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sound adj 1 *healthy, wholesome, robust, hale, well

Analogous words: *vigorous, lusty, nervous, energetic, strenuous: *strong, sturdy, stalwart, stout: intact, whole, entire, *perfect

2 *valid, cogent, convincing, compelling, telling

Analogous words: *impeccable, flawless, faultless, errorless: *correct, exact, precise, accurate: *rational, reasonable

Antonyms: fallacious

sound n Sound, noise both mean a sensation or effect produced by the stimulation of the auditory receptors of the ear and the auditory centers of the brain.

Sound is the general term applicable to anything that is heard regardless of its loudness or softness, its pleasantness or unpleasantness, or its meaningfulness or meaninglessness

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he waited a good half hour after the last sounds of the departing enemy came down the wind— Mason

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it is impossible, words being what they are, to read the sound without reading the sense at the same time— Mac— Leish

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heard a sound, rather shrill and tentative, swell into hoarse, high clamor, and suddenly die out— Galsworthy

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Approximates a laugh formed by . . . squeezing guttural sounds out of the throat— Pynchon

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Noise basically applies to confused sounds emanating from many persons and usually suggests a clamor made by mingled outcries or shouts; in more general use, it may apply to a disagreeably loud or harsh sound, whatever its source

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the terrific noise of an explosion

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a noise like that from just one stringy throat must be an impossibility, and yet, there it was— Theodore Sturgeon

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dense jungle, restless with the shrill noise of wild life— Shipton

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he could not endure the noise of the machine shop

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the hell of distracting noises made by the carts, the cabs, the carriages— Mallock

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Although the connotations of unpleas-antness and discordance typically distinguish noise from sound, noise may sometimes be applied to a sound that merely engages the attention

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still the sails made on a pleasant noise till noon, a noise like of a hidden brook— Coleridge

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the wetted earth gave out a cool delicious fragrance; there was a noise of birds— Huxley

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Antonyms: silence

sound n *strait, channel, passage, narrows

sound vb *fathom, plumb