sound adj
1: financially secure and safe; "sound investments"; "a sound economy" [ant: unsound]
2: exercising or showing good judgment; "healthy scepticism"; "a healthy fear of rattlesnakes"; "the healthy attitude of French laws"; "healthy relations between labor and management"; "an intelligent solution"; "a sound approach to the problem"; "sound advice"; "no sound explanation for his decision" [syn: healthy, intelligent, levelheaded]
3: in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay; "a sound timber"; "the wall is sound"; "a sound foundation" [ant: unsound]
4: in excellent physical condition; "good teeth"; "I still have one good leg"; "a sound mind in a sound body" [syn: good]
5: reflects weight of sound argument or evidence; "a sound argument" [syn: reasoned, well-grounded]
6: having legal efficacy or force; "a sound title to the property" [syn: legal]
7: free from moral defect; "a man of sound character"
8: (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep" [syn: heavy, profound, wakeless]
9: thorough; "a sound thrashing" (noun)
1: the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause; "the sound of rain on the roof"; "the beautiful sound of music" [ant: silence]
2: the subjective sensation of hearing something; "he strained to hear the faint sounds" [syn: auditory sensation]
3: mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium; "falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them"
4: the sudden occurrence of an audible event; "the sound awakened them"
5: the audible part of a transmitted signal; "they always raise the audio for commercials" [syn: audio]
6: (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language [syn: phone, speech sound]
7: a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water [syn: strait]
8: a large ocean inlet or deep bay; "the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast" adv : deeply or completely; "slept soundly through the storm"; "is sound asleep" [syn: soundly]
sound
(verb)
1: appear in a certain way; "This sounds interesting"
2: make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" [syn: go]
3: give off a certain sound or sounds; "This record sounds scratchy"
4: announce by means of a sound; "sound the alarm"
5: utter with vibrating vocal chords [syn: voice, vocalize, vocalise] [ant: devoice]
6: cause to sound; "sound the bell"; "sound a certain note"
7: measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line [syn: fathom]