Sound

Noun

 * 1) A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
 * 2) A vibration capable of causing this.
 * 3)  A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc
 * 4) A probe (e.g. a surgeon's tool)
 * : Long narrow inlet. (Puget Sound, Owen Sound, etc.)

Adjective

 * 1) Healthy.
 * 2) Complete, solid, or secure.
 * 3)   having the soundness property.
 * 4)  Good or a good thing.
 * 5) sound asleep; quietly resting, sleeping peacefully; undisturbed

Verb

 * 1)  To produce a sound.
 * 2)  To convey an impression by one's sound.
 * 3)  To arise or to be recognizable as arising within a particular area of law.
 * 4)  To cause to produce a sound.
 * 5)  To pronounce a vowel or a consonant.
 * 6)  dive downwards, used of a whale.

Adjectives for Sound
incongruous; obdurate; joyful; financial; explosive; ecstatic; numerous (plural); roaring; hissing; peculiar; quavering; plaintive; sprinkled; similar; lamentable; languid; unauthorized; elementary; crisp; muffled; unearthly; affrighting; thundering; lulling; empty; winged; perfidious; tinkling; imposing; ear-splitting; flat; petulant; scratching; powerful; human; horrid; answering; pulsating; puffing; monotonous; cropping; discordant; ominous; multitudinous (pi); articulate; distinct; terrible; mysterious; harmonious; faint; moaning; jarring; agreeable; perfect; blithe; thwacking; sad; romantic; weird; furtive; immortal; obnoxious; maddening; unresting; hideous; menacing; onomatopoeic; agglomerative; endearing; tuneful; stormy; incessant; plain; strange; dentilingual; obstructed; hoarse; chuckling; caressing;  murmuring; animated; understanding; munching; increasing; howling; hollow; sullen; meaningless; cruel; heterogeneous; droning; pinging; wandering; delicious; cracking; kindred; spiritual; convulsed; clattering; perpetual; humming; evil; flattering; various (plural); murderous; consecutive; rumbling; gurgling; sensuous; rattling; joyous; dubious; rushing; monosyllabic; muttering; celestial; sweet; stealthy; whizzing; soothing; slight; throaty; suggestive; melodious; eminent; confused; melancholy; healing; whistling; vague; clashing; raving; siren; repining; soft; recurrent; lambent; portentous; carefree; grunting; mirthful; false; sighing; raspy; idle; vocal; conversational; hammering; chirping; shocking; rhythmic; blissful; scientific; droll; harsh; fundamental; continuous; appalling; ghostly.

Verbs for Sound
absorb—; alter—; attune to—; carry—; communicate—; deaden—; detect—; dilute —; direct—; disguise—; echo—; elicit—; emit—; give forth—; induce—; lessen—; limit—; mellow—; muffle—; interpret—; sharpen—; smother—; transmit—; waft—; visualize—; smother—; —alarms; —babbles ; —ceases; —comforts; —dins; —echoes; —emanates; —s emerge; —falls; —s gibber; — gurgle; —lulls; —penetrates; — reawakens; —reechoes; —registers; —reverberates; —scatters; — trouble; —vanishes.

Adverbs for Sound
fortunately; wholesomely; securely; luckily; admirably; commendably; satisfactorily; unusually; magnificently; splendidly; impressively; gloriously; perfectly; remarkably; excellently; sufficiently; superbly; miraculously; peremptorily; exasperatlngly; incessantly; harshly; audibly; incredibly; importunately; celestially; mournfully; incongruously; thunderously; monotonously; discordantly; ominously; mysteriously; jarringly; thwackingly; weirdly; obnoxiously; portentously; appallingly.

