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- Passing from subsonic to supersonic, or vice versa.
- Just below, or just above, the speed of sound (0.8 < Ma < 1.2 approximately).
- Travelling through a fluid (commonly air) at a speed where regions of supersonic and subsonic flow coexist simultaneously over different portions of the surface of the moving object in question.
- (of speed) having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level
adj
- (colloquial, of a sound) Ultrasonic, having a frequency too high to be audible.
- (of a speed) Greater than the speed of sound (in the same medium, and at the same temperature and pressure).
- (of speed) greater than the speed of sound in a given medium (especially air)
- having frequencies above those of audible sound
noun
noun
- very high frequency sound; used in ultrasonography
- using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs
- (physics) Sound with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing, which is approximately 20 kilohertz.
- (metonymic, chiefly informal) Ultrasonography.
- Medical ultrasonography.
- Therapeutically applied ultrasonic energy.
verb
noun
- the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality
- the act of projecting out from something
- a planned undertaking
- the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
- the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
- any solid convex shape that juts out from something
- a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
- the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
- any structure that branches out from a central support
- (perfumery) The distance the scent of a perfume radiates off the skin.
- (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences to one's own, including making accusations that would more fittingly apply to the accuser.
- (mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
- (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
- (cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth to be represented on a flat surface. The set of mathematics used to calculate coordinate positions.
- (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
- The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
- A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
- (linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
- The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
- (grammar) The preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle.
- (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
- Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
noun
- (slang) Clipping of subwoofer
- (colloquial) Clipping of subcontractor
- (Internet slang) Clipping of subliminal (“an audio or video recording intended to produce physical or psychological changes in the listener”)
- (informal) Clipping of substitute, often in sports or teaching.
- (BDSM, informal) Clipping of submissive
- (computing, programming) Clipping of subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does)
- (British, informal, often in plural) Clipping of subscription (“a payment made for membership of a club, etc.”).
- (publishing, colloquial) Clipping of submission (of a work for publication).
- Abbreviation of submarine.
- (colloquial) Clipping of subeditor
- (colloquial, Internet) Clipping of subscription (or (by extension) a subscriber) to an online channel or feed.
- Clipping of submarine sandwich: a sandwich made on a long bun.
- (colloquial) Clipping of subsistence money, part of a worker's wages paid before the work is finished.
- (Internet, informal) Clipping of subtitle
- (Internet slang) Clipping of subreddit.
- (nautical) Clipping of submersible.
- (Philippines, colloquial) Clipping of subject (“particular area of study”)
- a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
prep
verb
- (UK, slang, transitive) To lend (a person) money.
- (British, informal, soccer) To replace (a player) with a substitute.
- To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.
- (BDSM) To take a submissive role.
- (US, informal) To substitute for.
- (microscopy) To prepare (a slide) with a layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.
- (slang, Internet, transitive) To subtitle (usually a film or television program).
- (slang, intransitive) To subscribe.
- (British, informal, soccer, less common, often as "sub on") To bring on (a player) as a substitute.
- (US, informal) To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.
- (British) To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.
- be a substitute
verb
- sound with resonance
- be received or understood
- (figurative) To have an effect or impact; to influence; to engender support.
- To vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration.
- (figurative) To agree or sympathise, not necessarily perfectly, usually with an emotion, an attitude, or an intellectual position.
verb
- sound with resonance
- move or swing from side to side regularly
- shake, quiver, or throb; move back and forth rapidly, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- feel sudden intense sensation or emotion
- be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
- (transitive) To mark or measure by moving to and fro.
- (transitive, slang) To pleasure someone using a vibrator.
- (intransitive) To resonate.
- (intransitive) To shake with small, rapid movements to and fro.
- (transitive) To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
- (intransitive, music) To use vibrato.
- (transitive) To brandish; to swing to and fro.
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name
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name
- (computing) Initialism of Supplementary Special-purpose Plane (plane 14 of Unicode, containing 65,536 code points—U+E0000 through U+EFFFF—intended for encoding certain types of special-purpose characters but currently almost entirely unused).
- (rail transport) The station code of Sham Shui Po in Hong Kong.
