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AUDIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does audible mean? 

AUDIBLE (noun)
  The noun AUDIBLE has 1 sense:

1. a football play is changed orally after both teams have assumed their positions at the line of scrimmageplay

  Familiarity information: AUDIBLE used as a noun is very rare.


AUDIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective AUDIBLE has 1 sense:

1. heard or perceptible by the earplay

  Familiarity information: AUDIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AUDIBLE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A football play is changed orally after both teams have assumed their positions at the line of scrimmage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("audible" is a kind of...):

football play ((American football) a play by the offensive team)


AUDIBLE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Heard or perceptible by the ear

Synonyms:

audible; hearable

Context example:

he spoke in an audible whisper

Similar:

clunky (making a clunking sound)

sonic (relating to audible sound)

sounding (making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form)

Also:

loud (characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity)

perceptible (capable of being perceived by the mind or senses)

Attribute:

audibility; audibleness (quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear)

Antonym:

inaudible (impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear)

Derivation:

audibility; audibleness (quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear)


 Context examples 


Johnson’s breath, suddenly expelled, shot from his mouth and as suddenly checked, with the forced, audible expiration of a man wielding an axe.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Miss Murdstone confirmed this with an audible murmur.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Only the last words of the worship were audible.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Through the door came a low, anxious whine, like a sobbing under the breath that had just grown audible.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Then suddenly another sound became audible—a very gentle, soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping continually from a kettle.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Listening with a device, such as a stethoscope, to anatomical locations that produce audible sounds like the heart, lungs and abdomen.

(Auscultation, NCI Thesaurus)

And just the same whistle that had alarmed my mother and myself over the dead captain's money was once more clearly audible through the night, but this time twice repeated.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The laughter died away, when a well-known and abhorred voice, apparently close to my ear, addressed me in an audible whisper, I am satisfied, miserable wretch!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

If the hip is dislocated, it will relocate with an audible clunk, which is a positive result for this test.

(Ortolani Maneuver, NCI Thesaurus)

"What a haughty, uninteresting creature that oldest Miss March is!" was the unfortunately audible remark of one of the ladies, as the door closed upon their guests.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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