Thesaurus
cogent, come out with, commendable, commonsense, communicate, complain, complete, compos mentis, compute, conservative, consistent, conventional, convey, cool, coolheaded, correct, cove, credible, creek, cry out, customary, deep, deliver, delve into, dense, dependable, dial, dig into, din, ding, dingdong, disclose, disseminate, dive, divide, dong, doodle, double-tongue, down-to-earth, drop, durable, earreach, earshot, earthy, echo, echo back, effect, elegant, emit, emit a sound, enduring, entire, enunciate, estimable, estimate, estuary, euripus, evaluate, evangelical, examine, excellent, expedient, explore, express, fail-safe, fair, faithful, faithworthy, fall, famous, fast, fathom, favorable, feel, feel out, feeler, fiducial, fife, fine, fiord, firm, firm as Gibraltar, firth, fit, fjord, fling off, flute, fly a kite, formulate, frith, full, gauge, give, give expression, give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, go into, gong, good, good for, goodly, graduate, grand, grumble, guaranteed, gulf, gut, hale, hale and hearty, harbor, hard, hardheaded, harmless, healthy, healthy-minded, hearing, heavy, helpful, honk, impart, imperturbable, impression, in equilibrium, in good condition, in good shape, indagate, infrangible, inlet, inquire of, intact, integral, investigate, invincible, invulnerable, jangle, jingle, jinglejangle, judicious, just, justifiable, kind, knell, kyle, lasting, laudable, lawful, legal, legitimate, let out, levelheaded, lip, literal, loch, logical, look, look into, look like, lucid, made of iron, make a noise, make a sound, make a sounding, massive, matter-of-fact, measure, mensurate, mentally sound, mete, meter, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, nice, noble, noise, normal, nose-dive, of sound mind, of the faith, orthodox, orthodoxical, out with, pace, parachute, peaceful, peal, peer into, perceptive, percipient, perfect, perspicacious, philosophical, phonate, phrase, pilot balloon, pipe, pitch, plausible, pleasant, plop, plumb, plumb the depths, plumb-line, plummet, plump, plunge, plunk, poke into, politic, poll, positivistic, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, pour forth, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, predictable, present, prize, probe, proclaim, profitable, promulgate, pronounce, proper, prudent, pry into, publish, put forth, put in words, quality, quantify, quantize, question, raise, random sample, range, rate, rational, reach, read, realist, realistic, reasonable, reasoning, rebound, received, reecho, regal, reliable, report, resemble, resonance, resonate, resound, responsible, return, reverberate, reverberation, right, right-minded, rigid, ring, ring changes, riskless, road, roads, roadstead, robust, roll, rosy, royal, ruddy, rugged, rumble, safe, sample, sane, sane-minded, say, scientific, scientistic, scriptural, search into, secular, secure, seem, seem like, seem to be, self-consistent, send back, sensible, set forth, shout out, shriek, sift, signal, size, size up, skillful, skin-dive, sky-dive, sling the lead, sober, sober-minded, solid, solvent, sonance, sound a knell, sound a tattoo, sound like, sound out, sound taps, sound-minded, sound-thinking, sounder, span, speak, splendid, squeal, stable, standard, staunch, steadfast, steady, step, stoop, stout, straight-thinking, strait, straits, straw vote, strong, sturdy, submerge, substantial, sufficient, sure, surefire, survey, swoop, swoop down, take a header, take a reading, take soundings, tell, test, textual, throw off, ting, tingle, tink, tinkle, tintinnabulate, together, toll, tone, tongue, toot, tootle, total, tough, traditional, traditionalistic, trial balloon, triangulate, triple-tongue, true, true-blue, trumpet, trustworthy, trusty, tweedle, unbreakable, unbroken, undamaged, undangerous, undisturbed, unfailing, unflappable, unflinching, unhazardous, unideal, unidealistic, unimpaired, unindebted, uninjured, uninterrupted, unmarred, unperilous, unprecarious, unqualified, unrisky, unromantic, unscathed, unsentimental, unshakable, untroubled, unwavering, unyielding, useful, utter, valid, valuate, value, verbalize, very good, vibration, vigorous, virtuous, vituperate, vocalize, voice, warranteed, weather vane, weathercock, weigh, weighty, well, well-argued, well-balanced, well-built, well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, whisper, whistle, whole, wholesome, wind, wind the horn, wise, without nerves, word, yell out, accepted, adamantine, admissible, advantageous, advertise, all there, announce, annunciate, appear, appear like, appraise, appreciate, approved, arm, armlet, articulate, aspect, assay, assess, astute, auditory range, auspicious, authentic, authoritative, bagpipe, balanced, barometer, bay, bayou, be reflected, be sent back, beep, bell, belt, beneficial, benevolent, bight, binding, bitch, blare, blast, blat, blooming, blow, blow a horn, blow the horn, bluster, boca, bon, bonny, boom, bounce back, braw, bray, breathe, broadcast, bueno, bugle, bulky, bunkum, cacophony, calculable, calculate, calibrate, caliper, canonical, canvass, capital, carillon, carrying distance, cast the lead, characteristic, check a parameter, check out, chime, chink, chorus, clang, clangor, clank, clarion, clearheaded, clearminded, clink,

Alternative forms

 * soune, sowne

Etymology 1
gesund:

Etymology 2

 * Noun: from sun:, soun:,  son:, from accusative of  sonus:.
 * Verb: from suner:,  soner: (modern sonner), from  sono:
 * The euphonic -d appears in the fifteenth century.

