What is the meaning of SOUNDS. Phrases containing SOUNDS
See meanings and uses of SOUNDS!Slangs & AI meanings
Something or someone you found particularly ugly/unsavoury/ horrible; e.g. "He is SO sweaty!". (sounds best when pronounced in braod Yorkshire accent (with silent 't').
Rerence to high murder rate. Sounds like Nigger
Underwater sounds detected by the sonar but created by sea life.
Sounds was mid−th century slang for tunes or music.
Queer (odd). I don't know about that - sounds a bit ginger.
2 of the more common sounds they make in their general street slang.
A finger covered in spit is forced into someone's ear and twisted. This sounds and feels disgusting to the victim. It was popularised in the UK following an episode of the Simpsons which showed Bart getting one.
Sounds like a monkeys name or implies stupidty.
Sounds like the word "black" said with a South African accent. http://imdb.com/title/tt0097733/
Dominicans used this term for Blacks because they look like "Coco"nuts and it sounds really African.
Noun. Tunes or music. E.g."Have you brought any new sounds for tonight's party."
Anybody else experice this insult-fad? The fingers of your hand are placed underneath the chin facing outwards, so your hand is kind of curved in a 'C' and your fingernails are resting under your chin... with a quick outwards flick and a highpitched 'WAAAAAAH' perfectly synchronized to create the ultimate insult. (ed: sounds a bit like the 'chinney-reck-on' thing?
Music
Good. That sounds like it's robin
To fight; "Look, they're about to throw hands!" (ed: gawd that sounds *so* camp! I can sort of see two guys standing waving their hands at each other!)
(ed: entered verbatim as I have no real idea what this is about - but it sounds almost sensible!) There is a "secret language" called Turkey-Irish. It is similar to Opish. For more details see http://members.tripod.com/quickbeam/merle/cipher.html If you want to delve deeper into this topic, go to http://www.deepfun.com/weblog/2002_12_11_blogger.html http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/issues/8/8-1570.html#1, http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0769354.html (includes a table of Double-Dutch equivalents), and http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/9073/66358 The etymology of the term Pig Latin is (I think)interesting. Of course, it has nothing to do with pigs. And nothing to do with Latin either, except that the derivation of the word Latin and the second half of Pig Latin are identical. Latin is simply the Semitic word LaSHoN = tongue, with the original dental-sound for the shin. Compare Ladino; and Lisan, the tongue of land that almost divides the Dead Sea into north and south parts. The "pig" in Pig Latin is related to Semitic peh-gimel-(heh) PaG(aH) = boy (or girl) before puberty. Compare English "page" = a boy servant or attendant, or the redundant "pageboy" haircut. There are a wide variety of children's languages. To the extent that they are designed to keep secrets from adults, they *must* change every generation.
Gas-electric car or other motorcar equipped with an air horn (which sounds like a fishmonger's horn)
general quarters--battle stations where military personnel are assigned to go ASAP when alarm sounds.
the tegument covering the back bone of a codfish on the inside (the sond bone). Sounds are often stripped off the bones when fish are split, salted and dried for food. Their textgure is tougher than the rest of the fish
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n.
A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever.
v. t.
To practice singing on the vowel sounds.
v. t.
To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
n.
A combination of three vowel sounds in a single syllable, forming a simple or compound sound; also, a union of three vowel characters, representing together a single sound; a trigraph; as, eye, -ieu in adieu, -eau in beau, are examples of triphthongs.
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Accordance of sounds; unison.
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The state of giving the proper, sound or sounds; just intonation; harmonious accordance; pitch of the voice or an instrument; adjustment of the parts of an instrument so as to harmonize with itself or with others; as, the piano, or the organ, is not in tune.
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Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, /poken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds.
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Of or pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of three vowel sounds pronounced together in a single syllable.
v. t.
To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin.
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Violent commotion or agitation, with confusion of sounds; as, the tumult of the elements.
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Unpleasing; unacceptable; disagreeable; as, harsh sounds are ungrateful to the ear.
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One who sounds a trumpet.
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A stringed instrument of music; a bass viol of four strings, or a bass violin with long, large strings, giving sounds an octave lower than the viola, or tenor or alto violin.
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Having no vowel sounds or signs.
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The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d
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The formation and utterance of vocal sounds.
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Identity in pitch; coincidence of sounds proceeding from an equality in the number of vibrations made in a given time by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves are also said to be in unison, or in octaves.
v. i.
To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.
n.
A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning.
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Of or pertaining to vowel sounds; consisting of the vowel sounds.
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