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According to WordNet, the noun "sound" has 8 sense(s).

105718254 the subjective sensation of hearing something; "he strained to hear the faint sounds".

107371293 the sudden occurrence of an audible event; "the sound awakened them".

109440186 a large ocean inlet or deep bay; "the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast".

104981139 the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause; "the sound of rain on the roof"; "the beautiful sound of music".

109446115 a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water.

111480930 mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium; "falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them".

106278136 the audible part of a transmitted signal; "they always raise the audio for commercials".

107111047 (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language.


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