Etymology 3
sund

Etymology 4
sounden:, from sonder:, from sonde: of Germanic origin, compare O.E. sundgyrd:, sundline:, O.E. sund:. More at Etymology 3 above

Etymology 5
most likely from a slighty altered usage of Etymology 1

Synonyms

 * echo, reecho, resonate

Troponyms

 * noise
 * quiet
 * silence

Derived terms

 * empty vessels make the most sound
 * infrasound
 * instantaneous sound pressure
 * missound
 * outsound
 * second sound
 * soundage
 * sound-alike
 * sound alphabet
 * sound and light/sound-and-light show
 * sound barrier
 * sound bite/soundbite
 * sound bow
 * sound box
 * sound camera
 * sound card
 * sounded
 * sound effect
 * sound energy
 * sound engineer
 * sound engineering
 * sounder
 * soundex
 * sound film
 * sound hole
 * sounding board
 * sound law


 * soundless
 * sound like
 * sound man/soundman
 * sound off
 * sound out
 * sound pollution
 * sound pressure
 * sound projection
 * soundproof/sound-proof
 * sound recording
 * sound reproduction
 * soundscape
 * sound spectrum
 * sound stage/soundstage
 * sound structure
 * sound system
 * sound track/soundtrack
 * sound truck
 * sound wave
 * speech sound
 * speed of sound
 * surround-sound/surround sound
 * third heart sound
 * third sound
 * ultrasound
 * unsound
 * voiced sound


 * safe and sound
 * sound as a bell
 * soundly

Related terms

 * safe and sound
 * soundly

Adjective

 * Czech: zdravý
 * Danish: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ساغ, سه‌لیم


 * Norwegian: sunn,
 * Persian: تندرست
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: sănătos, nevătămat, teafăr, zdravăn
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: kry, frisk, sund
 * Turkish:


 * Czech: solidní
 * Danish: solid, sikker, pålidelig
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Hebrew: יציב
 * Hungarian: sértetlen, ,


 * Japanese: 健全な, 堅固な
 * Norwegian: stødig
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: intact, complet; solid, sigur, robust
 * Russian:, ,


 * Danish: fornuftig
 * Finnish:


 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Turkish:

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 聲音, 声音
 * Crimean Tatar: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: ljóð
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ήχος
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hljóð
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 소리
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:


 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: skaņa
 * Norwegian: lyd
 * Nynorsk: lyd, ljod
 * Old Norse:
 * Persian: آوا,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:, , ध्वन्, नाद
 * Scots: soun
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: ljud
 * Tagalog: tunog
 * Telugu: శబ్దం (Sabdam), ధ్వని (dhvani), సవ్వడి (savvaDi)
 * Thai: เสียง
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: aavaaz
 * West Frisian:


 * Albanian:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ήχος
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: hangzás
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latvian: skaņa


 * Norwegian: lyd
 * Nynorsk: lyd, ljod
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:, , ध्वन्, नाद
 * Scots: soun
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: ljud
 * Telugu: శబ్దం (Sabdam), ధ్వని (dhvani), సవ్వడి (savvaDi)
 * Urdu: aavaaz

Verb

 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian: прозвучавам (prozvučavam), издавам звук (izdavam zvuk)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: klinken, geluid maken, toon voortbrengen
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: soida, äännähtää, tuottaa ääntä, kajahtaa
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Guaraní: pu
 * Hebrew: השמיע קול
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Interlingua: sonar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 鳴る


 * Korean: 소리가 나다 (soriga nada)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ده‌نگ دان
 * Latin:
 * Persian: (seda dadan)
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: звучать (zvučát’)
 * Slovene: zveneti/zazveneti
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: మోగు (mOgu), ధ్వనించు (dhvaninchu)
 * Tupinambá: pu


 * Danish:


 * French:


 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: lade lyde
 * Finnish: soittaa, tuottaa ääntä


 * Japanese: 鳴らす
 * Korean: 소리를 내다 (sorireul naeda)
 * Telugu: మోగించు (mOginchu), ధ్వనించు (dhvaninchu)


 * Japanese: 関係する


 * Czech:


 * French:

Noun

 * Danish:
 * Finnish: lahti, vuono (fjord)
 * Greek: πορθμός
 * Irish: sunda, caolas, béal, bealach


 * Japanese: 入り江
 * Polish: cieśnina
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: estrecho

Verb

 * Danish: dykke (ned)
 * Finnish:


 * Japanese: 潜る


 * Danish: lodde, sondere, pejle
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: sonder
 * German: sondieren


 * Greek: ακροώμαι
 * Japanese:, 探る
 * Spanish: sondear


 * Danish: pejle, prøve
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * Greek: βολιδοσκοπώ
 * Japanese:

Noun

 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Sonde


 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Spanish: sonda

Noun

 * 1)   (distinctive style and sonority)

Etymology
From