- (British) Initialism of Statutory Sick Pay.
noun
- A low spectrum of sound tones.
- (music) One who sings in the bass range.
- (music) An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.
- The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.
- (music notation) The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.
- The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats.
- (music) A section of a musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.
- Fibers from other plants, especially palm trees
- Anything made from such fibers, such as a hassock, basket or thick mat.
- the lowest part in polyphonic music
- an adult male singer with the lowest voice
- the lowest adult male singing voice
- the lowest part of the musical range
- the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments
- any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)
- nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
- the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
adj
verb
noun
- a steady sound without overtones
- the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
- the quality of a person's voice
- a musical interval of two semitones
- a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
- the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
- (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages
- (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- (music) A specific pitch.
- (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
- The shade or quality of a colour.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) a gun
- (language, literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed, especially the aspects of diction (word choice), connotation, emotiveness, and register.
- (painting) The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
- (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
- The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
- The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
- (language, linguistics) The pitch of a word's sound that distinguishes a difference in meaning, as for example in Chinese.
- The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.).
- (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
- (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
- (Chiefly in the form lower/raise the tone of something) The quality of being respectable or admirable.
verb
- vary the pitch of one's speech
- give a healthy elasticity to
- utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
- change to a color image
- change the color or tone of
- (transitive) to change the colour of
- (transitive) to make (something) firmer
- (transitive) to give a particular tone to
- (transitive) to utter with an affected tone.
pron
adj
- (of speed) less than that of sound in a designated medium
- (of a sound, literary) very quiet, almost inaudible
- (fluid mechanics, of a flow) with a Mach number such that 0.3 < Ma < 0.8 (approximately - the exact limits vary between sources)
- (of a speed) (aviation) less than the speed of sound (in the same medium, and at the same temperature and pressure)
- (of a sound, scientific) having a frequency too low to be audible
noun
noun
- Initialism of advanced acoustic array.
- Initialism of airport airspace analysis.
- Initialism of Access Approval Authority.
- Initialism of astronaut-actuated abort.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of aromatic amino acid.
- Initialism of authorization accounting activity; authorized accounting activity.
- Initialism of air avenue of approach.
- Initialism of Acquisition Approval Authority.
- Initialism of allocations, assessments, and analysis.
- Initialism of angle angle angle, a geometric proof.
- Initialism of arrival and assembly area.
- Initialism of aircraft alert area.
- Initialism of authentication, authorization and accounting.
- Initialism of aerospace engineering, applied mechanics, and aviation.
- Initialism of automated airlift analysis.
- (psychology) Initialism of animal-assisted activity.
- Initialism of AEGIS acquisition agent.
- (military) Initialism of anti-aircraft artillery.
- Initialism of adaptive array antenna.
- Initialism of alternate assembly area.
- (medicine) Initialism of abdominal aortic aneurysm.
- Initialism of attitude, awareness and accountability, a ski safety program.
- Initialism of adult album alternative.
- Initialism of accumulated adjustments account, in US Federal Income Tax.
- Initialism of airborne assault area.
- Initialism of airborne array aperture.
- Initialism of administration, authorization, and authentication, in software security.
- an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta associated with old age and hypertension
name
- (US) Initialism of American Anthropological Association.
- Initialism of Agricultural Adjustment Association.
- Initialism of Access All Areas, Sony music project.
- Initialism of American Arbitration Association.
- (England) Initialism of Amateur Athletic Association of England.
- Initialism of American Airship Association.
- (US, historical, law) Initialism of Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
- Initialism of Allegheny Airlines.
- Initialism of Argentine Anticommunist Alliance.
- Initialism of Archives of American Art.
- (US, automotive) Initialism of American Automobile Association.
- (historical) Initialism of American Academy of Allergy; now the AAAAI.
- Initialism of Army Athletic Association.
- Initialism of Abortion Assistance Association.
- Initialism of ANSI Artists of America.
- Initialism of Allied Artists of America.
- (US, historical) Initialism of Actors and Artistes of America; now the AAAA or 4As.
- Initialism of Association of Accounting Administrators.
- Initialism of American Accounting Association.
