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phonemic
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Sound Tolls
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aurally
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utterance
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sono-
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tiddly-om-pom-pom
phonic
hearing
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dream trance
aerophone
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beatboxing
low
rataplan
low-pitched
music
absolute music
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rub-a-dub
tone
stridence
cheep
instrument
transcribe
drumlike
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chiptune
peep
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string instrument
chirp
register
chirrup
musical instrument
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thunder sheet
jar
shrillness
harmonic
brush
beat out
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laryngostroboscope
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membranophone
ambient music
Sound Tolls
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clacker
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boom-boom
whistle
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noun
noun
- A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.
- Something added to fill a gap.
- A substitution.
- An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.
- A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
- A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.
- Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.
- A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.
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.
- simple past tense of beat
- To rob.
- To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To hit; to strike.
- To tread, as a path.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To arrive at a place before someone.
- To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
adj
- Ugly.
- Having impressively attractive makeup.
- Boring.
- Exhausted.
- Relating to the Beat Generation.
- Dilapidated, beat up.
noun
- A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- A beatnik.
- 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 route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- A rhythm.
- The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- A pulsation or throb.
- A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- A stroke; a blow.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- A precinct.
noun
- The tone of voice or sound in music.
- A specific blend of whisky.
- A colloquialism or idiom.
- The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
- An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
- The process of translating a gene into a protein.
- A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
- (manufacturing) The act of pressing or squeezing out.
- A particular way of phrasing an idea.
- A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
- emotional involvement or engagement in a text read aloud rendered by the voice of the reciter or the reader
noun
- An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.
- An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.
- A person who does not have the power of speech.
- A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.
- A mute swan.
- The faeces of a hawk or falcon.
adj
- Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.
- Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.
- Not having the power of speech; dumb.
- Silent; not making a sound.
verb
adj
- Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (phonetics, dated) being or relating to a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, i.e. a vowel or diphthong.
- Pertaining to tension, especially of muscles.
- In a state of continuous unremitting action.
- Restorative, curative or invigorating.
- Pertaining to or based upon the first note of a diatonic scale.
- Pertaining to the accent or stress in a word or in speech.
noun
- A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate.
- Someone or something that revitalises or reinvigorates.
- The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote.
- The triad built on the tonic note.
- Tonic water.
- Any of various carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages; soda pop.
- A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
verb
- To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
- (used to express displeasure or frustration) Damn.
- To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
- To flatulate or defecate.
- To produce an air current.
- To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
- To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
- To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
- (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
- To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- To be propelled by an air current.
- To sing.
- To blow from a gun.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- To make a sound as the result of being blown.
- To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- To cause the sudden destruction of.
- To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- To suddenly fail destructively.
- To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- To be very undesirable.
- To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- To recklessly squander.
- To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
adj
noun
- Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”)
- Cocaine.
- An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- A damaging occurrence.
- Cannabis.
- A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
- An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- A bloom, state of flowering.
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- A strong wind.
- The act of striking or hitting.
- A blowjob; fellatio.
- A display of anything brilliant or bright.
- Heroin.
- A chance to catch one's breath.
- A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
prefix
noun
- The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument.
- An annoying or stupid person, recalcitrant.
- The sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed.
- A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars.
- A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice.
- A sharp, disagreeable taste or flavor.
verb
adj
- used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency
- less than normal in degree or intensity or amount
- being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension
adj
- very low in volume
- unrefined in character
- of the most contemptible kind
- low or inferior in station or quality
- no longer sufficient
- subdued or brought low in condition or status
- filled with melancholy and despondency
adv
noun
- an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
- a low level or position or degree
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
verb
noun
- (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds)
- an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
- any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds
- musical activity (singing or whistling etc.)
- punishment for one's actions
noun
- The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
- The quality of being respectable or admirable.
- The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
- The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
- A specific pitch.
- (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
- 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.
- a gun
- The shade or quality of a colour.
- The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
- The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
- (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
- Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
- The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.).
verb
- to change the colour of
- to give a particular tone to
- to utter with an affected tone.
