Audible
['ɔːdɪb(ə)l] or ['ɔdəbl]
Definition
(noun.) a football play is changed orally after both teams have assumed their positions at the line of scrimmage.
(adj.) heard or perceptible by the ear; 'he spoke in an audible whisper' .
Checked by Annabelle--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard; as, an audible voice or whisper.
(n.) That which may be heard.
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Definition
adj. able to be heard.—ns. Aud′ibleness Audibil′ity.—adv. Aud′ibly.—n. Aud′ience the act of hearing: a judicial hearing: admittance to a hearing: a ceremonial interview: an assembly of hearers: a court of government or justice in Spanish America also the territory administered by it—Sp. audiencia.—adj. Aud′ient listening: paying attention.—n. a hearer.
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Examples
- Dorothea set earnestly to work, bending close to her map, and uttering the names in an audible, subdued tone, which often got into a chime. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Sounds that he was not afraid of, for he divined their meaning, then began to be audible. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But he did not make any audible comment upon it,--only ordered Tom to get the horses out for a ride. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Nobody had disturbed her, no faint rustling of the silk dress had been audible, either in the ante-room or in the passage. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A perceptible shock of surprise, an audible murmur of interest ran through them, at the sight of her face. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Barclay's remarks were subdued and abrupt, so that none of them were audible to the listeners. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I hear a nightingale warbling in a wood half a mile off; no moving form is visible, no coming step audible; but that perfume increases: I must flee. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The trooping in of numbers, the trampling of many steps and murmuring of many voices, were likewise audible. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mademoiselle is hardly audible in straining through her teeth and lips the words, You are a devil. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In a few moments a splash was audible from the pond outside. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The operator puts the receiver to his ear and listens for the message, which the telephone renders audible in the Morse characters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He writhed, fumed, shifted his seat, and the beating of his heart was almost audible. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Trilling it out like a kind of bird, with a pretty high note, that it may be audible to the old lady above the hum of the wheels. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His name is Ferrars, said he, in a very audible whisper; but pray do not tell it, for it's a great secret. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
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