- Initialism of Appraisers Association of America.
- Initialism of Agricultural Aviation Association.
- Initialism of Armenian Assembly of America.
- Initialism of American Association for Anatomy.
- Initialism of All American Aviation.
- Initialism of American Academy of Advertising.
- Initialism of American Abstract Artists.
- Initialism of American Accordionists' Association.
- Initialism of American Astronomers Association.
- Initialism of Associated Agents of America.
- Initialism of American Academy of Actuaries.
- Initialism of American Australian Association.
- Initialism of American Ambulance Association.
- Initialism of American Antarctic Association.
- (US, historical, law) Initialism of Agricultural Adjustment Act.
- (Australia, automotive) Initialism of Australian Automobile Association.
- Initialism of Association of Average Adjusters.
- Initialism of Antique Airplane Association.
- Initialism of Area-Agency on Aging.
- (UK, art, historical) Initialism of Allied Artists Association.
phrase
symbol
- A very narrow shoe size.
- (sports, Canada, US) The highest level of minor league baseball, often used by extension in other sports to indicate the highest level of minor league play in that sport as well.
- (video games) high-quality video game expected to sell well, typically with a large development budget.
- (finance) The highest credit rating given by debt analysis agencies such as Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and A.M. Best.
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adj
noun
- speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords
- a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
- The sound of whispers;
- Something that is whispered; gossip; a rumor.
- (occult) The projection of intention and influence caused by sending thoughts or desires outward through softly-spoken words or subtle mental or energetic means.
verb
adj
- Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
- (geometry, specifically, of an angle) Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.
- (now chiefly botany, zoology) Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
- (geometry, by ellipsis) Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.
- (botany, zoology) Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
- Indirect or circuitous.
- Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
- of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees
- lacking in insight or discernment
- (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
verb
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
adj
noun
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
noun
noun
- (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
- (video games) A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
- (Wikimedia jargon) A notification.
- (networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
- A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- (text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
- (networking) Latency.
- a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)
verb
- (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
- (colloquial) To flick.
- To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- (Australia, colloquial) To penalize.
- (colloquial, sports, transitive) To cause something to bounce.
- (ambitransitive, LGBTQ, slang) To trigger a person's gaydar; to look or act obviously homosexual.
- (by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To bounce.
- (networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
- (colloquial, sports) To call out audibly.
- hit with a pinging noise
- contact, usually in order to remind of something
- sound like a car engine that is firing too early
- send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active
- make a short high-pitched sound
prefix
adj
- (of sound) lacking resonance or volume
- very narrow
- not dense
- of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
- lacking spirit or sincere effort
- relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
- lacking substance or significance
- lacking excess flesh
- (aviation) Of a route: relatively little used.
- Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
- (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
- Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
- Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
- Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
- Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
- Poor; scanty; without money or success.
- Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
- Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
adv
verb
- make thin or thinner
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- lose thickness; become thin or thinner
- take off weight
- To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
- To dilute.
- (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
- (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
noun
noun
- (aviation) Ellipsis of sonic boom.
- The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
- (economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of boom microphone (a microphone supported on such a pole).
- (sailing) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
- (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi-Uda antenna, on which the other, smaller antennae are transversally mounted.
- A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
- One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
- A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
- (gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus, similar to a balance beam, which must be traversed as part of an obstacle course, typically as a training exercise in school or as part of basic training for new military recruits.
- A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
- A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
- (computer chess, slang) An instance of booming.
- A specially-designed, movable pole, used to suspend a microphone or camera high above the ground during filming or recording.
- A rapid expansion or increase.
- a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set
- a state of economic prosperity
- a deep prolonged loud noise
- a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
- any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring
intj
verb
- (transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
- (of a Eurasian bittern) To make a deep, resonant, territorial vocalisation.
- (of a vehicle) To rush forwards with such violent intensity that it generates a sustained, overwhelming, roaring noise; especially from the perspective of a bystander who has been suddenly subjected to it.
- To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
- (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.
- To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
- (computer chess, slang) To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
- (intransitive) To cause a sonic boom.
- (transitive, slang) To subject (someone or something) to a sonic boom.
