammals of Sirenia.
- (biology) A member of a genus of aquatic salamanders of the family Sirenidae, commonly used for all species subsumed under the family of Sirenidae.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Hestina.
- A device, either mechanical or electronic, that makes a piercingly loud sound as an alarm or signal, or the sound from such a device (first recorded 1879).
- 1984, Steve Harris, "Aces High", Iron Maiden, Powerslave.
- 1984, Steve Harris, "Aces High", Iron Maiden, Powerslave.
- (music) A musical instrument, one of the few aerophones in the percussion section of the symphony orchestra (patented as Acme Siren in 1895).
- An instrument for demonstrating the laws of beats and combination tones.
- (astronomy, astrophysics) An astrophysical event that can be used for calculating cosmic distances.
Synonyms
- (one who sings sweetly and charms): crooner
- (dangerously seductive woman): See Thesaurus:vamp
- (device for making a sound alarm): klaxon
Derived terms
- siren song
- siren suit
- sirenian
- sirenic
Translations
Verb
siren (third-person singular simple present sirens, present participle sirening, simple past and past participle sirened)
- To make a noise with, or as if with, a siren.
Adjective
siren
- Relating to or like a siren.
- Synonyms: bewitching, enchanting, enticing, sirenic
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Anagrams
- ESRIN, Isner, Rines, Siner, reins, resin, rines, rinse, risen, serin
Serbo-Croatian
Participle
siren (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- masculine singular passive past participle of siriti
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