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Etymology 1

Old English gesund (“‘safe", "whole", "healthy’”)

Adjective

sound (comparative sounder, superlative soundest)

Positive sound

Comparative sounder

Superlative soundest
  1. Healthy.
    He was safe and sound.
  2. Complete, solid, or secure.
    Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.
  3. (British, slang) Good or a good thing.
    "How are you?" - "I'm sound."
    That's a sound track you're playing.

Derived terms
terms derived from sound (adjective)

Translations
healthy
complete, solid, or secure
UK, slang: good or a good thing
  • Danish: fornuftig
  • Finnish: kondiksessa fi(fi)
  • Japanese: please add this translation if you can
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  • Bulgarian: здрав (zdrav) m.
  • Dutch: gezond
  • Esperanto: sana
  • French: sain
  • Guaraní: esãi (h-)
  • Hebrew: בריא ושלם (baría ve shalam)

Etymology 2

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Noun

Singular sound

Plural sounds

sound (plural sounds)

  1. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium. (He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him.)
    Nobody made a sound.
  2. A vibration capable of causing this.

Synonyms

Troponyms

Translations
sensation perceived by the ear
  • Latvian: skaņa f.
  • Polish: dźwięk pl(pl) m.
  • Russian: звук ru(ru) (zvuk) m.
  • Sanskrit: स्वर sa(sa) (svára) m., शब्द sa(sa) (śabda) m., ध्वन् sa(sa) (dhvan) m., नाद sa(sa) (nāda) m.
  • Scots: soun
  • Scottish Gaelic: fuaim gd(gd) m.
  • Spanish: son es(es) m.
  • Telugu: శబ్దం te(te) (Sabdam), ధ్వని te(te) (dhvani), సవ్వడి te(te) (savvaDi)
  • Thai: เสียง th(th)
  • Turkish: ses tr(tr)
  • Urdu: آواز aavaaz f.
vibration capable of causing this
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Verb

Infinitive to sound

Third person singular sounds

Simple past sounded

Past participle sounded

Present participle sounding

to sound (third-person singular simple present sounds, present participle sounding, simple past and past participle sounded)

  1. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
    When the horn sounds, be careful.
  2. (intransitive, copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
    He sounded good when we last spoke.
  3. (intransitive, law) To arise or to be recognizable as arising within a particular area of law.
    • 1999, Supreme Court of the United States, City of Monterey v. Del Monte Dunes at Montery, Ltd. et al.[1]:
      [T]here can be no doubt that claims brought pursuant to § 1983 sound in tort.
  4. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
    He sounds the instrument.
  5. (phonetics) To pronounce a vowel or a consonant.
    The "e" in "house" isn't sounded.

Synonyms

Derived terms
Derived terms

Translations
to produce a sound
  • Japanese: 鳴る ja(ja) (naru)
  • Korean: 소리가 나다 (soriga nada)
  • Kurdish:
    Sorani: ده‌نگ دان ku(ku) (dang dAn)
  • Persian: صدا دادن (seda dadan)
  • Portuguese: soar pt(pt)
  • Russian: звучать (zvučát’)
  • Slovene: zveneti/zazveneti
  • Spanish: sonar es(es)
  • Swahili: sauti sw(sw)
  • Swedish: ljuda sv(sv), låta sv(sv)
  • Telugu: మోగు te(te) (mOgu), ధ్వనించు te(te) (dhvaninchu)
  • Tupinambá: pu
to state or utter, especially with deliberation; to repeat
to cause to produce a sound
  • Japanese: 鳴らす ja(ja) (narasu)
  • Korean: 소리를 내다 (sorireul naeda)
  • Telugu: మోగించు te(te) (mOginchu), ధ్వనించు te(te) (dhvaninchu)
law: to arise
  • Japanese: 関係する ja(ja) (kankē suru)
to pronounce
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Etymology 3

Old English sund

Noun

Singular sound

Plural sounds

sound (plural sounds)

  1. (geography): Long narrow inlet. (Puget Sound, Owen Sound, etc.)

Translations
long narrow inlet

Etymology 4

Middle English sounden, from Old French sonder, from sonde (“‘sounding line’”) of Germanic origin, cf. O.E. sundgyrd (“‘a sounding rod’”), sundline (“‘a sounding line’”), O.E. sund (“‘water", "sea’”). More at Etymology 3 above

Verb

Infinitive to sound

Third person singular sounds

Simple past sounded

Past participle sounded

Present participle sounding

to sound (third-person singular simple present sounds, present participle sounding, simple past and past participle sounded)

  1. (intransitive): dive downwards, used of a whale.
    The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.
  2. (transitive): probe
  3. test

Translations
to dive downwards, of a whale
  • Danish: dykke (ned)
  • Finnish: sukeltaa fi(fi)
  • Japanese: 潜る ja(ja) (moguru)
to probe
  • Japanese: 調べる ja(ja) (shiraberu), 探る ja(ja) (saguru)
to test

Noun

Singular sound

Plural sounds

sound (plural sounds)

  1. A probe (e.g. a surgeon's tool)

Translations
a probe
  • French: sonde fr(fr) f.
  • Japanese: 探子 ja(ja) (tanshi)

Etymology 5

most likely from a slighty altered usage of Etymology 1

Adjective

sound (comparative sounder, superlative soundest)

Positive sound

Comparative sounder

Superlative soundest
  1. sound asleep; quietly resting, sleeping peacefully; undisturbed

Related terms

Translations
sound asleep — see sound asleep

Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

sound m. inv.

  1. sound

 

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Q. Ok well i recorded a video with my Kodak Easyshare digital camera and as some of you that have these may know, when you replay the video, there is no sound and i think i read somewhere in the manual that you have to manually put the sound into the video which i think is comepletely inconvenient so i was wondering if any of you knew how to get the sound onto the video that you record with this particular camera. Thanks.
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A. The quickest way to synchronize the Video from a separate audio recorder is, to do a Finger Countdown of 3 sec while symultaniously counting vocally. Do this before every shot. Following which, you load them to a decent video editing software, where, you can then synchronize audio and video via your audible vocal countdown and visual finger countdown. For example: say: "three - two - one - zero" while your fingers countdown from: 3 -2 -1 - 0
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