- (transitive) To make (something) boom.
- (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
- grow vigorously
- hit with great force
- make a deep hollow sound
- be the case that thunder is being heard
- make a resonant sound, like artillery
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verb
verb
- (sound engineering, intransitive) (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
- (imaging, intransitive) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- To join or fit together; to unite.
- (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
- (photography, intransitive) To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- (sound engineering, transitive) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
- (intransitive) (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
- (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
- wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- express a totally negative opinion of
- make a sweeping movement
adj
noun
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
- (music) Ellipsis of steelpan.
- (rail transport, informal) Clipping of pantograph.
- A part; a portion.
- A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
- A bedpan.
- (South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- (firearms) The part of a matchlock, flintlock, or wheellock firearm that holds the priming.
- (figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
- (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
- (especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
- (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- (slang) A human face, a mug.
- (chiefly Ireland) A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
- (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
- A leaf of gold or silver.
- The contents of such a receptacle.
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- Alternative form of paan.
- (geology) Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
- Strong adverse criticism.
- cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- shallow container made of metal
noun
- having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
- a vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system
- an excited state of a stable particle causing a sharp maximum in the probability of absorption of electromagnetic radiation
- the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities
- a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people
- (sociology) A quality of human relationship with the world.
- (figuratively) Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion; something that strikes a chord.
- (medicine) The sound produced by a hollow body part such as the chest cavity upon auscultation, especially that produced while the patient is speaking.
- (countable) A resonant sound, echo, or reverberation, such as that produced by blowing over the top of a bottle.
- (physics) The increase in the amplitude of an oscillation of a system under the influence of a periodic force whose frequency is close to that of the system's natural frequency.
- (chemistry) The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons.
- (uncountable) The quality of being resonant.
- (electronics) The condition where the inductive and capacitive reactances have equal magnitude.
- An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.
- (astronomy) An influence of the gravitational forces of one orbiting object on the orbit of another, causing periodic perturbations.
- (nuclear physics) A short-lived subatomic particle or state of atomic excitation that results from the collision of atomic particles.
noun
noun
- very high frequency sound; used in ultrasonography
- using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs
- (physics) Sound with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing, which is approximately 20 kilohertz.
- (metonymic, chiefly informal) Ultrasonography.
- Medical ultrasonography.
- Therapeutically applied ultrasonic energy.
verb
noun
- the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality
- the act of projecting out from something
- a planned undertaking
- the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
- the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
- any solid convex shape that juts out from something
- a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
- the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
- any structure that branches out from a central support
- (perfumery) The distance the scent of a perfume radiates off the skin.
- (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences to one's own, including making accusations that would more fittingly apply to the accuser.
- (mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
- (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
- (cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth to be represented on a flat surface. The set of mathematics used to calculate coordinate positions.
- (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
- The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
- A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
- (linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
- The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
- (grammar) The preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle.
- (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
- Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
noun
- (slang) Clipping of subwoofer
- (colloquial) Clipping of subcontractor
- (Internet slang) Clipping of subliminal (“an audio or video recording intended to produce physical or psychological changes in the listener”)
- (informal) Clipping of substitute, often in sports or teaching.
- (BDSM, informal) Clipping of submissive
- (computing, programming) Clipping of subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does)
- (British, informal, often in plural) Clipping of subscription (“a payment made for membership of a club, etc.”).
- (publishing, colloquial) Clipping of submission (of a work for publication).
- Abbreviation of submarine.
- (colloquial) Clipping of subeditor
- (colloquial, Internet) Clipping of subscription (or (by extension) a subscriber) to an online channel or feed.
- Clipping of submarine sandwich: a sandwich made on a long bun.
- (colloquial) Clipping of subsistence money, part of a worker's wages paid before the work is finished.
- (Internet, informal) Clipping of subtitle
- (Internet slang) Clipping of subreddit.
- (nautical) Clipping of submersible.
- (Philippines, colloquial) Clipping of subject (“particular area of study”)
- a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
prep
verb
- (UK, slang, transitive) To lend (a person) money.
- (British, informal, soccer) To replace (a player) with a substitute.
- To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.
