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Index — Chapter Words Relating to Matter (Part 11 of 24)

    (Adjectives). Fetid, strong-smelling, smelly, malodorous, noisome, offensive, rank, rancid, reasty, mouldy, fusty, musty, stuffy, frowsty, foul, frowzy, olid, nidorous, stinking, rotten, putrescent, putrid, putrefying, mephitic, empyreumatic.

    5. Sound

    1 SOUND IN GENERAL

  • Sound (Substantives), noise, strain, voice 580, accent, twang, intonation, resonance; sonority, sonorousness, audibleness, audibility.
  • Science of Sound: Acoustics, Phonics, Phonetics, Phonology, Diacoustics.

    (Verbs). To produce sound; to sound, make a noise, give out or emit sound, to resound.

    (Adjectives). Sonorous, sounding, sonorific, sonoriferous, resonant, canorous, audible.

  • Silence (Substantives), stillness, quiet, peace, calm, hush, lull; muteness 581.
  • A silencer, mute, damper, sordine.

    (Verbs). To be silent, etc.

    (Phrases). To keep silence; to hold one's tongue; to hold one's peace.

    To render silent, to silence, still, hush, stifle, muffle, muzzle, mute, damp, gag.

    (Adjectives). Silent, still, noiseless, soundless, inaudible, hushed, etc., mute, mum, solemn, awful, deathlike.

    (Phrases). Still as a mouse; deathlike silence; silent as the grave.

    (Adverbs). Silently, softly, etc., sub silentio.

    (Interjections). Hush! silence! soft! mum! whist! chut! tut!

  • Loudness (Substantives), din, clangour, clang, roar, uproar, racket, hubbub, flourish of trumpets, tucket, tantara, taratantara, fanfare, blare, alarum, tintamarre, peal, swell, blast, echo, fracas, clamour, hullaballoo, chorus, hue and cry, shout, yell, whoop, charivari, shivaree, vociferation; lungs, Stentor, Boanerges.
  • Speaking-trumpet, megaphone, loud - speaker; microphone, resonator.

    Artillery, cannon, thunder.

    (Verbs). To be loud, etc., to resound, echo, re-echo, peal, swell, clang, boom, blare, thunder, fulminate, roar, whoop, shout, s'égosiller, deafen, stun 411.

    (Phrases). To din in the ear; to pierce, split, or rend the ears, or head; to shout, or thunder at the pitch of one's breath, or at the top of one's voice; faire le diable à quatre.

    (Adjectives). Loud, resounding, etc., high-sounding, big-sounding, deep, full, swelling, clamorous, blatant, plangent, vocal, vociferous, stunning, piercing, splitting, rending, deafening, ear-deafening, ear-piercing, obstreperous, blaring, deep-mouthed, open-mouthed, trumpet-tongued, uproarious, stentorian; in full cry.

    (Phrase). Enough to split the head or ears.

    (Adverbs). Loudly, aloud, etc., forte, fortissimo.

    (Phrases). At the top of one's voice; in full cry.

  • Faintness (Substantives), lowness, faint sounds, whisper, undertone, breath, underbreath, murmur, mutter, hum, susurration.