- to make (something) firmer
pron
noun
- any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds
- a device that requires skill for proper use
- the means whereby some act is accomplished
- a person used by another to gain an end
- (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right
- the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process
verb
verb
- To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music.
- To represent speech by phonetic symbols.
- To transfer data from one recording medium to another.
- To cause DNA to undergo transcription.
- To convert a representation of language, typically speech but also sign language, etc., to a written representation of it. The term now usually implies the conversion of speech to text by a human transcriptionist with the assistance of a computer for word processing and sometimes also for speech recognition, the process of a computer interpreting speech and converting it to text.
- To make such a conversion from live or recorded speech to text.
verb
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To create an impression.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To impress, seem or appear (to).
- To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To impinge upon.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To make and ratify.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To score a goal.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
noun
- A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- The strike plate of a door.
- A cancellation postmark.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- A puddler's stirrer.
noun
- (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments
- an official written record of names or events or transactions
- a book in which names and transactions are listed
- (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind
- an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room
- a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device
- a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill
verb
- record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
- record in a public office or in a court of law
- enroll to vote
- be aware of
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties
- show in one's face
- manipulate the registers of an organ
- send by registered mail
- enter into someone's consciousness
noun
- A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality.
- A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.
- The effect of something contradictory or discordant; a clash.
- A jar and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.
- A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck.
- A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
- An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial.
- A sense of alarm or dismay.
- A pint glass
verb
- To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement.
- To harm or injure by such action.
- To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.
- To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.
- To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly.
- To shock or surprise.
- Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.
- To preserve (food) in a jar.
adj
- of or relating to the branch of acoustics that studies the composition of musical sounds
- of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm
- of or relating to harmonics
adj
- relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body
- involving or characterized by harmony
noun
noun
- An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
- An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
- A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.
- A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
- Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.
- In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
- The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
- A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.
- A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
- An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.
- The act of brushing something.
- Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.
- The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
- A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.
verb
verb
- To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- To perceive or follow by scent.
- To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
- To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
- To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
- To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
- To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
- To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
- To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
- To travel in a way that is not straight.
- To cover or surround with something coiled about.
- To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
- To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
- To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
noun
- Flatus.
- Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)
- The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
- The ability to breathe easily.
- Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
- A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".
- The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
- One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
- Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
- Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
- A bird, the dotterel.
- A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
noun
- A technique where material is repeated with alterations to the melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, texture, counterpoint or orchestration; but with some invariant characteristic, e.g. a ground bass.
- Deviation from the mean orbit of a heavenly body.
- The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
- The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north.
- A related but distinct thing.
- A line of play that differs from the original.
- The modification of a hereditary trait.
verb
- Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound.
- To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a low-pitched rumbling sound.
- To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
- To send a user a message via the Growl software library.
- To express (something) by growling.
noun
noun
- Auxiliary audio input fed to a synthesizer etc. and used to selectively trigger an effect.
- That part of a molecule attached to some core structure; a radical.
- A separate blockchain attached to a parent blockchain (mainchain) to extend its functionalities.
- On some railways, a chain fitted on both sides of a centre coupler or buffer at each end of a rail vehicle, which has a hook for connection to a corresponding chain on the next vehicle in a train.
- Any of the variable parts of amino acids that extend from the peptide backbone in proteins; they are referred to as R-groups, which branch off the backbone at the alpha carbon (Cα).
verb
verb
- To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc.
- To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips.
- To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.
- To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
noun
- A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.
- An act of whistling.
- A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
- Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
- A suit (from whistle and flute).
- The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.
noun
- A sound made by, or resembling that made by, a musical instrument.
- Emotive stress used to increase the power of delivery in speech.
- Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.
- The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
- Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
noun
- A sound effect that may be applied to live or recorded sounds through a sound editing process, which creates the impression that the sounds originated in an enclosed space which was conducive to producing echoes or echoing.
- An environment in which a person is exposed to only those beliefs and opinions that agree with their own, so that their existing views are magnified and reinforced while alternative ideas are not expressed or considered.
- A room or other enclosed space that is highly conducive to the production of echoes, particularly one that has been designed and built for this purpose.
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