- (BDSM) To take a submissive role.
- (US, informal) To substitute for.
- (microscopy) To prepare (a slide) with a layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.
- (slang, Internet, transitive) To subtitle (usually a film or television program).
- (slang, intransitive) To subscribe.
- (British, informal, soccer, less common, often as "sub on") To bring on (a player) as a substitute.
- (US, informal) To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.
- (British) To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.
- be a substitute
noun
name
noun
name
- (computing) Initialism of Supplementary Special-purpose Plane (plane 14 of Unicode, containing 65,536 code points—U+E0000 through U+EFFFF—intended for encoding certain types of special-purpose characters but currently almost entirely unused).
- (rail transport) The station code of Sham Shui Po in Hong Kong.
- (British) Initialism of Statutory Sick Pay.
noun
- A low spectrum of sound tones.
- (music) One who sings in the bass range.
- (music) An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.
- The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.
- (music notation) The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.
- The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats.
- (music) A section of a musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.
- Fibers from other plants, especially palm trees
- Anything made from such fibers, such as a hassock, basket or thick mat.
- the lowest part in polyphonic music
- an adult male singer with the lowest voice
- the lowest adult male singing voice
- the lowest part of the musical range
- the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments
- any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)
- nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
- the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
adj
verb
noun
- a steady sound without overtones
- the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
- the quality of a person's voice
- a musical interval of two semitones
- a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
- the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
- (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages
- (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- (music) A specific pitch.
- (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
- The shade or quality of a colour.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) a gun
- (language, literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed, especially the aspects of diction (word choice), connotation, emotiveness, and register.
- (painting) The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
- (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
- The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
- The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
- (language, linguistics) The pitch of a word's sound that distinguishes a difference in meaning, as for example in Chinese.
- The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.).
- (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
- (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
- (Chiefly in the form lower/raise the tone of something) The quality of being respectable or admirable.
verb
- vary the pitch of one's speech
- give a healthy elasticity to
- utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
- change to a color image
- change the color or tone of
- (transitive) to change the colour of
- (transitive) to make (something) firmer
- (transitive) to give a particular tone to
- (transitive) to utter with an affected tone.
pron
noun
- Initialism of advanced acoustic array.
- Initialism of airport airspace analysis.
- Initialism of Access Approval Authority.
- Initialism of astronaut-actuated abort.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of aromatic amino acid.
- Initialism of authorization accounting activity; authorized accounting activity.
- Initialism of air avenue of approach.
- Initialism of Acquisition Approval Authority.
- Initialism of allocations, assessments, and analysis.
- Initialism of angle angle angle, a geometric proof.
- Initialism of arrival and assembly area.
- Initialism of aircraft alert area.
- Initialism of authentication, authorization and accounting.
- Initialism of aerospace engineering, applied mechanics, and aviation.
- Initialism of automated airlift analysis.
- (psychology) Initialism of animal-assisted activity.
- Initialism of AEGIS acquisition agent.
- (military) Initialism of anti-aircraft artillery.
- Initialism of adaptive array antenna.
- Initialism of alternate assembly area.
- (medicine) Initialism of abdominal aortic aneurysm.
- Initialism of attitude, awareness and accountability, a ski safety program.
- Initialism of adult album alternative.
- Initialism of accumulated adjustments account, in US Federal Income Tax.
- Initialism of airborne assault area.
- Initialism of airborne array aperture.
- Initialism of administration, authorization, and authentication, in software security.
- an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta associated with old age and hypertension
name
- (US) Initialism of American Anthropological Association.
- Initialism of Agricultural Adjustment Association.
- Initialism of Access All Areas, Sony music project.
- Initialism of American Arbitration Association.
- (England) Initialism of Amateur Athletic Association of England.
- Initialism of American Airship Association.
- (US, historical, law) Initialism of Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
- Initialism of Allegheny Airlines.
- Initialism of Argentine Anticommunist Alliance.
- Initialism of Archives of American Art.
- (US, automotive) Initialism of American Automobile Association.
- (historical) Initialism of American Academy of Allergy; now the AAAAI.
- Initialism of Army Athletic Association.
