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AUDIBLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A football play is changed orally after both teams have assumed their positions at the line of scrimmage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("audible" is a kind of...):
football play ((American football) a play by the offensive team)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Heard or perceptible by the ear
Example:
he spoke in an audible whisper
Synonyms:
audible; hearable
Classified under:
Similar:
clunky (making a clunking sound)
sonic (relating to audible sound)
sounding (making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form)
Also:
loud (characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity)
perceptible (capable of being perceived by the mind or senses)
Attribute:
audibility; audibleness (quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear)
Antonym:
inaudible (impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear)
Derivation:
audibility; audibleness (quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear)
Context examples:
The two ladies looked over it together; and he sat smiling and talking to them the whole time, in a voice a little subdued, but very audible to every body.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Mrs Musgrove was giving Mrs Croft the history of her eldest daughter's engagement, and just in that inconvenient tone of voice which was perfectly audible while it pretended to be a whisper.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
"His name is Ferrars," said he, in a very audible whisper; "but pray do not tell it, for it's a great secret."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Barclay’s remarks were subdued and abrupt, so that none of them were audible to the listeners.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her entreaty had no effect on Tom: he only said again what he had said before; and it was not merely Tom, for the requisition was now backed by Maria, and Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Yates, with an urgency which differed from his but in being more gentle or more ceremonious, and which altogether was quite overpowering to Fanny; and before she could breathe after it, Mrs. Norris completed the whole by thus addressing her in a whisper at once angry and audible—“What a piece of work here is about nothing: I am quite ashamed of you, Fanny, to make such a difficulty of obliging your cousins in a trifle of this sort—so kind as they are to you!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Small sounds carried far; domestic sounds out of the houses were clearly audible on either side of the roadway; and the rumour of the approach of any passenger preceded him by a long time.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
In vain did Elizabeth endeavour to check the rapidity of her mother's words, or persuade her to describe her felicity in a less audible whisper; for, to her inexpressible vexation, she could perceive that the chief of it was overheard by Mr. Darcy, who sat opposite to them.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It made little audible gurgles which distracted me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“Mr. Mell,” said Mr. Creakle, shaking him by the arm; and his whisper was so audible now, that Tungay felt it unnecessary to repeat his words; “you have not forgotten yourself, I hope?”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Now, look you here, Jim Hawkins, he said in a steady whisper that was no more than audible, you're within half a plank of death, and what's a long sight worse, of torture.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