- Initialism of Abortion Assistance Association.
- Initialism of ANSI Artists of America.
- Initialism of Allied Artists of America.
- (US, historical) Initialism of Actors and Artistes of America; now the AAAA or 4As.
- Initialism of Association of Accounting Administrators.
- Initialism of American Accounting Association.
- Initialism of Appraisers Association of America.
- Initialism of Agricultural Aviation Association.
- Initialism of Armenian Assembly of America.
- Initialism of American Association for Anatomy.
- Initialism of All American Aviation.
- Initialism of American Academy of Advertising.
- Initialism of American Abstract Artists.
- Initialism of American Accordionists' Association.
- Initialism of American Astronomers Association.
- Initialism of Associated Agents of America.
- Initialism of American Academy of Actuaries.
- Initialism of American Australian Association.
- Initialism of American Ambulance Association.
- Initialism of American Antarctic Association.
- (US, historical, law) Initialism of Agricultural Adjustment Act.
- (Australia, automotive) Initialism of Australian Automobile Association.
- Initialism of Association of Average Adjusters.
- Initialism of Antique Airplane Association.
- Initialism of Area-Agency on Aging.
- (UK, art, historical) Initialism of Allied Artists Association.
phrase
symbol
- A very narrow shoe size.
- (sports, Canada, US) The highest level of minor league baseball, often used by extension in other sports to indicate the highest level of minor league play in that sport as well.
- (video games) high-quality video game expected to sell well, typically with a large development budget.
- (finance) The highest credit rating given by debt analysis agencies such as Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and A.M. Best.
noun
noun
- (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
- (video games) A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
- (Wikimedia jargon) A notification.
- (networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
- A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- (text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
- (networking) Latency.
- a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)
verb
- (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
- (colloquial) To flick.
- To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- (Australia, colloquial) To penalize.
- (colloquial, sports, transitive) To cause something to bounce.
- (ambitransitive, LGBTQ, slang) To trigger a person's gaydar; to look or act obviously homosexual.
- (by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To bounce.
- (networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
- (colloquial, sports) To call out audibly.
- hit with a pinging noise
- contact, usually in order to remind of something
- sound like a car engine that is firing too early
- send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active
- make a short high-pitched sound
noun
- (aviation) Ellipsis of sonic boom.
- The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
- (economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of boom microphone (a microphone supported on such a pole).
- (sailing) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
- (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi-Uda antenna, on which the other, smaller antennae are transversally mounted.
- A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
- One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
- A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
- (gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus, similar to a balance beam, which must be traversed as part of an obstacle course, typically as a training exercise in school or as part of basic training for new military recruits.
- A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
- A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
- (computer chess, slang) An instance of booming.
- A specially-designed, movable pole, used to suspend a microphone or camera high above the ground during filming or recording.
- A rapid expansion or increase.
- a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set
- a state of economic prosperity
- a deep prolonged loud noise
- a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
- any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring
intj
verb
- (transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
- (of a Eurasian bittern) To make a deep, resonant, territorial vocalisation.
- (of a vehicle) To rush forwards with such violent intensity that it generates a sustained, overwhelming, roaring noise; especially from the perspective of a bystander who has been suddenly subjected to it.
- To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
- (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.
- To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
- (computer chess, slang) To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
- (intransitive) To cause a sonic boom.
- (transitive, slang) To subject (someone or something) to a sonic boom.
- (transitive) To make (something) boom.
- (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
- grow vigorously
- hit with great force
- make a deep hollow sound
- be the case that thunder is being heard
- make a resonant sound, like artillery
noun
verb
noun
- having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
- a vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system
- an excited state of a stable particle causing a sharp maximum in the probability of absorption of electromagnetic radiation
- the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities
- a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people
- (sociology) A quality of human relationship with the world.
- (figuratively) Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion; something that strikes a chord.
- (medicine) The sound produced by a hollow body part such as the chest cavity upon auscultation, especially that produced while the patient is speaking.
- (countable) A resonant sound, echo, or reverberation, such as that produced by blowing over the top of a bottle.
- (physics) The increase in the amplitude of an oscillation of a system under the influence of a periodic force whose frequency is close to that of the system's natural frequency.
- (chemistry) The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons.
- (uncountable) The quality of being resonant.
- (electronics) The condition where the inductive and capacitive reactances have equal magnitude.
- An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.
- (astronomy) An influence of the gravitational forces of one orbiting object on the orbit of another, causing periodic perturbations.
- (nuclear physics) A short-lived subatomic particle or state of atomic excitation that results from the collision of atomic particles.
verb
- sound with resonance
- be received or understood
- (figurative) To have an effect or impact; to influence; to engender support.
- To vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration.
- (figurative) To agree or sympathise, not necessarily perfectly, usually with an emotion, an attitude, or an intellectual position.
verb
- sound with resonance
- move or swing from side to side regularly
- shake, quiver, or throb; move back and forth rapidly, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- feel sudden intense sensation or emotion
- be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
- (transitive) To mark or measure by moving to and fro.
- (transitive, slang) To pleasure someone using a vibrator.
- (intransitive) To resonate.
- (intransitive) To shake with small, rapid movements to and fro.
- (transitive) To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
- (intransitive, music) To use vibrato.
- (transitive) To brandish; to swing to and fro.
adj
noun
verb
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
adj
noun
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
verb
- (sound engineering, intransitive) (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
- (imaging, intransitive) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- To join or fit together; to unite.
- (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
- (photography, intransitive) To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- (sound engineering, transitive) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
- (intransitive) (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
- (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
- wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- express a totally negative opinion of
- make a sweeping movement
adj
noun
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
- (music) Ellipsis of steelpan.
- (rail transport, informal) Clipping of pantograph.
- A part; a portion.
- A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
- A bedpan.
- (South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- (firearms) The part of a matchlock, flintlock, or wheellock firearm that holds the priming.
- (figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
- (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
- (especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
- (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- (slang) A human face, a mug.
- (chiefly Ireland) A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
- (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
- A leaf of gold or silver.
- The contents of such a receptacle.
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- Alternative form of paan.
- (geology) Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
- Strong adverse criticism.
- cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- shallow container made of metal
adj
adj
- Passing from subsonic to supersonic, or vice versa.
- Just below, or just above, the speed of sound (0.8 < Ma < 1.2 approximately).
- Travelling through a fluid (commonly air) at a speed where regions of supersonic and subsonic flow coexist simultaneously over different portions of the surface of the moving object in question.
- (of speed) having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level
adj
- (colloquial, of a sound) Ultrasonic, having a frequency too high to be audible.
- (of a speed) Greater than the speed of sound (in the same medium, and at the same temperature and pressure).
- (of speed) greater than the speed of sound in a given medium (especially air)
- having frequencies above those of audible sound
noun
adj
- (of speed) less than that of sound in a designated medium
- (of a sound, literary) very quiet, almost inaudible
- (fluid mechanics, of a flow) with a Mach number such that 0.3 < Ma < 0.8 (approximately - the exact limits vary between sources)
- (of a speed) (aviation) less than the speed of sound (in the same medium, and at the same temperature and pressure)
- (of a sound, scientific) having a frequency too low to be audible
noun
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
- speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords
- a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
- The sound of whispers;
- Something that is whispered; gossip; a rumor.
- (occult) The projection of intention and influence caused by sending thoughts or desires outward through softly-spoken words or subtle mental or energetic means.
verb
adj
- Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
- (geometry, specifically, of an angle) Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.
- (now chiefly botany, zoology) Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
- (geometry, by ellipsis) Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.
- (botany, zoology) Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
- Indirect or circuitous.
- Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
- of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees
- lacking in insight or discernment
- (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
adj
- (of sound) lacking resonance or volume
- very narrow
- not dense
- of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
- lacking spirit or sincere effort
- relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
- lacking substance or significance
- lacking excess flesh
- (aviation) Of a route: relatively little used.
- Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
- (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
- Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
- Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
- Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
- Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
- Poor; scanty; without money or success.
- Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
- Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
adv
verb
- make thin or thinner
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- lose thickness; become thin or thinner
- take off weight
- To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
- To dilute.
- (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
- (transitive) To make thin or thinner.